Highways Today ran a market feature on the convergence between airport and rail baggage handling, built around commentary from Andrei Iacobita, Managing Director at IESYS. The piece frames a global baggage handling market worth roughly USD 11.5 billion in 2024, still notably fragmented despite Vanderlande’s 2025 acquisition of Siemens Logistics, with rail and integrated transport hubs now treated as their own fast-growing segment as multimodal travel expands. Andrei’s central argument, as the article presents it, is that the most valuable and portable asset in transport engineering isn’t a specific conveyor or piece of software, but the operational logic — how equipment, control systems, and people work together, and how exceptions get handled — that governs a system’s behaviour.