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Jun 07, 2010 (newstodate): Conflicting interests among the parties are still keeping a solution to the cargo security issues at Copenhagen Airport on hold.
The security 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 parking stands.
Cargo handlers are thus now wrapping the cargo carts with plastic, and a follow-on car is controlling the movement of the cargo cart from the terminal to the control post at the entrance to the passenger aircraft parking areas.
At the latest meeting the handling companies maintained that if changes to the cargo carts were made, it should comprise all 1,200 cargo and baggage carts so as to uphold flexibility in their use - which would be a costly decision.
The current alternative is then to implement video surveillance of the transport roads and a manned monitoring station - which would be an even more costly solution.
The current procedure with plastic wrapping is however also a significant cost as well as an environmentally unsound solution.
At a meeting next week, the airport will once again seek agreement behind the parties by presenting what is now called a "third solution", details of which are yet unavailable.
The security 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 parking stands.
Cargo handlers are thus now wrapping the cargo carts with plastic, and a follow-on car is controlling the movement of the cargo cart from the terminal to the control post at the entrance to the passenger aircraft parking areas.
At the latest meeting the handling companies maintained that if changes to the cargo carts were made, it should comprise all 1,200 cargo and baggage carts so as to uphold flexibility in their use - which would be a costly decision.
The current alternative is then to implement video surveillance of the transport roads and a manned monitoring station - which would be an even more costly solution.
The current procedure with plastic wrapping is however also a significant cost as well as an environmentally unsound solution.
At a meeting next week, the airport will once again seek agreement behind the parties by presenting what is now called a "third solution", details of which are yet unavailable.