Amazon's caller MK30 Prime Air drone is displayed during Amazon's "Delivering the Future" lawsuit astatine the company's BFI1 Fulfillment Center, Robotics Research and Development Hub successful Sumner, Washington connected Oct. 18, 2023.
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Amazon said connected Sunday it has decided not to pursue plans to present goods by drone in Italy, saying that while it had made bully advancement with aerospace regulators, broader concern regulatory issues did not enactment the project.
The Italian civilian aviation ENAC called the determination unexpected, saying successful a connection on Saturday the determination was motivated by institution policy, linked to "recent fiscal events involving the Group."
The institution had announced successful December 2024 the palmy completion of archetypal tests of transportation drones successful San Salvo, a municipality successful the cardinal Abruzzo region.
In a connection to Reuters connected Sunday, Amazon said:
"Following a strategical review, we person decided to halt our commercialized drone transportation plans successful Italy".
"Despite affirmative engagement and advancement with Italian aerospace regulators, the broader concern regulatory model successful the state does not, astatine this time, enactment our longer-term objectives for this program," Amazon added.
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