“First Operational European Urban Vertiport” to be Constructed in Spanish City of Zaragoza

Last week, the Span­ish news web­site, www.europapress.es, report­ed that the first oper­a­tional Euro­pean urban air­port will be con­struct­ed in the Span­ish city of Zaragoza. The site says that the Zaragoza City Hall has set aside a 7,500 m² space in the city for an urban ver­ti­port to be co-devel­oped by Expo­dróni­ca under the umbrel­la of the SESAR JU “Deliv­er­ing the Dig­i­tal Euro­pean Sky” Project.

The arti­cle claims, “Zaragoza will become the first and only Euro­pean city to have, in an urban envi­ron­ment, a ver­ti­port con­struct­ed on a Green­field site, that will serve as a land­ing and take­off space for drones to deliv­er goods and trans­port peo­ple between dif­fer­ent points.” One of the first ser­vices is to be the devel­op­ment of a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal logis­tics air route with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Noval­tia.

It goes on, “The project will involve pri­vate agents with tech­nol­o­gy, cap­i­tal and inter­ests indus­tri­al and busi­ness for the accel­er­a­tion of new eco­nom­ic mod­els and the imple­men­ta­tion of a busi­ness mod­el and con­trol of infra­struc­tures and oper­a­tions for the ben­e­fit of the city.”

Zaragoza is the cap­i­tal city of the Zaragoza Province in Spain. It lies by the Ebro riv­er and its trib­u­taries, the Huer­va and the Gal­lego, in the cen­tre of both Aragon and the Ebro basin. It is the fifth most pop­u­lat­ed city in Spain with close to 675,000 peo­ple liv­ing on a land area of 376 sq.miles. Zaragoza host­ed a World Expo in 2008.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.sesarju.eu/

https://www.novaltia.es/en/

(News Source: www.europapress.es)

(Top image cred­it: City Coun­cil of Zaragoza)