Automated material-handling system producer Vander-lande Industries believes that automated baggage handling is the way of the future. While many smaller and medium-sized airports have not automated their systems, the company argues that gains are available in cost, time, efficiency and sorting quality if automated sorting is introduced. Vanderlande has developed a cost-effective system, which is based on proven technology, to offer the highest possible sort quality. Gijs Bartelet, senior systems engineer for baggage-handling systems at Vanderlande, said: "The system should eliminate the sorting errors that frequently happen with manual handling, the biggest cause of lost bags. Next to that, of course, airports want to reduce manpower levels because of the ever-increasing costs of labour, difficulties in finding staff and increasingly stringent ergo-nomic and occupational health regulations."
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