Operational authorisation was given for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) automated drone flights to take place on a daily basis in the Antwerp port area, reportedly a first in the world.<\/p>\n
The port authority said the \u2018approval signifies the start of an operational drone network\u2019.<\/p>\n
The approval was underlined by the visit of key representatives of European and national regulatory authorities related to drone aviation including European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Eurocontrol, FPS Mobility and Transport, Skeyes and the general directorate of civil aviation.<\/p>\n
During the visit they witnessed the first authorised flight of a BVLOS drone near the Kieldrecht lock, operated from a command and control centre located in the middle of the port.<\/p>\n
The operational authorisation is built around a new BVLOS framework (also known as pre-Uspace airspace) built by Skeydrone and approved by the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority and EASA as a legitimate and safe framework for BVLOS flights.<\/p>\n
With the approval in place, plans are in train to launch the D-Hive network of automated drones in the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium together with partners Dronematrix, Skeydrone and Proximus has been given the green light to launch its drone in a D-Hive box network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,15,64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-europe","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}