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Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd. Lands $28m Baggage Handling Order for Montreal
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Baggage systems integrator, Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd. has won one of its largest baggage handling orders by landing the contract to build and install a ‘forward looking’ Departures system for Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
The contract for the “common use” HBS system is valued at $28 million Canadian Dollars (around £12 million) and will be installed in two major phases, with completion expected by December 2005. The order, which was won in the face of stiff global competition, was placed by Aeroports de Montreal (ADM), which operates Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (formerly Montreal Dorval International) and Montreal Mirabel International, a cargo only airport.
Other companies and organisations involved in the Project include the airport’s design consultants, Pellemon, part of SNC Lavalin, which designed the systems’ layout, and CATSA (Canadian Air Transport Security Administration), which is responsible for overseeing the deployment of hold baggage EDS across Canada.
Commenting on the prestigious order, Mike Jeffery, Managing Director of Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd., said: “We not only won the order as a result of our experience with common use systems, but we have since been able to give ADM an immediate payback by meeting their performance and capability requirements for the system, and saving them $5 million dollars into the bargain.”
The first stage of the project calls for Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd. to convert the separate baggage handling systems for the various airline check-in desks, into a common use baggage system. This means that all the airline check-ins will have the ability to feed through to all the sorting and make up positions within the terminal building. Phase two of the programme, will see the installation of Hold Baggage Screening incorporating traditional Level One and Two X-ray/work station screening and CT technology Level Three EDS (Explosives Detection Screening).
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The introduction of a common use baggage system is relatively new to Canada and North America, which have traditionally opted for in-line systems. The key benefit of a common use system is that any check-in desk can reach any screening machine, which can reach any sortation point.
According to Dave Reynolds, Sales Director of Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd., the major attraction of common use systems is that the airport operator/airlines not only receive the benefits of common use baggage sortation, but also gain advantages through common use screening. Putting the case for common use baggage handling, Dave Reynolds said: “Common use systems make better use of space, reduce the amounts of screening equipment required to meet peak throughputs and provide better redundancy - and all this at a lower cost”
As a result of the higher sorting volumes that will be inherent in the new HBS, Logan Teleflex (UK) will be supplying its market leading model 700 RF (radio frequency) Tilt Tray Sorter with all the advantages of high throughput, reliability and high availability and low maintenance. However, alongside the 700 RF TTS installed in phase one of the project, Logan Teleflex (UK) will also upgrade an existing pusher-based sorter as one of the final elements of the initial system.
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Editor’s Note:
Sales – please contact:
Dave Reynolds, Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd. on telephone +44 (0) 1482 785677
Or, e-mail marketing@loganteleflex.com _________________________________________________
For press enquiries: please contact Gary Lillistone, Bridge PR Ltd. on tel: 024 76553333 or e-mail: garyl@bridgepr.co.uk
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