China's JD.com Pitches Trudeau on Drone Fleets to Airlift Seafood
SEFOODNEWS.COM [The Globe and Mail] by NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE - December 6, 2017
You might call it the Flying Lobster – or maybe Brisk Bisque.
One of China's biggest online companies wants to deploy a fleet of drones in Canada to airlift seafood from East Coast processing plants to the airport, cutting out land-haul costs in its bid to deliver more Atlantic lobsters, prawns and clams to Chinese consumers.
JD.com is also developing plans for a drone network for the Canadian West Coast that could be used to carry local blueberries to cargo aircraft headed for China. It wants to replicate plans for similar drone networks in China, where it believes unmanned aircraft can slash logistics costs by 50 to 70 per cent, CEO Richard...
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