Wingcopter partners with Continental Drones

Continental Drones is a subsidiary of Atlantic Trust Holding, a private investment holding company with twin headquarters in Ghana and the UAE.

The partners aim deploy 12,000 Wingcopter 198 electric logistics drones in the region over the next five years, aiming to ‘dramatically improve the reliability and efficiency of existing supply chains’ and ‘create completely new ones’.

A key focus of the partnership will be the delivery of ‘on-demand delivery of medicines, vaccines, or laboratory samples, but also essential goods’, with Wingcopter sayinig: “In many African regions, insufficient infrastructure is one of the biggest barriers to universal health coverage and economic development.”

The statement continued: “Bridging the infrastructure gap through the deployment … drones, even in the most remote places, will allow governments and the private sector to leapfrog inefficient infrastructure to climate-neutral, reliable, and fast logistic capabilities.”

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“With our longstanding business experience on the ground and Wingcopter’s best-in-class drone technology, these networks offer a real chance to fuel economic development and help improve the livelihood of millions,” said Alexander Asiedu, Chairman of Atlantic Trust Holding and Founder of Continental Drones.

“We are convinced that our cooperation with Alex and his Continental Drones team will unlock the African drone delivery market on a large scale, allowing us to jointly improve and save millions of lives,” added Tom Plümmer, Co-Founder and CEO of Wingcopter.

It follows the announcement of a similar partnerships between Wingcopter and South American holding company UAV LATAM in February 2022, and Air Methods subsidiary Spright in January 2022, for the provision of drone-based delivery services in the Peruvian Andes and the rural US respectively.