Consolidation looms for tank operators

The Hamburg-based Hoyer Group, which is one of the world’s largest operators of tank containers and other equipment for transporting liquids and gases, is to invest over €100M, in assets, digitalisation programmes and infrastructure.

Globalstar Europe Satellite Services Ltd, part of Globstar, Inc, is to equip all INEOS Oxide’s tank containers and tank wagons in Europe with its Ovinto Sat real-time tracking and monitoring devices

A European logistics provider has deployed the Ovinto Sat smart asset monitoring system on tank containers.

VTG is getting out of the tank container operating business as it changes strategy to focus on tank container leasing.

The multimodal logistics specialist is investing heavily in intermodal transport assets and terminal facilities in Europe and China

The multimodal chemical logistics specialist has installed three solar panel plants with an annual output of 240,000 kWh, almost one third of the 750,000 kWh of electrical power consumed annually at its intensively-used Birrfeld terminal in Switzerland