Blimps back on airfreight agenda
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- Friday, 02 July 2010
Supporters say they would slot in to niche areas between high-speed airfreight and ships.
With a speed of around 125kph and much lower fuel costs than jets, plus carrying capacity many times that of a B747, it is believed blimps could in future carry much of current air freight.
One developer, UK-owned SkyCat, says it could carry twice the weight of strawberries of a standard cargo plane from Spain to the UK, with a 90 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Airships also don't need airports and can pick up and deliver from source to destination, supporters say, thus reducing the need for trucking goods to and from transport hubs.
