{"id":118119,"date":"2019-02-15T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=118119&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:19:36","slug":"automated-towing-trucks-at-saga-airport","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/automated-towing-trucks-at-saga-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated Towing Trucks At Saga Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced on February 12 plans to trial automated towing tractors in Saga Airport from the end of March. The towing equipment will be used to carry baggage from the terminal&#8217;s sorting station to the aircraft (a distance of approximately 100 meters). ANA will be using vehicles produced by Toyota for the two-week experiment and hopes begin using the trucks for commercial purposes next year. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/photo\/daily\/news\/190212\/dly1902120020-n1.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sankei Shimbun<\/a>, 2\/12\/2019  <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/towing-trucks-saga-airport.jpg?resize=1254%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1254\" height=\"536\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/towing-trucks-saga-airport.jpg?w=1254&amp;ssl=1 1254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/towing-trucks-saga-airport.jpg?resize=300%2C128&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/towing-trucks-saga-airport.jpg?resize=768%2C328&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/towing-trucks-saga-airport.jpg?resize=1024%2C438&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ana.co.jp\/group\/pr\/201902\/20190212.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ANA<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced on February 12 plans to trial automated towing tractors in Saga Airport from the end of March. The towing equipment will be used to carry baggage from the terminal&#8217;s sorting station to the aircraft (a distance of approximately 100 meters). ANA will be using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":118120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-118119","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-saga-city","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/118119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}