The most inefficient and slowest part of e-Commerce supply is Last mile delivery. Companies such as Amazon are investing heavily in advanced technologies associated with artificial intelligence, robots, drones etc. The idea of using a drone for a delivery method has begun with Amazon announcement in December 2013, delivery system designed to get packages to the customer end in less than 30 minutes using miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology, which is still in the prototype phase

Domino’s Pizzas want to use the DomiCopter to deliver its hot pizzas and Taobao marketplace an online customer to customer and ecommerce platform has trailing tea deliveries in China. As the drone delivery services market expands grows and grows, it is anticipated that the trend of out sourcing delivery services other businesses that own and operates a drone fleet.

At the moment, the drones are only at the development stage. The costs are so high because it's such a new technology and the limitation on carrying weights. Usually a drone can carry between 1 to 12 Kg. The delivery distance ranges up to maximum 12 to 15 kms. Battery technology is holding up the drone delivery services market. Drone delivery services players are increasingly focusing on making batteries cheaper and efficient.

The advantage of drone delivery services market is access in rural places. In countries like India and China, majority of the population still lives in rural part. Drones will provide access to remote areas. With the drone delivery services, the customer is not necessarily pre informed and wait for receiving his packages.

Drone Delivery Services Market: Regional outlook

The USA is expected to dominate the overall global drone delivery services market, followed by Western Europe. This is due to increasing investments, launching of new startups related to drone delivery services market. China, South Korea, and India are expected to drive the APEJ drone delivery services market.

Key players in the Drone Delivery Services Market:

Some of the players associated with the global drone delivery services market are SenseFly Ltd., Airware, Inc., DroneDeploy Inc., Sharper Shape Inc., Sky Futures Ltd., Cyberhawk Innovations Ltd., Aerobo, DroneCloud, Sentera, LLC, Agribotix LLC, Amazon.com, Inc., JD.com, Inc., Deutsche Post DHL and Others.

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