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Suggesting possible revenue streams, Musk proposed two sources of cash – sending cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station and launching satellites – both already part of SpaceX's business model.

In April, the Netherlands will hold the first trial of driverless semi-trucks at the port of Rotterdam, with the aim of sending cargo using autonomous road trains from Europe's biggest port throughout the continent by 2019.

While shippers have dreamed for centuries of sending cargo along Arctic routes — a huge shortcut compared with other long-distance sea routes — Pablo Clementhechief, the chief scientist at the National Ice Center, said the open water in the passages over Russia, particularly, remains clotted with thick, dangerous floes and can also close up in a matter of hours.

Estimates suggest that the cost of sending cargo into space could plummet to around $100 per kilogram.

SpaceX had previously shown Dragon V1, a smaller, unmanned version of this craft meant primarily for testing and, in a few cases, sending cargo back and forth to the International Space Station.

And the governments of Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco and Turkey have each pledged $1 million in aid, in addition to sending cargo planes filled with medical supplies, food, tents and blankets.

The programs were part of an effort to develop a reuseable launching vehicle that would operate more like an airplane, flying frequently, significantly cutting the cost of sending cargoes into space and improving safety.

Last year the company was given a $1.6 billion contract to send cargo to the space station.

Since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet last year, the agency has relied primarily on Russia to send cargo and astronauts up the space station and back.

A high-ranking East African official said Tuesday that the heavily militarized country of Eritrea, which borders Djibouti and Ethiopia, had sent cargo planes loaded with weapons for the Shabab to southern Somalia, an accusation Eritrea rejects.

Deep-sea carriers cannot provide such speedy transit times, said Sergei Jogov, a Russian spokesman for Woojin Global Logistics, a freight company based in Seoul that sends cargo from Pusan, Korea, to Finland via Vostochny.