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Iina cargo12/30/2023 ![]() Zipline is the trusted partner for governments, global brands and leading health care systems. We design, manufacture and operate the world’s largest automated on-demand delivery service, which to date has made more than 275,000 commercial deliveries containing more than 5 million units of vaccines and other medical products, reducing delivery emissions by up to 98% compared to traditional methods. Our purpose is to inspire possibility, transform systems and serve all people equally. Zipline is the global instant logistics leader. The companies have also partnered in Ghana, where Zipline delivers medical products from Gokals-Laborex Limited-Toyota Tsusho Group’s pharmaceutical distributor-to hospitals across the country. Today’s launch is the culmination of a longstanding partnership between Toyota Tsusho and Zipline, which began with Toyota Tsusho’s investment in Zipline in June 2018. When compared to conventional deliveries via car or van, Zipline’s autonomous aircraft have been shown to produce 98% less carbon emissions. Toyota Tsusho’s new sustainable on-demand delivery service in the Gotō Islands builds on Japan’s commitment to sustainability. “Together, we’re taking an important step toward unlocking the impact of autonomous instant logistics technology in new use cases, new airspaces and entirely new geographies.” “The Toyota Group has a decades-long track record of excellence across transportation and logistics now, they’re ready to take on the next frontier of mobility,” said Keller Rinaudo, co-founder and CEO of Zipline. ![]() The partnership also has the potential to expand to both new communities and use cases in the future. Initial autonomous aerial deliveries will include beyond visual line of site operations up to 40 kilometers roundtrip, and enable on-demand access to hundreds of medical products. Utilizing Zipline’s autonomous aircraft and end-to-end logistics technology, Sora-iina will distribute medical supplies to pharmacies and hospitals across the Gotō Islands, including to remote and isolated areas. Sora-iina’s Gotō distribution center will be the first in Asia and 14th in the world to operate Zipline’s autonomous instant logistics technology, as well as the first in the world to be operated by a partner. This marks Zipline’s entry into Japan and its first-ever strategic operational partnership, in which Toyota Tsusho, via Sora-iina, a new subsidiary company created to conduct these operations, will manage its own distribution center and flight services from Fukue Port. Under this partnership, Toyota Tsusho is using Zipline’s instant logistics system to make routine, commercial long-distance drone deliveries in Japan. Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho), one of Japan’s general trading companies and a member of the Toyota Group, and Zipline, the global leader in instant logistics, today launched automated, on-demand deliveries of medical supplies across Japan’s Gotō Islands.
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