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Mar 23, 2010 (newstodate): Copenhagen Airport is working hard to find workable solutions to the problems around transport of export air cargo from the cargo terminals to the aircraft on the passenger aircraft parking areas.
-We have had meetings with the authorities, SLV, and will now meet with the cargo companies situated at the airport, including Novia, SAS Cargo, WFS and DHL Aviation, says Jonnie Muller, Copenhagen Airport Head of Security.
-These meetings are slated for next week, and after that Copenhagen Airport will be able to publish information about the initiatives to be taken, says Mr Muller.
The security problems have also been targeted by BARD - the Board of Airline Representatives in Denmark.
-If the extra costs for increased security at the airport get too high some of the airlines operating cargo on narrow-body aircraft may not take cargo on-board to and from Copenhagen Airport in the future, says Kim Irmov, BARD chairman.
At a meeting with AOC on February, 25, Copenhagen Airport affirmed its commitment to finding a solution to the security problems with export air cargo on passenger aircraft from the airport.
The problems derive from the airport's division of the airside areas into a "soft" and a "hard" security zone with a guarded checkpoint between them, but without surveillance over cargo transportation from cargo terminals to the "hard" security zone around the aircraft.
To avoid being stopped at the checkpoint, the cargo handling companies are then charging the airlines for follow-on guards or plastic wrapping of the shipments to secure against pilfering and interference with the shipments on the way to the aircraft.
In any case, the current situation incurs extra costs on the airlines, some of which have openly warned that they might stop carrying export cargo from Copenhagen Airport altogether as their profit margins are already very thin.
-We have had meetings with the authorities, SLV, and will now meet with the cargo companies situated at the airport, including Novia, SAS Cargo, WFS and DHL Aviation, says Jonnie Muller, Copenhagen Airport Head of Security.
-These meetings are slated for next week, and after that Copenhagen Airport will be able to publish information about the initiatives to be taken, says Mr Muller.
The security problems have also been targeted by BARD - the Board of Airline Representatives in Denmark.
-If the extra costs for increased security at the airport get too high some of the airlines operating cargo on narrow-body aircraft may not take cargo on-board to and from Copenhagen Airport in the future, says Kim Irmov, BARD chairman.
At a meeting with AOC on February, 25, Copenhagen Airport affirmed its commitment to finding a solution to the security problems with export air cargo on passenger aircraft from the airport.
The problems derive from the airport's division of the airside areas into a "soft" and a "hard" security zone with a guarded checkpoint between them, but without surveillance over cargo transportation from cargo terminals to the "hard" security zone around the aircraft.
To avoid being stopped at the checkpoint, the cargo handling companies are then charging the airlines for follow-on guards or plastic wrapping of the shipments to secure against pilfering and interference with the shipments on the way to the aircraft.
In any case, the current situation incurs extra costs on the airlines, some of which have openly warned that they might stop carrying export cargo from Copenhagen Airport altogether as their profit margins are already very thin.