(Teleborsa) – New baggage handling system at the Leonardo da Vinci airport in Fiumicino. Consisting of two control and management complexes, the BHS (Baggage Handling System) and the HBS (Hold Baggage Screening), it is one of the most extensive and sophisticated systems in Europe, capable of handling both departing baggage, both those in transit. Operations which, as a rule, until now were performed separately.
The first sorting ring, currently about 400 meters long, will strengthen the efficiency and safety of the approximately 20.000 bags that depart every day, as announced by an Adr, the company Aeroporti di Roma that manages the Fiumicino and Ciampino airports. or pass through Fiumicino. By next November, a further 7.100 meters of belt will become operational, which will allow the handling of over 6.000 bags per hour, at peak times. The entire plant occupies an area of 25.000 mXNUMX.
The new system is based on an innovative technological infrastructure which takes charge of the baggage the moment it is accepted at check-in and allows ADR operators to constantly follow its path remotely, up to the moment of delivery to the reference handler of the airline. The security check technology is also particularly advanced, based on successive levels of verification, capable of combining the automatic X-ray analysis of the baggage with visual inspection by the operator, to whom the machine makes a high-resolution 3D image available resolution.
The new equipment, and the cross-checking procedure, allow a thorough examination of the baggage, without slowing down the sorting times. Once the automated process has finished, the baggage will arrive directly at the airline handlers at 32 stalls, each of which will be connected to a departing flight.
The introduction of the new outgoing and transit baggage handling system, together with the new handling set-up launched last May for the treatment of incoming baggage and ramp services, is a further step forward on the road to quality services to the passenger, strongly pursued by the manager Aeroporti di Roma and by the parent company Atlantia.
Aeroporti di Roma, a company of the Atlantia Group, in addition to managing and developing Rome's Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, carries out other activities connected and complementary to airport management. Fiumicino operates through four passenger terminals: it is dedicated to business and leisure customers on national, international and intercontinental routes; Ciampino is mainly used by low-cost airlines, express-couriers and general aviation businesses. In 2015 ADR registered, as an airport system, over 46 million passengers with 240 destinations in the world that can be reached from Rome, thanks to the approximately 100 airlines operating in the two airports.
