WBP NEWS
The latest news from ACI’s World Business Partners
Tunnel vision
A €300 million project to create a network of underground baggage tunnels beneath Heathrow Airport has become the safest major tunnelling project ever undertaken after recording close to two million hours without an accident. For more than a year, a team of over 250 people have been working underneath the world’s busiest international airfi eld to create a baggage tunnel that will move passengers’ bags more quickly between Heathrow’s terminals. The project is called the Post Terminal 5
Transfer Baggage System (PT5TBS) and involved tunnelling underneath the world’s busiest international airfi eld to link Terminal 5 to Terminal 3 and onto Terminal 1. Over 250 services were negotiated during the course of tunnelling with the team at times only metres from the Heathrow Express and Underground lines and working directly underneath the fuel farm. Ferrovial Agroman is the principal
contractor for the post Terminal 5 baggage transfer project. Vanderlande are the suppliers of the baggage system.
Tourism Futures International Contact: Robert Cain Address: Level 3, 1 McLaren Street, North Sydney, NSW, 2060, Australia +61 2 9959 5822
Tel:
Email:
robert.cain@
tourismfuturesintl.com Web:
www.tourismfuturesintl.com
Tourism Futures International (TFI) is a research-orientated company specialising in the future of aviation, travel and tourism. Its consultants understand travel markers and the management challenges confronting companies that serve these markets. TFI helps airlines and airports, transport companies, accommodation providers, destination agencies and government organisations.
Unisys Corporation Contact: Olivier Houri Address: 1 Unisys Way, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, 19424, USA +1 610 909 3726
Tel:
Email:
olivier.houri@unisys.com Web: www.unisys-com/transportation Unisys is a leading provider of consulting, solutions, services and technologies to over 200 airlines, 600 airports and numerous ground handling organisations worldwide.
Repeat business
Era is set to upgrade air traffi c control at Russia’s Sochi Airport by installing surface multilateration and ADS-B surveillance systems after inking an agreement with Lianozovo Electromechanical Plant Research and Production Corporation (LEMZ). The announcement comes after Era was selected by LEMZ to upgrade surveillance at
Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport. Sochi Airport is undergoing an extensive modernisation project to enhance the airport’s
infrastructure. This is especially important as it expands to meet the demands of the expected increase in air traffi c when the city hosts the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. “As evident by our recent surveillance certifi cation, along with our recent airport wins, Era is
becoming the clear choice for Russia’s next-generation civilian air traffi c management surveillance needs,” said Era’s senior vice president Kevin Layton.
Business boom T-Systems International saw revenues increase by almost 3% to €2.2 billion in the fi rst half of 2010
with the telecoms giant signing new deals with Deka-Bank, TUI-Travel and DHL. Despite the continued weakness of the global economy, new orders were up 2.9% at the end of
the fi rst half-year than in the same period last year. An improvement in profi tability was refl ected in the signifi cant increase in adjusted EBIT, which at
€123 million at the end of the fi rst half-year, was up 34% on the prior-year period. Commenting on the results, Klaus Werner, COO of T-Systems said: “We have considerably
increased our profi tability. The adjusted EBIT margin is developing according to plan. We will continue to focus on effi ciency in the second half-year.”
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