Cotac cleans up
NewsFollowing the sale last year of its four Tanktainer Thurroclean tank cleaning and repair depots in the UK to Isotank Services Ltd (see World...
Isotank to acquire TTG depots
NewsIsotank Services Ltd is to acquire four tank cleaning and repair depots operated by Tanktainer Thurroclean Group (TTG), a wholly owned subsi...
Hoyer expands Dormagen
NewsHoyer of Hamburg has extended the storage and transhipment facilities for hazardous goods at its logistics centre in the Dormagen chemical p...
Tank depots live with trickle-down effect
NewsTank cleaning and repair depot operators are the unsung heroes of the global tank container industry. They have the unenviable task of servi...
CIMC flat out on tanks
NewsFollowing the installation in March this year of a second tank production line, output has increased significantly at the CIMC tank containe...
Tank depots urged to clean up their act
NewsTank cleaning stations in certain areas of the world are operating with a blatant disregard for safety and environmental protection. One com...
Clean Sea widens Asian depot network
NewsClean Sea International (CSI) is adding to its network of Asian tank cleaning installations with its first such facilities in China. Two dep...
Tank cleaning revamped
NewsThe cleaning of tank containers and road tankers can now be carried out to a common, rigorous standard across Europe as a result of a comple...
…delamination repair solution
NewsDuraloc has developed a new, patented system, which is claimed to offer significant advantages over current methods of rectifying delaminati...
Safety squeeze on tank depot margins
NewsIncreasingly stringent safety, health and environmental legislation continues to drive up costs for operators of tank container repair and c...
New standards for cleaning facilities
NewsThree Brussels-based organisations - the European Federation of Tank Cleaning Operators (EFTCO), the European Chemical Industry Council (CEF...
Qualawash cleans up in Sarnia
NewsThe purchase of the Rapid Tank Cleaning Ltd cleaning station in Sarnia, Ontario, has provided Qualawash with its 34th cleaning facility in N...
Depot safety issues under the spotlight
NewsThe main safety risks to which staff at tank cleaning depots are exposed are chemical spills and leaks, asphyxiation and confined space entr...
More business in store for tank depots?
NewsIn the current sluggish market, more tanks are coming off-hire than are going back out again on-hire. As a result tanks are clogging up d...
MI frames NRS
NewsThe NRS Group has signed a licensing deal with M1 Engineering that will allow the Tokyo-based tank container lessor to use M1's ISO tank fra...