Jumia Technologies recently partnered with drone delivery startup “Zipline” to deliver items to several African countries, including Morocco.
Having products ordered on the internet delivered to your home by drone will soon be possible in Morocco thanks to Zipline and Jumia. The initiative aims to make automated and on-demand deliveries for e-commerce.
Jumia, already present in the Kingdom, and Zipline, the largest instant delivery service provider in the world, have just announced a collaboration in this direction. A pilot program and trials were launched a few months ago in Ghana. This collaboration will integrate Zipline’s automated and on-demand delivery system with Jumia’s current distribution network which includes more than 30 warehouses and more than 3,000 collection points, spread across Jumia’s market in 11 countries.
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It will have the advantage of allowing consumers to have the products they want delivered instantly and on demand, exactly when they want to receive them, and this, in the comfort of their home, according to the two partners.
According to the African Amazon and its American partner, a first test was carried out in different situations, with various products. This test made it possible to travel up to 2,500 km. Deliveries to remote centers of Jumia, located up to 85 km from the take-off location of Zipline’s operations center in Omenako (Ghana) were made in less than an hour, and all stakeholders involved in the delivery process delivery were able to see the drone in real time. Eventually, the project should be extended to Morocco, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Cameroon and Uganda.