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The baggage handling contract for Warsaw Chopin International Airport’s upgraded Departures and Arrivals system has been awarded to Daifuku’s Airport Baggage Handling (ABH) Division and specifically to Logan Teleflex France.

The BHS project is due to be fully operational by  2015 and is part of a wider development programme taking place at Warsaw, a modern international airport that has expanded and grown by over 400 per cent in the past 20 years.

Announcement by Daifuku ABH of the €7.5 million order for Warsaw, famous as the birthplace of composer, Frederic Chopin, is music to the ears of Logan Teleflex France and sister-company and equipment manufacturer and supplier, Logan Teleflex UK. This latest order follows in the wake of a number of BHS contract wins for the Division for projects in Europe, Africa, Middle East, China and Canada.

It is also yet another best choice selection for the Division’s next generation M700 RF Tilt Tray Sorter, which will be instrumental in helping Poland’s busiest airport to ramp up the sorting of baggage to meet the needs of passengers who have an increasingly wider choice of airlines and flight destinations. Warsaw accounts for just under 50 per cent of the country’s air traffic and operates 300 scheduled daily flights and an ever increasing number of charters.

The new Tilt Tray Sorter will work alongside an adjacent sorter in the main Terminal A complex and is expected to operational by mid 2014. Bags will feed into the M700RF system from48 check-in positions and the TTS will provide synchronised sortation and distribution of bags to an additional 29 destinations.

Bernard Magny of Logan Teleflex France said. “The baggage system will be a further demonstration of our ability to provide fast, efficient and reliable baggage throughput and sortation – from bag check-in right through to sorting of bags into destination chutes and make up of luggage for loading into aircraft holds.”

Overall, the Departures and Arrivals baggage system will also feature a variety of Daifuku and Logan manufactured bag handling equipment, including conveyors, VSU, Pushers and Fast Acting Ploughs along with SCADA/PLC controls and automation of bag throughput and the use of Logan’s Sort Allocation Computer (SAC) system.

Logan Teleflex France is working with QUMAK, a sub contractor on the project to global building and construction contractor, HOCHTIEF who are the main contractors to airport operator PPL, the Polish Airports State Enterprise.

The newest Model 700RF Tilt Tray Sorter is much in demand from airports around the globe and represents the most advanced sorter available today. Particular benefits for today’s modern airport requirements include an electrical tip action controlled via a radio frequency signalling system which permits unprecedented levels of control over baggage handling.