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Feb 19, 2010 (newstodate): Tensions over security issues are rising among airlines operating cargo business in Copenhagen Airport.
The airport's division of the airside area into a "soft" and a "hard" security zone focusing on enhanced security around the passenger aircraft area follows EU security requirements - but the airport's handling of the issue seems unsatisfactory to airline operators.
-When export cargo shipments are taken from the cargo terminals to the passenger aircraft, the transport vehicle first moves in the "soft" security zone and then into the "hard" security zone through a guarded checkpoint. Here the vehicle is screened under a random system that may require everything from a quick visual search to a full dis-assembly of vehicle and loads. This may result in delays that would cause the cargo to miss the aircraft, says an airline operator.
The cargo ramp handling companies have taken various measures to cope with the situation; one providing a second car to control the cargo transportation from terminal to aircraft, another wrapping entire pallets in plastic to prove that remains untouched from terminal to aircraft.
In either case, the measures entail extra costs for the operators that would rather prefer the airport to come up with a final solution to the infrastructural problem.
Among the options open is implementation of video surveillance.
The airport's division of the airside area into a "soft" and a "hard" security zone focusing on enhanced security around the passenger aircraft area follows EU security requirements - but the airport's handling of the issue seems unsatisfactory to airline operators.
-When export cargo shipments are taken from the cargo terminals to the passenger aircraft, the transport vehicle first moves in the "soft" security zone and then into the "hard" security zone through a guarded checkpoint. Here the vehicle is screened under a random system that may require everything from a quick visual search to a full dis-assembly of vehicle and loads. This may result in delays that would cause the cargo to miss the aircraft, says an airline operator.
The cargo ramp handling companies have taken various measures to cope with the situation; one providing a second car to control the cargo transportation from terminal to aircraft, another wrapping entire pallets in plastic to prove that remains untouched from terminal to aircraft.
In either case, the measures entail extra costs for the operators that would rather prefer the airport to come up with a final solution to the infrastructural problem.
Among the options open is implementation of video surveillance.