The use of tank containers provides a safe and straightforward method of controlling costs, while providing responsible care to the public, employees and the environment. Their advantages over drums include:


Environmental Efficiency

The tank container is a recyclable resource, which can be used over and over again.


Greater Capacity

Tank containers are able to carry a far greater quantity of liquid for the equivalent shipping space and cost compared to an ISO container filled with drums. A tank container, with a capacity of 26,000 litres or more, can transport the equivalent of 128 205-litre (55 US gallons) drums in the same space. It would require 1.6 dry box container loads at effectively twice the shipping cost to transport this number of drums.

Furthermore, add to expenditure the cost of purchasing standard drums, at around $20 each or $2,560 in total, and the costs of equipment and labour to handle, store, fill and individually mark each one. Tanks offer a more economic alternative.


Economical Design

Think of a tank container as a large but technically superior drum, within its own protective frame and with provision for lifting and stacking. The resulting ease and speed of loading and discharging is beneficial to both shippers and their customers.

Receiving just two tank container loads each day eliminates the alternative of handling and storage of up to 260 drums. Difficult when the drums are new, but even more costly and inefficient when the drums are empty and contaminated.


Ease of Maintenance

Tank containers have the added benefit of stainless-steel cleanliness and strength, pressurisation and integral heating systems. GE SeaCo tank containers are available from stock and supplied with independent-authority test certification and cleanliness certificates.


Tank containers provide benefits of efficiency, economy, quality and safety over the alternative means to transport liquid—a container load of drums.