It’s typically been stated that the way forward for ecommerce deliveries is drone supply, however the future is now in Iceland, with the fortunate residents of Reykjavik, the nation’s capital now with the ability to take pleasure in a full drone supply service that may ship them meals equivalent to sushi, hamburgers and even beer.
The brand new service comes from a partnership between the main Israeli drone logistics firm Flytrex and Iceland’s largest ecommerce firm AHA. The brand new Icelandic drone supply program will see an individual place the products within the drone, lock it in place for flight after which merely ship it on its manner. When the drone reaches its vacation spot, it touches down the place one other supply individual is there to gather the order after which drive it to its remaining vacation spot.
This can be a lot extra environment friendly as the traditional path {that a} supply driver must take to achieve the identical location is a winding one on Iceland’s roads and will take half an hour for instance. The identical journey with a drone nevertheless takes as little as 4 minutes, with the ability to go ‘because the crow flies’ on a way more direct route. AHA expects that they are going to begin with roughly 20 deliveries a day this manner, the one necessities being that the bundle being flown by drone must be lighter than six kilos.
Not like another drone supply companies which have been trialled, this isn’t a door-to-door drone supply program however that’s one thing that the partnership between Flytrex and AHA shall be sooner or later in addition to delivering internationally. Maron Kristófersson CEO of AHA says:
“Within the latest months there was an incredible enhance in our on-line supply orders, particularly within the retail merchandise and we’re forecasting a really expedited progress within the grocery deliveries within the coming months.Over the past 4 years we’ve been monitoring on-line supply resolution applied sciences across the globe, and really feel that Flytrex has a wise, protected and commercially viable resolution to the issue. We hope to co-operate with them not solely in Iceland, but in addition internationally sooner or later.”
Amazon Drone Supply
AHA isn’t the one ecommerce platform experimenting with drone deliveries. Amazon, in addition to trialling drone deliveries within the UK has additionally lately utilized for a patent for “multi-level fulfilment facilities” that may accommodate the touchdown and takeoff of drones in dense city settings.
These can be vertical drone centres formed like big beehives within the centre of downtown metropolis districts throughout the USA that may assist the retailer obtain swift and environment friendly deliveries by drones.
