Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport recently released the second edition of its "Guidelines on the Effective Use of drones for luggage delivery", which is expected to clear the way for the industry to grow again.
In recent years, the global logistics industry has seen a rapid growth in demand, especially for express delivery and food distribution. Such a huge market demand, if all the use of manpower to complete, the cost will be very high, efficiency will be limited, the use of automatic management, cost reduction and efficiency become the inevitable direction of industry development.
In some areas where transportation is difficult, the advantages of drone logistics are obvious. For example, in island logistics, oil samples and material transportation between offshore drilling platforms, drones are safer, cheaper, and can operate 24 hours a day to improve work efficiency. Uav logistics also has great development potential in medical supplies and emergency medical supplies transportation, emergency rescue and other application scenarios.
In addition, in the context of intensified global action on climate change, the development of UAVs or VTOL vehicles is very much in line with the requirements of green environmental protection and contributes to the realization of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, as most of them are driven by pure electric or clean energy.
The development of drone logistics is expected to be further accelerated to help ease the strain on logistics networks, in the context of reduced aviation activity and increased shipping pressure in the wake of the pandemic. The pandemic has also made drones more useful in delivering blood, vaccines and medicine.
In the development of UAV logistics, China's major logistics, e-commerce, uav enterprises are also actively layout, gradually stepping into a high-speed development stage. Starting from 2021, China officially implemented the Postal industry standard of UAV Express Delivery Service, becoming China's first industrial standard of UAV express service, which is of great significance to promoting the development of Uav logistics in China.
