Veghel - Vanderlande Industries, supplier of automated baggage handling systems, is proud to announce it has been awarded the contract for the baggage handling system of Sochi International Airport Terminal. The contract of over € 7 million will give the airport the capacity to handle the growing number of passengers in their existing terminal. Sochi is the largest of four Airports in the South of Russia that will be renovated in the coming years in order to prepare for the Winter Olympics of 2014. Gelendjik Airport is already being equipped with Vanderlande Industries baggage handling equipment.
The system will consist of 3 modules. 2 Modules will be used for domestic passengers, 1 for international passengers. The domestic modules each consist of 19 check-in desks and inline automatic level 1, 2 and level 3 screening. The international module will consist of 12 check-in desks and will also have fully automatic inline screening for levels 1-3, as well as an integrated customs facility. All screened bags which are security cleared will be transported to a tilted TRIPLANAR™ make-up carousel. The arrival system comprises of three tilted TRIPLANAR™ carousels for each module (two for the international module) and includes the possibility for inline screening of all arriving baggage.
The first module will be operational in December 2008, whereas the complete system will be operational before the end of April 2009.
Vanderlande Industries also has systems installed at Kaunas International Airport in Lithuania, where Vilnius Airport was handed over in 2007. In the Russian Federation the Company also has systems operational and under construction at Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Anadyr, Kaliningrad, Norilsk, Gelendjik and Ufa Airports.
Please contact for more information:
Vanderlande Industries International b.v.
Mr. M.E. van der Lande
Area Director Russian Federation
Phone +31 413 385 199
E-mail: martijn.van.der.lande@vanderlande.com