Economy
Monday 09 May 2016
Some people like it might happen in the future: packets arrive in the shortest possible time by drone. The German Post now announced an achievement in practical tests in Bavaria.
After initial difficulties, it is Deutsche Post DHL claims to have succeeded as the world’s first supplier to integrate customers directly into the delivery of packets per drone. From January to March have the sender and addressee of the packing station SkyPort in Upper Bavaria Reit im Winkl ship packages via drone and can receive, DHL announced in Bonn with.
At 130 independent loading and unloading also had higher loads, longer distances and the delivery of a mountain region have been successfully tested under difficult conditions by drone, the report said. From the valley to the mountain pasture at 1200m the package drone mused DHL each way a distance of eight kilometers back.
More about“piece drugs or short-run sports were able to come in just eight minutes,” told the Post. “We are the world’s first that can use a transport drone for an end-user access,” said DHL CEO Frank Appel. In the coming months the company will evaluate the data collected and then decide on possible further test areas.
With the drone, the Post will deliver parcels, especially in sparsely populated areas from the air to a pack station. Test flights there as early as 2013 over the Rhine in Bonn and 2014 in the North Sea. The German Post DHL Group, to the DHL, employs claims to world around 500,000 people and generated 2015 sales of almost 60 billion euros.
Also, the world’s largest online retailer Amazon has been working for years with the Theme. Google developed small aircraft, the goods can let down on a rope. In the US, also thinks the supermarket giant Wal-Mart to over drone deliveries.
Source: n-tv.de
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