Skyports teams up with Swoop Aero to provide medical delivery services via drone across the UK

Sky­ports has part­nered with drone-pow­ered health logis­tics com­pa­ny Swoop Aero to pro­vide a deliv­ery ser­vice across the UK and trans­port essen­tial med­ical sup­plies to remote areas for the NHS. 

With hos­pi­tal staff at capac­i­ty because of the ongo­ing Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, deliv­er­ies of sup­plies have become essen­tial to the pro­vi­sion of basic health­care. With the sup­port of the Swoop Aero plat­form, Sky­ports’ on-demand ser­vice will allow the trans­port of high-val­ue, per­ish­able car­go such as vac­cines, med­i­cines and pathol­o­gy sam­ples. 

Dun­can Walk­er, CEO of Sky­ports, said: “There is a huge oppor­tu­ni­ty for drone deliv­ery ser­vices in the UK — now more than ever. The demand for deliv­ered goods is increas­ing and our ser­vice will sup­port a wider net­work of hos­pi­tals and med­ical prac­tices as they con­tin­ue to respond the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. 

“We want more health­care facil­i­ties to ben­e­fit from our ser­vice over the long term and the addi­tion of the Swoop Aero plat­form enables us to expand our offer­ing nation­wide.

Sky­ports spe­cialis­es in oper­at­ing end-to-end drone deliv­er­ies with­in the med­ical, e‑commerce, and logis­tics sec­tors and is already con­duct­ing med­ical drone deliv­er­ies to assist the NHS in Scot­land in the bat­tle against COVID-19. It will be expand­ing its ser­vice in the com­ing months.

Sky­ports is also help­ing Roy­al Mail to deliv­er to the most remote parts of the UK. The Swoop Aero plat­form is the lat­est to join Sky­ports’ grow­ing fleet of world-lead­ing unmanned air­craft.

Addi­tion­al­ly, Sky­ports is also work­ing with the eVTOL air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers around the world to secure, design, build, own and oper­ate ver­ti­ports — enabling safe and effi­cient flight oper­a­tions with­in urban and sub­ur­ban envi­ron­ments.

Swoop Aero is a drone-pow­ered logis­tics com­pa­ny with estab­lished oper­a­tions in five coun­tries through­out Africa and the Pacif­ic. The com­pa­ny offers a sophis­ti­cat­ed drone tech­nol­o­gy plat­form which cov­ers the full suite of autonomous avi­a­tion ser­vices.

For Sky­ports, this includes oper­a­tions and mis­sion man­age­ment, soft­ware and hand­shake inte­gra­tion with exist­ing logis­tics man­age­ment sys­tems, ground con­trol, air­craft and hard­ware.

Swoop Aero CEO Eric Peck said: “The Swoop Aero part­ner­ship mod­el was designed to give organ­i­sa­tions access to our com­pre­hen­sive drone tech­nol­o­gy plat­form, and we are thrilled that we can enable Sky­ports to ser­vice those most in need dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. This approach is what makes us unique and we’re proud that our tech­nol­o­gy is deliv­er­ing bet­ter health out­comes at this all- impor­tant time.”