ADLC shows how petroleum samples can be safely transported by cargo drone from terminal to mainland in Singapore

𝗢𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁, 𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗖 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 (𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵) 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘂 𝗦𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗸: roughly 13 km each way, in both directions, exactly as the route would run in daily operations.

𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗱 : The payload class. Our PW.ORCA carries up to 15 kg in a 96-litre bay, roughly three times the payload demonstrated in earlier Singapore maritime drone trials with an endurance of 50km. The origin. This is the first time a commercial mission profile has been flown out of a specially protected petroleum island in Singapore, under the country's first and only CAAS permit covering such BVLOS operations.

"We chose Singapore because it is the hardest version of this problem" said Arthur Baeyens, Managing Director APAC. "If a sample logistics operation can be trusted here, in the world's busiest bunkering hub, in front of the people who actually run it, it can be trusted anywhere."

Regulators, terminal operators, surveyors and shipping companies, including Columbia Shipmanagement, Wilhelmsen group, PSA Singapore, and Advario, watched the exact procedure a live petroleum cargo sample would follow: drawn and sealed at the terminal by staff on the terminal, packed into a certified dangerous-goods container, flown BVLOS with live tracking shared with the authorities, then handed to the laboratory courier under unbroken chain of custody.

Singapore is our first APAC deployment, built on the same terminal-to-laboratory model already running daily commercial operations in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. It will not be the last.

We are very proud of all our partners and supporters that made this demonstration a reality.