Air freight logistics
Last mile baggage automation
Vanderlande and airport operator Avinor have entered into an innovation partnership to explore ways to fully automate the last mile of the baggage handling process.
Vanderlande supplies two innovative solutions - Bagload for integrated robotic loading and Fleet Batch for the transportation of Unit Load Devices (ULD). These solutions are being tested at Oslo Gardermoen Airport in Norway. The aim of this partnership is to improve the efficiency and reliability of baggage handling, which will benefit the entire airport industry. Avinor received funding of the equivalent of around 1.3 million euros after Innovation Norway selected its project proposal. The airport operator chose Vanderlande as its technology partner following a tender process, and the newly created innovation partnership will run from August 2023 to November 2024.
The aim of the innovation partnership is to automate the part of the baggage handling process that has remained unchanged for more than 50 years. Unloading baggage from the BHS into containers destined for the aircraft is currently a labor-intensive and costly process. According to Avinor, these last-mile activities account for around 50 percent of baggage handling costs. The first phases will take place at Vanderlande's test facilities in Veghel in the Netherlands and will include the further development and prototyping of the technologies according to the project brief. From September 2024, the two products will be tested for three months at Oslo Airport, where Avinor has set up a dedicated project test center. This facility is connected to the baggage handling system so that the evaluations can be carried out in a real live environment.
This article appeared in issue 10/23
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