MHI-TES to Supply Miyazaki Airport with New Passenger Boarding Bridges
2017年11月16日 - 04:16PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Transportation Equipment Engineering
& Service Co., Ltd. (MHI-TES), a group company of Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order for five
passenger boarding bridges (PBBs) from Miyazaki Airport Building
Co., Ltd. The order consists of two Long PBBs able to accommodate
small aircraft, the first of their type in Japan, as well as three
STEPLESS PBBs with completely barrier-free corridors that were
first developed by MHI-TES. Installation of the PBBs began in
September this year in parallel with other airport renovation work
and will be completed in December.
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Long PBB for Small Aircraft
The two Long PBBs were jointly developed by Miyazaki Airport and
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Transportation Equipment Engineering
& Service Co., Ltd., a group company of MHI-TES. In order to
accommodate both regular and small-sized passenger aircraft (such
as the DHC8-400) in service at Miyazaki Airport, the design of the
PBB, including the head structure, lifting apparatus, running gear,
and tunnel portion, was holistically revised to allow connection to
all types of regular and small-sized aircraft while still
maintaining the gentle slope angle required for PBB standards.
Conventional PBBs cannot be directly connected to smaller passenger
aircraft of 80 seats or fewer. The newly-developed design solves
this problem to create a truly passenger-friendly solution.
The STEPLESS PBBs eliminate the ramp placed between tunnels that
had been considered unavoidable due to the conventional structure
of PBBs, which consist of a larger outer tunnel corridor and
smaller inner tunnel that extends and retracts. The new design has
fully flat floors for both the outer and inner passageways. This is
achieved by eliminating the ramp and expanding the passageway by
covering-up the rain gutters normally located on either side of the
outer tunnel corridor. This creates a completely barrier-free space
which facilitates smooth and safe mobility, including for
passengers using wheelchairs.
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Stepless PBB
As Japan seeks to increase the number of inbound visitors to 40
million by 2020, Miyazaki Airport is building international flight
facilities scheduled for completion in March 2019, and has begun
renovations on its domestic terminal. One of the STEPLESS PBBs was
installed in October 2017, in an area reserved for international
flights, allowing overseas passengers to travel in comfort. Two of
the long PBBs are being installed for domestic flights, and two
existing PBBs are being upgraded to STEPLESS PBBs, allowing
passengers on all domestic flights to travel directly from the
terminal building through PBBs, without having to walk or use
buses.
About Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), headquartered in Tokyo, is
one of the world's leading industrial firms with 80,000 group
employees and annual consolidated revenues of around 38 billion
U.S. dollars. For more than 130 years, the company has channeled
big thinking into innovative and integrated solutions that move the
world forward. MHI owns a unique business portfolio covering land,
sea, sky and even space. MHI delivers innovative and integrated
solutions across a wide range of industries from commercial
aviation and transportation to power plants and gas turbines, and
from machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space
systems.
For more information, please visit the MHI Group website:
http://www.mhi-global.com.
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Source: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Contact:
Joseph Hood, PR Manager
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Email: mhi-pr@mhi.co.jp
Tel: +81-(0)3-6716-2168
Fax: +81-(0)3-6716-5860
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