Baggage Handling Systems at Airports

VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES WINS BAGGAGE HANDLING CONTRACT

Vanderlande Industries has won the contract to supply a new baggage handling system for Brazil’s São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport. This is the country’s busiest airport, handling almost 33 million passengers in 2012, with ambitious growth plans to take that number up to 60 million by 2022. Work on-site will start in August 2013 and the project is scheduled to be completed in April 2014, in time for the 2014 FIFA World Cup BrazilTM.

The order was awarded to Vanderlande Industries by Consórcio Invepar-ACSA, comprising Brazilian infrastructure investor Invepar and Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), which has obtained a 20-year concession to operate the airport. The consortium chose Vanderlande Industries because of the company’s proven track record with baggage handling projects in Brazil as well as other countries in South America.

Local presence in Brazil
This new order underlines Vanderlande Industries’ strong focus on long-term customer partnerships, with a shared commitment to continuous performance improvement and cost optimisation. This is especially relevant in strong growth markets such as Brazil, where airports are faced with constantly increasing demands in terms of both capacity and performance. To ensure optimum response to airport needs, Vanderlande has a local presence in Brazil, with a base in São Paulo. It has strong links with local partners for system installation and operation, together with its own service and maintenance team.

Full system redundancy ensures uninterrupted operations
The new baggage handling system will have three check-in islands with 72 check-in positions and one re‑check-in for transfer passengers. Sorting of baggage is by 2 HELIXORTER tilt tray sorters with 24 destinations. Full system redundancy ensures uninterrupted operations can continue in case of any fault or during routine maintenance. Early baggage arrivals are handled by a lane-based Early Bag Store with 1,000 positions and 500 manual storage positions, allowing bags to be called forward rapidly when needed for flight make-up. Security screening meets the latest standards with five Level 1 and two Level 3 screening machines. Arrivals bags are handled by seven tilted TRIPLANAR carousels. Overall control is by Vanderlande’s integrated VIBES software suite offering full operational management, process control and performance reporting functions.  

For more information please contact:
Vanderlande Industries
Ariane Schipper, Communications Baggage Handling, tel. +31 (0)413 49 56 03
e-mail: ariane.schipper@vanderlande.com
www.vanderlande.com

Profile of Vanderlande Industries
Vanderlande Industries provides automated material handling systems and services. The company is active in the markets for Baggage Handling at airports, Warehouse Automation and sorting solutions in Parcel & Postal facilities. The company implements material handling systems of all sizes, ranging from local sorting depots, airports and distribution centres to the world’s largest facilities. Vanderlande has sales of EUR 565 million and employs 2 347 people of whom more than 55% have a college or university degree.

Its systems and services focus on improving customers’ business processes and increasing their logistics performance today, tomorrow and throughout the entire life cycle. The company strives for close cooperation with the customer, extending from initial analysis of the underlying business processes through to total life-cycle support.

To achieve this, the company has a wide product range and industry knowledge, and possesses capabilities in the relevant disciplines. These range from system design and engineering, through supply chain management and manufacturing, to logistics software technology, system integration, project management and customer services.

Vanderlande Industries is a global player with extensive experience in many industries and references in all regions of the world. It operates locally through Customer Centres that handle all key business functions and maintain direct contacts with customers.