New US tank car facility
NewsUS hydrochloric acid producer Reagent Chemical and Research Inc has selected a site in a Knox, Indiana, industrial park for a new tank car e...
Tankclean in Haanpaa deal
NewsHaanpaa AB and Tankclean Sweden AB have reached an agreement whereby Tankclean Sweden will take over Haanpaa’s tank cleaning stations in S...
Hoyer grows in Ireland
NewsHoyer Ireland, part of the Hoyer Group, has taken over Irish tank container operator SCL Transport Ltd from South Coast Transport Group. Ter...
LNG-fuelled trucks: placebo or cure?
NewsThis past summer the Port of Long Beach announced that it had ordered 100 Sterling LNG-fuelled trucks to help “kick start” its ambitious...
Trett to head Stolt Europe
NewsChris Trett, who returned to Stolt Tank Containers (STC) in 2007 as director of foodgrade and flexibag development after six years as managi...
Hoyer Global up 25%
NewsHoyer Global Transport, the Hoyer Group’s deepsea tank container operation, has reported a 25% increase in turnover for 2007 with the over...
Flying the tank flag in Shanghai
NewsThe Secretariat of the International Tank Container Organisation (ITCO) is recommending to its members that it participates in the 2010 Tran...
Investor buyout at ITT
NewsAn investment group led by Ken Hulsey has acquired control of the Atlanta-headquartered tank container operator Intermodal Tank Transport In...
NTtank debuts in Europe
NewsNantong Tank Container Company Ltd (NTtank), the latest Chinese company to commence the manufacture of tank containers, hosted a reception t...
Composite butterfly valve
NewsPelican Worldwide BV has developed what it claims to be the first butterfly valve for the tank container market to incorporate composite mat...
Revenues up at STC
NewsReflecting the current strong demand for tank containers worldwide, Stolt Tank Containers (STC) increased its revenues for the first quarter...
Contaminated box scare
NewsAustralian container lessor Royal Wolf has been caught up in a controversy over apparently contaminated shipping containers, which have been...
High utilisation rates buoy tank lessors
NewsWhile margins are still under pressure, a perennial problem faced by tank container leasing companies - poor fleet utilisation - has disappe...
Singamas adds swap tanks
NewsSingamas Container Holdings has expanded its range of tank containers to include swap tanks in capacities from 30,000 to 35,000 litres. Foll...
Kombiverkehr hits a million
NewsKombiverkehr KG became the first European intermodal transport operator to move more than one million truck consignments from road to rail i...