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Siemens receives order for Palma de Mallorca airport

Siemens Logistics has been awarded a contract to modernise the baggage handling system at Spain’s Palma de Mallorca airport.

With this project, Siemens Logistics will help airport operator Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea) to meet international specifications for baggage screening. Siemens will integrate new screening units as well as the install six Siemens tilt-tray sorter units (VarioSort TTS), 79 baggage carousels, and 60 check-in desks.

“As a proven partner for integration projects, we are pleased to continue our successful co-operation with Aena”, said Michael Reichle, CEO of Siemens Logistics. “With our decades of expertise and innovative airport solutions, we will make sure that our customer matches today’s demands and tomorrow’s challenges.”

Siemens Logistics’ VarioSort TTS baggage solution is an energy-efficient tilt-tray sorter with a robust design and low life-cycle costs. Important features include an increased baggage throughput rate and modular product components.

Siemens Logistics will carry out the project gradually, without interruption to airport operations, with measures scheduled to be completed in the next five years.