Page 18 - 2015 Facts and Figures on Frankfurt Airport

16 Technical Information
– The Boeing 747-400 jumbo can hold 225,000 liters of fuel and the Airbus A380 superjumbo almost 310,000 liters.
– HBG has its own port at Kelsterbach on the Main River.
From there, a pipeline runs to the HBG fuel farm at FRA.
– There is also a link to the pipeline that Rhein-Main-Rohr-
leitungsgesellschaft operates between the Dutch border
and Frankfurt.
– The system is linked to the CEPS pipeline (of NATO’s
European-wide pipeline system).
Automatic Baggage Conveyor System
Fraport’s baggage conveyor and sorting system ensures a high level of service quality and serves as a vital umbilical cord for timely loading of departure and transfer baggage. In terms of its size, capacity configuration, performance, and quality, the system is unique in the world.
– Capacity: approx. 20,500 baggage items per hour.
– Reliability: consistently above 99%
– Essential for FRA’s 45-minute minimum transfer time
– Total length of conveyors: approx. 81 kilometers
– Baggage travel speed: 2.5 meters per second on average and up to five meters per second in some sections, such as the high-speed baggage transfer tunnel between the terminals.
– About 12,000 baggage items can be temporarily stored in the early baggage buffer until they can be loaded.
– Up to 20,500 baggage trays are used in the baggage
conveyor system.
– 596,728 items of bulky baggage were transported in 2014.
Did you know?
• Aircraft parked at Frankfurt Airport are supplied with an average total of about 14.7 million liters of fuel a day.
Did you know?
• 28,164,889 baggage items passed through the baggage conveyor system in 2014.
• The current record for a single day (August 2, 2014) is 112,653 items of outbound baggage.