New baggage scanner at Frankfurt Airport: security check with CT | hessenschau.de
Fraport wants to take over the controls at Frankfurt Airport with innovative baggage scanners and private security forces. Federal Interior Minister Faeser (SPD) sees this as a model project.
“Finally!” – The deep sigh of Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr shows the pressure under which Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt and also the largest airline in the country was. In the presence of the Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) the airport operator Fraport announced the new organization of the Control of passengers and their hand luggage presented.
New control lanes were set up for this purpose. They should help that Handling chaos of the past summer not repeated. “By the summer of 2022 at the latest, it has been shown that things cannot go on like this,” said Spohr.
Faeser: “Travellers have experienced bitter disappointments”
Faeser, who represented the federal police at the appointment, said: “The travelers have experienced bitter disappointments.” Although control is now in the hands of Fraport, this does not mean compromising on safety. “We are not reducing staff here,” emphasized the SPD politician. In the future, the federal police should be less concerned with controlling controls and more with quality assurance and police tasks.
Faeser campaigned for other German airports to take over the “new world of Frankfurt”. There have already been initial inquiries from other airport operators.
First airport to organize control itself
Frankfurt is the first German airport to take over security control from the Federal Police. The airport operator Fraport has been controlling the private security forces itself for three weeks and also wants to speed up the acquisition of new baggage scanners, as explained by airport boss Stefan Schulte on Friday.
Last year, around 16 million boarding passengers and their hand luggage were checked at Frankfurt Airport, as Fraport reports. Together with those transferring and dropping out, it is 2022 almost 50 million passengers handled become.
Only 27 devices for 186 control lanes
New scanners, which no longer require liquids and electronic devices to be removed from hand luggage, should make it possible for more than twice as many passengers to be processed per control lane as before. Seven devices from two different manufacturers are already in Terminal 1, another 20 are to be added in the current year, announced Fraport boss Schulte. With 186 control lanes in the two existing passenger terminals, however, this is only the beginning. Terminal 3, which is planned for 2026, must also continue to be equipped with scanners.
The devices scan the hand luggage using the computer tomography (CT) technique known from medicine. Instead of a few blurry top-down images, they deliver hundreds of photos of the piece of luggage without any loss of speed, which enables three-dimensional views on the control screen and the layer-by-layer x-raying of the bag’s contents. The devices can also detect solid and liquid explosives. The restrictions on liquids in aviation were introduced in 2006 to counteract terrorism.
Image controllers in separate room
As with the use of private control forces, Fraport will also ensure more competition in terms of technology: Up to now, only products from the precise conglomerate Smiths Detection with its Wiesbaden plant have been used. Now a control line of the competitor Vanderlande, which belongs to the Toyota group, is also being opened, which uses a scanner from the manufacturer Leidos.
For the first time in this line, the image inspectors no longer sit directly in the hustle and bustle, but look at the scans in a separate room. According to Fraport, manufacturers are also working flat out to use artificial intelligence in image analysis.
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