‘Baggage Handling System to provide fast, safe and flexible service’

(Continued from Page 1) The Remote Transfer Baggage Facility Handling Systems (RTBF) and Building projects were also awarded in November 2019 and February 2020 respectively. This project is divided into two packages (Package-0014 and Package-0015). The first contract was awarded to Al Jaber Engineering Company WLL to build the facility and will commence this month, while the second contract was awarded to Beumer Doha WLL to supply and install the baggage handling system into the Remote Transfer Baggage Facility Building. Works for this package started in November 2019. The construction of the Remote Transfer Baggage Facility Handling Systems comprises an airside facility of approximately 34,000 sqm to house the new state-of-the-art baggage handling system. The new baggage facility will allow the capacity of the baggage handling system to grow while ensuring minimal disruption to the existing airport operations during the construction phase, which is to be carried out landside and converted to airside upon completion. The Baggage Handling System will be equipped with best-in-class high capacity tote-based Individual Carrier System that provides fast, safe and flexible baggage handling from check-in to discharge with 100 percent accurate track and trace of baggage at every stage of the handling process. The Hold Baggage Screening System and equipment to be installed in the RTBF will be in compliance with the latest European Civil Aviation Committee (ECAC) Standard 3 requirements. HIAs expansion plans, which were previously revealed in the fourth quarter of 2019 will be carried out in two phases, A and B. Phase A will include linking the North Node to the new Central Concourse. This phase of the airport’s expansion is set to increase the terminals handling capacity to more than 53 million passengers annually by 2022. Phase B of the expansion plan will further enhance the airport’s capacity to more than 60 million passengers annually to cater to the ever-growing demand in passenger and cargo traffic.