Aeros

08/28/2026

One ship just paid more than $4 million to skip the line at the Panama Canal.

The canal is tightening draft limits again as a strengthening El Niño lowers water levels in Gatun Lake, and daily transit slots are set to shrink from September, dropping further through mid-September. Auction prices for jumping the queue have surged so high that carriers are paying record sums just to keep cargo moving on schedule.

This is one of the world's most critical trade chokepoints, and it's being squeezed by weather it can't control. When a fixed route like this tightens, the ripple effects reach nearly every supply chain that touches it.

It's a reminder of something bigger: as long as global logistics depends entirely on a handful of fixed waterways, ports, and canals, that dependency is also a vulnerability.

Airships are being developed to offer a way to move cargo that doesn't run through any of these chokepoints at all.

See how, live.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM EST
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/27/2026

Offshore wind's biggest bottleneck right now isn't turbines. It's ships.

As turbines get larger, the number of vessels capable of transporting and installing them is shrinking, not growing. At Breakbulk Europe this June, one carrier's CEO noted that six new heavy-lift vessels, each capable of about 500 tonnes of combined lifting capacity, are already contracted for years ahead, some booked a full year before delivery.

New vessel concepts are emerging to keep pace: designs built for foundations weighing up to 8,000 tonnes, and jack-up vessels marketed for turbines with rotor diameters exceeding 300 meters. But specialized vessels take years to build. One turbine installation vessel ordered in February 2026 won't be ready until the first half of 2028.

A handful of new ships doesn't resolve a shortage across an entire fleet category. The industry needs more ways to move these components, not just more of the same kind of ship.

Airship technology is being developed as one of those additional paths, moving large components without depending on vessel availability or fixed port infrastructure.

See how, live.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM EST
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

This session is for you if you work in wind turbine manufacturing and installation, project cargo, or heavy-lift logistics.

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/26/2026

Europe's rivers are running dry, and it's paralyzing supply chains.

The Rhine has hit record-low water levels this summer, breaking the historic 2018 drought record. Commercial barge operators are cutting cargo loads by as much as 80% to avoid running aground. A Maersk spokesperson told AFP that most Rhine inland ports can no longer be reached by barge at all.

The math is brutal. Chemical maker Covestro says it takes 60 trucks to replace the cargo capacity of a single barge carrying 1,500 metric tons. That's the scale of disruption when a fixed waterway simply stops working.

This isn't a one-off. It's a reminder that supply chains built entirely around fixed infrastructure, rivers, roads, ports, are only as reliable as that infrastructure allows.

Airships are being developed to offer another option, one that doesn't depend on water levels, road conditions, or port capacity at all.

See how, live.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM EST
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/25/2026

Here's what it takes to deliver cargo to a remote community with zero infrastructure, the traditional way: 🌀

Survey and map the route. Complete environmental reviews. Secure permits. Clear and grade the terrain. Build access roads, bridges, and crossings. Install drainage. Relocate utilities. Pave and reinforce for heavy freight.

And once it's built? It still needs maintaining for decades.

Or, deliver with Aeros.

Our electric Variable Buoyancy Aircraft (eVBAs) are designed to transport cargo directly to remote locations, without depending on roads, railways, airports, or ports at the destination. No years of construction. No decades of upkeep.

See how, live.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PT
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST · 12:30 PM IST · 3:00 PM CST

Featuring Aeros Founder & CEO Igor Pasternak, live.

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/24/2026

What does it actually take to get an aircraft FAA certified? For most companies building something entirely new, the answer is: years. 🌀

A Type Certificate confirms an aircraft design meets FAA airworthiness standards. A Production Certificate authorizes a manufacturer to build it under an FAA-approved quality system. Neither comes easily, and neither is just paperwork. Each represents years of engineering, testing, documentation, and regulatory review.

Aeros has been through this process, including for our variable-buoyancy technology. After successful testing of the Dragon Dream demonstrator, the FAA granted Aeros an Airworthiness Certificate for R&D, allowing continued flight testing.

That track record is part of more than three decades building and advancing lighter-than-air aircraft.

See where that experience is headed next.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PT
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST · 12:30 PM IST · 3:00 PM CST

Featuring Aeros Founder & CEO Igor Pasternak, live.

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/21/2026

Global vehicle demand is putting new pressure on an already constrained shipping network.

According to Wallenius Wilhelmsen, China exported more than 1 million vehicles in both June and July, an annualized pace exceeding 12 million vehicles. For context, China exported fewer than 1 million vehicles annually before the pandemic.

That growth is straining the world's specialized car-carrier fleet. Wallenius Wilhelmsen reports that its Asia departures are fully booked, forcing the company to prioritize customers as demand exceeds available vessel space.

The shortage is so severe that an estimated 2 million to 4 million vehicles per year are now being shipped in containers or through other alternatives, simply because pure car and truck carriers are unavailable. The company believes the true number may be closer to the high end of that range.

New vessels are coming, but not quickly enough to relieve the near-term pressure. The global car-carrier orderbook equals roughly 20% to 21% of the existing fleet, yet shipyard capacity is largely committed through 2029. Ships ordered today may not enter service until 2030 or later, while older vessels nearing 30 years of age could be retired, limiting how much net capacity actually reaches the market.

The impact is already visible in pricing. China-linked spot and time-charter rates rose sharply during the second quarter, and had reportedly climbed even further off their first-quarter lows by the time of Wallenius Wilhelmsen's earnings call.

This is more than a short-term shipping issue. It reflects a fundamental shift in global trade, and a reminder that supply chains remain dependent on fixed ports, vessel capacity, roads, rail, and traditional infrastructure.

As cargo volumes grow and disruptions continue, the industry needs more flexible ways to move goods where conventional infrastructure is limited, congested, or unavailable.

Join Aeros Founder & CEO Igor Pasternak for a live look at how airship technology is being developed to remove logistics constraints across the supply chain.

📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

This session is for you if you work in:
Freight forwarding & supply chain · Logistics, 3PL & last-mile operations · E-commerce & air cargo · Project cargo · Wind turbine manufacturing & installation · Government freight & transportation

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/20/2026

What happens when packages start arriving by air before your morning coffee is even ready? Amazon just gave us a preview. ☁️

The company is expanding Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. communities by the end of 2026, a sixfold jump from today's 11 locations, reaching roughly 30 million people. Its MK30 drones cruise at up to 73 mph, carry packages up to 5 pounds, and get many orders to the door in about an hour.

Speed expectations are shifting everywhere. Amazon says over 40% of its global items were delivered same day or overnight in just the first half of the year, and its 30-minute Amazon Now service is already live in more than 250 cities worldwide.

But here's the bigger question this raises: how do we move cargo when roads, ports, airports, and rail networks create the real constraints?

Drones are solving the ultra-fast, small-parcel problem. Airships are being developed for a different one entirely: moving much larger loads over long distances, without needing runways, ports, or fixed infrastructure at all.

See how, live.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

This session is for you if you work in freight forwarding, logistics, 3PL, e-commerce, air cargo, project cargo, wind energy, or government transportation.

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Full Name *FirstLastEmail Address *Company Name *Phone Number Job Title *Select the session you'd like to attend *--- Select Choice ---Session 1 - America (11:00 AM PT / 2:00...

08/19/2026

The Port of Los Angeles just logged its second-best July on record: 960,464 TEUs moved through, capping a seven-month stretch running 1.8% ahead of last year, even as trade policy keeps shifting under shippers' feet.

Businesses are moving cargo fast whenever conditions open up, squeezing through narrow windows in an unpredictable trade environment.

But those windows only exist because the whole system runs through the same fixed ports, trucks, and rail lines. One disruption, and it ripples through everyone's supply chain at once.

Airships change that equation: no ports, no runways, no fixed infrastructure required.

Join Aeros Founder & CEO Igor Pasternak for a live look at how airship technology is being developed to remove logistics constraints across the supply chain.

📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

This session is for you if you work in:
Freight forwarding & supply chain · Logistics, 3PL & last-mile operations · E-commerce & air cargo · Project cargo · Wind turbine manufacturing & installation · Government freight & transportation

Or you're simply exploring infrastructure-independent logistics.

Register here: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

08/17/2026

Floods, wildfires, and washed-out roads can cut off an entire region overnight. What happens to rural freight then? 🌀

Join our free live webinar to find out how airship technology could change the answer.

For government transportation agencies, connecting rural and remote areas creates a difficult tradeoff. Building roads, bridges, and freight infrastructure requires significant public investment and decades of maintenance. Yet limited access can restrict economic activity, emergency response, and the movement of critical goods, and the challenge gets even harder when disruptions cut off existing routes entirely.

What if improving freight access didn't always require building more infrastructure?

Aeros is developing electric Variable Buoyancy Aircraft (eVBAs) designed to move cargo without requiring roads, railways, airports, or ports at the destination. For public agencies, that could mean another option when building or restoring conventional infrastructure is too costly, slow, or impractical.

Join Founder & CEO Igor Pasternak for a live look at how airship technology is being developed to remove logistics constraints across the supply chain.

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🔹 Session 1 (Americas): 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
🔹 Session 2 (Global): 9:00 AM CEST (Europe) · 12:30 PM IST (India) · 3:00 PM CST (China)

Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Full Name *FirstLastEmail Address *Company Name *Phone Number Job Title *Select the session you'd like to attend *--- Select Choice ---Session 1 - America (11:00 AM PT / 2:00...

08/14/2026

When freight markets keep changing, flexibility becomes infrastructure.

The air cargo market is sending mixed signals.

According to Supply Chain Dive, global air cargo spot rates declined 6% month over month in July—but remained 28% higher than a year earlier at $3.12 per kilogram. At the same time, air cargo demand growth slowed to 4% year over year, while fuel volatility and changing trade flows continue to create uncertainty for the months ahead.

For supply-chain leaders, the larger message goes beyond any single month's freight rate.

Modern logistics networks are constantly balancing cost, capacity, speed, infrastructure, and access. When one route becomes constrained, cargo shifts to another. When fuel costs change, transportation economics change with them. And when conventional infrastructure cannot accommodate a shipment at all, the available options become even narrower.

That challenge becomes particularly significant for oversized and heavy cargo.

At Aeros, we're developing airship technology around a different principle: instead of continually adapting cargo to the limitations of existing transportation infrastructure, develop an aircraft capable of reducing dependence on that infrastructure in the first place.

The Aeroscraft® is being designed for infrastructure-independent logistics, with the ability to transport heavy and oversized cargo and load or unload directly at the point of need—without depending on conventional runways and with less reliance on traditional ground transportation networks.

As global logistics becomes more dynamic, the next competitive advantage may not simply be another route.

It may be the ability to operate where the route doesn't exist.

Join our upcoming live webinar

Airship Technology: Removing Logistics Constraints A New Approach to Heavy-Lift Delivery

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Session 1 — North America 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Session 2 — Global Europe (CEST): 9:00 AM India (IST): 12:30 PM China (CST): 3:00 PM

Learn how Aeros is approaching infrastructure-independent freight and the future of heavy-lift logistics. Register: https://aeroscraft.com/media-news-new/upcoming-webinars