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Ermewa sale completed

News22 Dec 2021

The sale to a Canadian-German consortium is in line with earlier reports...

News27 Apr 2021

The debt-laden French railways group is to sell its wagons and tank containers leasing arm for around €3.2B...

News1 Apr 2013

Although the near record output of tanks in 2012 coincided with stuttering economies and faltering business activity, tank lessors now have ...

News1 Jun 2009

Subject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities, the Transport and Logistics Division of SNCF (French Rail) will take 100% c...

News1 Apr 2008

While margins are still under pressure, a perennial problem faced by tank container leasing companies - poor fleet utilisation - has disappe...

News1 Apr 2005

Following the long, five-year depressed market for tanks, tank container lessors are now enjoying strong demand for their services on the ba...

News1 Apr 2004

One of the longest-running downturns in the tank container market is finally coming to an end. Tank lessors are gearing up to meet demand...

News1 Apr 2003

In the face of continued overcapacity in the world tank container fleet, lessors are striving to get more out of their assets. Repositioning...

News1 Apr 2003

Olivier Ghesquiere has been appointed managing director of the Eurotainer worldwide tank container leasing business with effect from April 8...

News15 Apr 2002

The oversupply of tank containers that has characterised the market for the best part of five years shows no sign of diminishing. Tank lesso...

News5 Jun 2001

Tank container leasing companies are hoping that they have reached the bottom of the current trough in the market cycle. On a positive note,...

News14 Nov 2000

Although mainstream container manufacturers have experienced a recovery during the past year, most builders of tank containers are still lan...

News1 Aug 2000

As briefly reported in last month's issue of WorldCargo News (p1), the fleets of two of the world's largest tank container lessors - Eurotai...

News1 Jun 2000

Following the collapse in the market for new tank containers over the past 18 months, BSLT, the long established French tank container and r...

News1 May 2000

Tank container industry hopes for the start of a market recovery in the latter half of 2000 appear to be coming to nothing, as manufacturers...