The delivery division of UK drone services and advanced air mobility infrastructure company Skyports has been selected to operate aerial distribution routes between Scotland’s Orkney islands for the national postal company, Royal Mail.

Skyports Drone Services will be launching the Orkney I-Port drone delivery project for Royal Mail during an initial three-month trial period in the coming weeks and hopes to extend it permanently from there. The pilot phase is being partially underwritten by a grant from the UK Department for Transport’s Freight Innovation Fund, which earlier this week selected Skyport’s proposal for the new, sustainable approach to cargo transportation across the chain.

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Under the plan, Skyports will oversee the interisland distribution of Royal Mail letters and parcels flown to Orkney’s main postal facility in Kirkwall. In doing…

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Source: dronedj.com