Smiths Detection equips new Southend Airport terminal

Above: Southend Airport will play a significant role in transporting visitors to the 2012 Olympics in London this summer.
The project includes Smiths Detection’s high-speed automatic explosives X-Ray detection systems for checked baggage, carry-on baggage scanners and trace detection equipment.

Mal Maginnis, President of Smiths Detection, said: “Southend Airport will be one of the travel hubs for visitors to the 2012 Summer Olympics. Our advanced detection systems will help this ambitious airport meet its long-term goal of handling some two million passengers a year by 2020.”

The terminal - operational since the end of February and now linked to central London by a high-speed rail service (above) - was completed in good time for the Olympic Games which open in July.