Watch Video: Singapore F‑Drones Announces Agreement with Hafnia Tankers for Maritime delivery

While Sin­ga­pore and its sur­round is tout­ed as a future glob­al leader of eVTOL oper­a­tions, drone deliv­ery is very much on the ascen­dan­cy too in the region.

F‑Drones is, per­haps, the best known with­in the deliv­ery sec­tor, where it began tri­als back in 2020, suc­cess­ful­ly trans­port­ing goods to large ships and ves­sels docked in local waters.

Oper­at­ing drones across large stretch­es of water is a lot safer than over con­gest­ed pub­lic areas and why reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies are more open to offer­ing Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) com­mer­cial cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

The lat­est news is that Sin­ga­pore-based tanker own­er and oper­a­tor Haf­nia has entered into an agree­ment with F‑Drones to use its craft for the deliv­ery of goods to the company’s ves­sels after tri­als using more a improved drone called the Hyper­copter that can car­ry pay­loads of up to 10kg and fly over 30km.

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A Haf­nia spokesper­son said, “F‑drones will enable us to rely less on the use of boats to deliv­er small­er loads to ves­sels, and there­by reduce CO2 emis­sions with every trip.”

Nico­las Ang, CEO of F‑Drones, added, “The tra­di­tion­al means of trans­port are expen­sive, slow, labour and car­bon inten­sive. Our solu­tions can help save up to 80 per­cent of the costs, time and CO2 emis­sions.”

The deal builds on the joint tests car­ried out in Sin­ga­pore two years ago, when Haf­nia used F‑drones to deliv­er goods to its ves­sels anchored close by. The com­pa­ny co-oper­at­ed with both East­ern Pacif­ic Ship­ping and F‑drones to enable the first deliv­er­ies to and from a laden tanker.

The craft deliv­ered impor­tant main engine spare parts to crude oil tanker, Lev­an­tine Sea, while return­ing two bot­tles of bunker sam­ples ashore. The bunker sam­ples were then sent to Viswa Lab for analy­sis.

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