Taiwan Air Cargo Terminal Ltd (TACT), a consortium operating company of China Air, is expanding its cargo capacities in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Siemens Mobility is equipping the existing cargo center at Taipei Airport with a modern material handling system, and constructing a new handling system for the air cargo terminal at Kaohsiung Airport. The overall order, including a service agreement for two years after commissioning, is worth almost 29 million euros. The project is scheduled for completion by March 2010 in Taipei and by March 2011 in Kaohsiung.

Taiwan Taoyuan (IATA code: TPE) is the international airport for Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. It is the country's largest airport and the hub for China Airlines and EVA Air. Kaohsiung Airport is situated in Taiwan's second-largest city. TACT wishes to expand its facilities to handle the increasing volume of cargo in Taiwan. IATA estimates that the volume of air cargo within Asia will grow at an average annual rate of 6.3 percent until 2011.

The new facilities will increase throughput at each location by 500,000 tonnes per year. The existing air cargo center at Taipei Airport will be modernized and equipped with a modern material handling system. Both locations feature a lift-and-run system in which the unit load devices (ULD) are only moved by transfer vehicles (TV) and cargo hoists. Five hoists and eleven TVs will serve 650 storage locations in the Taipei Airport facility. The material flow concept for the Kaohsiung facility will provide for six hoists and eleven TVs to move the cargo to and from the 540 storage locations there.

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