Comment / Market Insight: Heavy freight drones ready for take off

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The past two years have amply exposed a lack of resilience in the air cargo industry when faced with disruption. Restricted capacity led to extraordinarily high prices, causing most larger forwarders to secure their own capacity.

So, the news that a new aircraft is being developed which lowers operating costs by 60%, and increases volumes by the same percentage – while cutting emissions by one half – was always going to create a stir in the market, but whose development has ...