Thanks to ULMA´s remodeling and adjustments, the Malaga – Costa del Sol Airport is now adapted to the new standard regarding baggage inspection, becoming one of the airport benchmarks in southern Europe and being able to operate with up to 20 million passengers a year.
The International Airport of Malaga – Costa del Sol, founded in 1919, today operates more than sixty airlines with daily connections to 20 Spanish cities and more than 100 cities in Europe. It has a traffic of 18 million passengers and has three terminals. Therefore, the high increase in air traffic has led to a series of investments to remodel and expand the terminals.
The work that ULMA has carried out for the remodeling and expansion has consisted of renewing the departure baggage treatment and inspection system at the SIEB (Baggage Inspection System in the Warehouse). It also included the racetracks and check-in belts.
The objective has been to adapt the baggage handling system to the space and functionality requirements of new baggage inspection machines.

Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport operates in three terminals. Terminal T1, T2 and T3. In each of the terminals, ULMA has carried out all of the following actions.
Terminal 1 (T1)
They replaced the entire existing baggage handling installation, as well as three inclined check-in racks. Due to the new features of the new machines, they supplied and assembled two new metal structures on which they placed the new EDS inspection machines.
Also, ULMA installed 419 new baggage handling machines in this terminal: Eleven vertical diverters to ensure the correct sorting of baggage and 25 baggage reading arches. They also integrated a new Level 4 security level, as well as an anti-explosive container, and six new inclined check-in racks.


Finally, they replaced the entire set of metal maintenance platforms.
Terminal 2 (T2)
In this terminal, the eleven existing baggage inspection lines, each with its own standard 2 inspection machine, were replaced by the new standard 3 machines. In adittion, they modified the terminal’s entire baggage transport system. Due to the new physical performance of the new machines, they reinforced the metal structure of the 11 platforms on which the new standard 3 inspection machine rests.
In adittion, ULMA installed 419 new baggage handling machines in this terminal, 11 vertical diverters to ensure the correct sorting of baggage and 25 baggage reading arches. They also integrated a new Level 4 security level, as well as an anti-explosive container, and integrated six new inclined check-in racks.
To guarantee the maintainability of the new equipment, ULMA also installed the entire network of metal maintenance platforms in Terminal 2.

On the other hand, ULMA participated in the remodelling of previously existing check-in stations by replacing 65 check-in counters. For each of these check-in counters, ULMA guaranteed the correct fire prevention sectorization, supplying 32 new fire dampers and integrating them into the airport’s fire prevention switchboard.
Finally, they installed 80 new CCTV cameras and reinforced the entire lighting system.
Terminal 3 (T3)
In Terminal 3 of Málaga-Costa del SOL Airport, ULMA worked on its two existing floors, the mezzanine and the basement. They installed and integrated thirteen new standard 3 inspection machines. For this purpose, ULMA reinforced the concrete slab on which the new inspection machines rest by means of new metal structures.

Furthermore, they installed 218 new baggage transport equipment, onevertical diverter that ensures the correct classification of the suitcase and ten label reading arches. In addition, they remodelled three previously existing rooms, consisting of the airport’s security rooms.