Taiwan Already Has 24 Drone Logistics Corridors — It Didn't Take the Wait-for-Regulation Route
I assumed Taiwan had no real drone logistics because it has no BVLOS framework. Wrong: the CAA has approved 10 cases across 24 flight corridors, and the Institute of Transportation has run a six-year PoC → PoS → PoB path since 2020, entering commercial validation in 2025. The way it routes around regulation is the mirror image of inspection — inspection cuts work down to within visual line of sight, logistics gets corridors approved one at a time. And its value isn't being cheaper than a boat: during the typhoon sailing suspensions at Liuqiu, a drone made the crossing in a bit over ten minutes, which is what you have when the boats don't run.