“With this new build program, we’re reacting to the current market situation and simultaneously prepare for the future,” explains Heike Clausen, Managing Director of VTG Tanktainer GmbH. To satisfy the various technical requirements of each customer quickly and flexibly, the company is producing tank containers which conform to high-quality unit specifications. VTG Tanktainer will, therefore, satisfy the expected market, customer and safety requirements in the coming years.

Biggest demand for overseas tank containers
About 1,000 standard T11 20’ tank containers are built by Chinese company Singamas, a worldwide leading supplier of tank containers.  In particular, these new-builds will be of good use in the transport operations within Asia, where market demand remains very high and developments are positive. VTG has also commissioned the construction of high-quality tank containers in South Africa and Belgium which, for example, are fitted with integrated surge plates or electric heating or which would allow the transportation of hydrogen peroxide.
Altogether, VTG has invested approx. EUR 18 million in the new-build program. This measure demonstrates the company’s commitment to safety and quality: “Our customers are not the only ones who expect state-of-the-art equipment” explains Clausen, referring to the new build program. “We have of course made it our mission to transport highly sensitive goods of this sort in the safest way possible. That’s where our competence lies.”