Ukranian baggage handling update
Last year the Ukraine state authorities awarded a major contract to baggage handling specialist Logan Teleflex.

Logan and its local agent and partner Gate Technologies undertook to supply an integrated state-of-the-art departures check-in system with 100% hold baggage screening. The new system is part of the continuous development of the busy Boryspil International airport, the main international airport within the Ukraine.

The new Boryspil departure system will comprise Logan Teleflex’s advanced high security baggage handling technology with X-ray screening machines supplied by Gate Technologies. The integrated system has been designed to provide a throughput of 2,400 bags per hour and was due to be delivered at the end of 2009.

The system is based around a straight central line with check-in desks left and right that ultimately feed to the make-up carousels. The system comprises best-in-class equipment from Logan Teleflex and Gate Technologies. The technology provided includes 30, two-stage, in-gauge check-in desks; two baggage transportation system; two Level 1/ 2 100% hold baggage screening systems; a Level 3 screening line; two horizontal baggage make-up carousels and an out-of-gauge screening system with a dedicated check-in and weigh scale. The system complies with international security standards and regulations.

This major project has entailed Logan Teleflex and Gate dismantling and moving the existing departure lines without disrupting the normal day-to-day running of the departure terminal. The project team had to ensure that temporary check-in facilities would provide efficient support for the airlines and their customers while the new system was being built.

“This has been an exciting project for the Logan Teleflex/ Gate Technologies team. We have an excellent relationship with Boryspil International airport and the Ukraine authorities, having supplied a system to them in 2002. This project will provide a future-proof integrated system that will provide highly efficient and secure baggage handling to cope with Boryspil’s increasing number of passengers,” said Ronnie Romano, Business Development Manager, Logan Teleflex UK.