Grasshopper Air Mobility, Jetpak Sign MOU, Launch Collaboration “to Pioneer Drone-Based Express Deliveries in the Nordics”

Spain-based Grasshop­per Air Mobil­i­ty and Nordic region com­pa­ny, Jet­pak Group, announced this week they have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to inves­ti­gate the inte­gra­tion of autonomous aer­i­al logis­tics with Jetpak’s deliv­ery oper­a­tions, to improve and speed-up express trans­porta­tion solu­tions for Swe­den and the broad­er Nordic region, reports a press release.

This col­lab­o­ra­tion places Jet­pak “as the first express par­cel logis­tics com­pa­ny in Europe to part­ner with a heavy-pay­load eVTOL drone devel­op­er, adopt­ing the use of advanced air mobil­i­ty for rapid, point-to-point deliv­er­ies in both urban and rur­al con­texts,” explains the release. 

It con­tin­ues, “The part­ner­ship aims to unlock new effi­cien­cies in the express logis­tics sec­tor, expand­ing Jetpak’s last-mile capa­bil­i­ties through high-speed aer­i­al access while reduc­ing deliv­ery cost, ground con­ges­tion and car­bon emis­sions.”

Jet­pak, known for its same-day, door-to-door deliv­ery ser­vices in over 170 loca­tions across the Nordics and Europe, offers decades of expe­ri­ence in mul­ti­modal logis­tics and oper­a­tional excel­lence.

Mean­while, with its HQ in Barcelona, Grasshop­per con­tributes cut­ting-edge drone tech­nol­o­gy such as its “fly­ing car­go van” tech­nol­o­gy, com­bin­ing long-range flight up to 600 km with autonomous ground mobil­i­ty to deliv­er car­go weigh­ing as much as 350 kg direct­ly into ware­hous­es, ter­mi­nals and cus­tomer access points with­out requir­ing han­dovers or spe­cialised infra­struc­ture.

Jakob Saal­frank, CEO of Grasshop­per Air Mobil­i­ty, com­ment­ed, “The beau­ty of this col­lab­o­ra­tion is that we’re going to devel­op solu­tions to grow the econ­o­my. Togeth­er, we want to push the bound­aries of what’s pos­si­ble in express deliv­ery and build a more effi­cient and acces­si­ble aer­i­al logis­tics lay­er.”

He con­tin­ued, “Apply­ing long-dis­tance heavy-car­go AAM for pack­age deliv­ery in Swe­den is a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty for Europe to pio­neer and take a lead in a crit­i­cal indus­try of the future.”

The part­ner­ship will focus on assess­ing deliv­ery mis­sion pro­files, out­lin­ing infra­struc­ture require­ments, col­lab­o­rat­ing on reg­u­la­to­ry frame­works, defin­ing prod­uct spec­i­fi­ca­tions and tech­ni­cal needs for oper­a­tional inte­gra­tion, as well as pur­su­ing pilot projects, pub­lic fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and joint prod­uct devel­op­ment ini­tia­tives.

Jakob Saal­frank

The release con­cludes, “This agree­ment marks a land­mark step in shap­ing Europe’s low-alti­tude econ­o­my and opens the door to a new cat­e­go­ry of autonomous express deliv­ery. The two com­pa­nies are set­ting the foun­da­tion for a resilient, fast, and sus­tain­able logis­tics lay­er fit for the 2030s and beyond.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.grasshopperairmobility.com

www.jetpak.com 

(Images: Grasshop­per Air Mobil­i­ty)

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