FLEXITANKS OFFER OILS AND FATS COMPANIES TRANSPORT CHOICES – ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH VALUE PRODUCTS
May 1st, 2011
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BIGGEST change in liquid cargo shipping practices in recent years has been the growth in the use of flexitanks where commodities are carried in plastic sacks inserted into standard 20ft International Organization for Standardization (ISO) metal containers. Geographically and in terms of industry use, the practice has caught on like wildfire: flexitank usage across industry in the past ten years has grown by over 10-fold to around 300-400,000 units a year at present according to Chris Thornton, flexitank manager at the UK-based Container Owners ...
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