Fly­ing ships are com­ing to our shores af­ter Ramps Lo­gis­tics signed a let­ter of in­tent to bring the ves­sels to the re­gion.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, Ramps con­firmed it en­tered in­to a deal with Fly­ing Ship Tech­nolo­gies Cor­po­ra­tion to in­tro­duce un­manned au­tonomous, eco-friend­ly, wing-in-ground-ef­fect ves­sels, or fly­ing ships”, to the Caribbean and South Amer­i­ca.

Ramps Lo­gis­tics said its adop­tion of fly­ing ships’ ad­vanced wing-in-ground-ef­fect ves­sels would prove a piv­otal move to­wards eco-friend­ly and ef­fi­cient ship­ping.

The com­pa­ny said, “This in­no­v­a­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion will rev­o­lu­tionise ship­ping in the re­gion by de­creas­ing ves­sel costs, sig­nif­i­cant­ly cut­ting ship­ping time, and re­duc­ing our car­bon foot­print.”

The re­lease con­tin­ued, “Ramps Lo­gis­tics is a tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven com­pa­ny, al­ways search­ing for in­no­v­a­tive ways to rev­o­lu­tionise lo­gis­tics process­es. The com­pa­ny is tak­ing steps to con­nect the Caribbean and South Amer­i­can coun­tries like nev­er be­fore, lever­ag­ing the prox­im­i­ty of these na­tions to fa­cil­i­tate small­er de­mands for ship­ping. This col­lab­o­ra­tion beck­ons a new era in lo­gis­tics and sup­ports Cari­com’s agen­da to make the trade of goods with­in the re­gion more ac­ces­si­ble.”

CEO of Ramps Lo­gis­tics, Shaun Ram­per­sad, said, “This project will be crit­i­cal to con­nect­ing the Caribbean and South Amer­i­ca by fa­cil­i­tat­ing the move­ment of com­modi­ties, bridg­ing the gap with­in CARI­COM.” He added, “The Fly­ing Ships will sig­nif­i­cant­ly cut costs and ship­ping times, with the ves­sels be­ing ten times faster than boats and one-quar­ter of the cost to main­tain and op­er­ate com­pared to planes.”

Bill Pe­ter­son, CEO of Fly­ing Ships said, “Ramps Lo­gis­tics is go­ing to cre­ate a high-speed dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work us­ing fly­ing ships across the Cari­com that will en­able de­liv­ery van-sized pay­loads to vir­tu­al­ly any­where with a coast­line. As a dis­rup­tive pi­o­neer, they are one of the first adopters of our rev­o­lu­tion­ary ca­pa­bil­i­ty. Their for­ward lean­ing com­pa­ny en­vi­sions a fu­ture with a thriv­ing, in­ter­na­tion­al­ly con­nect­ed econ­o­my across the Caribbean and Amer­i­c­as.”

The re­lease stat­ed, “These ‘fly­ing ships’, which fly close to the sur­face, use less fu­el and of­fer faster speeds. Com­bined with au­tonomous fea­tures, they promise en­hanced ship­ment ef­fi­cien­cy and re­duced hu­man er­rors. As glob­al mar­kets de­mand quick­er and more eco-friend­ly de­liv­ery meth­ods, this part­ner­ship demon­strates a com­mit­ment to stay­ing ahead of the curve and lead­ing the way in sus­tain­able, fast-paced lo­gis­tics.”

The com­pa­ny said its col­lab­o­ra­tion with Fly­ing Ship Tech­nolo­gies Cor­po­ra­tion would her­ald a new era in Log-tech (lo­gis­tics tech­nol­o­gy), fo­cus­ing on in­no­va­tion, ef­fi­cien­cy, and sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

Born from dis­cus­sions at the Caribbean In­vest­ment Fo­rum (CIF) 2022, this part­ner­ship was an­nounced at CIF 2023. Be­yond re­in­forc­ing the unit­ed ob­jec­tives of both en­ti­ties, this al­liance of­fers an in­spir­ing look in­to a fu­ture where ad­vanced lo­gis­tics tech­nol­o­gy and en­vi­ron­men­tal con­scious­ness merge.