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Apr 07, 2010 (newstodate): Delayed by last week's Easter holidays, Copenhagen Airport will meet tomorrow, April 8, 2010, with the cargo handling companies to present its plans for a solution to the security issues at the airport.
Copenhagen Airport has been in talks with SLV, the Danish CAA, and based on this the airport's Head of Security will outline the alternatives.
The current 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.
Copenhagen Airport has been in talks with SLV, the Danish CAA, and based on this the airport's Head of Security will outline the alternatives.
The current 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.