Drones and charter flights bring fresh fruit to consumers from Chongqing, China

Published Jul 13, 2024

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Wushan county in Chongqing, China, is using drones and chartered flights to transport Wushan crispy plums across the country, ensuring their freshness within 24 hours. The new transportation method involves drones carrying the plums from remote farms to the local airport, and chartered flights taking them to Nanjing for distribution to about 1,000 cities. This initiative is part of a collaboration between the local government and China Post to address transportation challenges and benefits over 60,000 local households. The new method, which reduces transportation time and costs, is expected to be expanded to other local special products.

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As the harvest season is around the corner for Wushan crispy plums — a specialty fruit in Wushan county of Chongqing — consumers across China can enjoy the freshness of the fruit within 24 hours thanks to a combination of drones and chartered flights. The new mode of transport involves using drones to carry plums from farms deep in the mountains to the local airport in the southwestern municipality, then flying them to Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province by chartered flights, from where they are distributed to about 1,000 cities. From July 2 to 20, China Post will allocate 15 Wushan-Nanjing China Postal Airlines chartered flights to carry about 225 metric tons of plums, according to the Chongqing Municipal Transportation Commission. "Our biggest selling point for Wushan crispy plums is their crispness, which requires high efficiency in transportation. If they arrive a day late, their taste will be significantly compromised," said Huang Quanpeng, director of the ...

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