Abstract: Intelligent Water Transport has become one of the important areas of modern waterway transport re-search.This paper presents a review of the symposium of Intelligent Water Transport in conjunction with the 10 th annual meeting of China ITS.The recent developments of Intelligent Water Transport are summarized and discussed,which in-clude security technology of polar navigation,intelligent service system of inland waterway,intelligent water transport, resources management of ports and marine electric propulsion system.The intelligent ship,information communication technology (ICT)and connected ships are also identified as the highlighted trends of intelligent water transportation areas and their perspective are also presented.