Project · Aerospace · ICAO

eCargo.

A heavy-lift electric multirotor for the ICAO concept programme — an unmanned airframe that grips a standard ISO container and moves it between ship, quay and terminal without waiting for a crane.

About the project

Built around the box.

The shipping container is the fixed point of global logistics — every port, crane, chassis and hold is dimensioned around it. So the concept starts there: rather than designing a fuselage and asking what fits inside, the container is the fuselage, and the aircraft is a frame that clamps to it.

Twin booms carry distributed rotors outboard of the load, high enough to keep the discs clear of the box and far enough apart to give the control authority a slung mass demands. The airframe reads as structure, not bodywork — a cradle, a spine, and the propulsion hung where the moment arm wants it.

The operating picture is the argument: a terminal is a queue. Air lift moves the urgent box past the queue without rebuilding the port.

Renders

Ship to quay.

Three frames of the concept in port operations.

eCargo multirotor lifting a container alongside a container ship — **Alongside** Lifting a box off the stack with the hull filling the frame — the scale argument, made in one shot.

Several eCargo aircraft flying over a container port — **In numbers** Not one aircraft but a flight — the concept only pays as a fleet.

eCargo carrying a container over a container terminal — **Over the yard** Inbound across the stacks, container slung tight into the airframe.

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