Located right in the heart of Europe, Berlin offers the advantage of shorter flying times to Eastern Europe and Asia in comparison to the established main hub airports in Germany. In the future, all of Berlin's air traffic will be concentrated at the new airport, as the old airports in Tegel and Tempelhof are due to be closed. It is estimated that the new airport will handle between 22 and 25 million passengers in 2011.

Project details

• Sorting capacity: 15,000 pieces of luggage per hour
• 112 check-in counters
• 4 transfer sections
• 8 arrivals baggage carousels
• Connections to 2 tilt-tray sorters
• 30 destination points
• Early luggage storage for up to 1,400 pieces of luggage
• Multi-stage automatic XRAY luggage checking
• Connection to luggage management computer
• SCADA system for luggage control centre / large-format displays
• Maintenance tool
• Conveyor technology control system: 16 x Simatic S7-F PLC controllers