Leonardo has been awarded, through a public tender, the contract for the ordinary and evolutionary maintenance and the technical management of all the baggage handling systems at the Rome Fiumicino Intercontinental Airport and the Rome Ciampino International Airport, airports managed by Aeroporti di Roma SpA.
The value of the contract awarded to Leonardo in consortium with Siemens (Leonardo 84%; Siemens 16%), with a four-year duration with a renewal option for a further four years, is a total of over € 96 million, including the renewal option. With the award of the new contract, Leonardo is confirmed as one of the leading operators in the international market of baggage handling systems - Baggage Handling System (BHS) - at airports. Leonardo has been able to develop not only the ability to design, build and install systems but has also established itself on the market as a supplier of after-sales services. In the last 24 months, Leonardo has in fact been awarded contracts for the construction and maintenance of the baggage handling systems of the European airports of Zurich, Geneva, Paris Orly, Lyon, Mulhouse, Kuwait City international airport and others in the Middle East and Asia .
In detail, the contract signed by Leonardo with Aeroporti di Roma SpA (ADR) provides for the technical, preventive and corrective maintenance of each BHS plant. Progressive maintenance interventions are also foreseen to allow the constant technological updating of each system so as to effectively adapt to changes in service requests. The agreement also includes the maintenance of the Information Technology component that manages the plants, Sorting Allocation Computer (SAC) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).
ADR has recently completed a multi-year renewal and evolution campaign for the entire baggage handling chain at the Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, which has considerably improved the quality of service available to passengers. Within this development plan, Leonardo has created the two new large BHS systems in Rome Fiumicino, the first dedicated to the flights of the Alitalia carrier and the SkyTeam alliance carriers, the second dedicated to all the other carriers. Both systems, in use by 2016, have been designed and built by LoB Automation of Leonardo at the Genoa site and adopt the MBHS® sorting machines (Mutisorting Baggage Handling System), based on the innovative Cross Belt technology. In the 2017, the airports of Rome Fiumicino and Rome Ciampino served a total of 47 million passengers, hosting 360.000 flight movements.
