FLEXIBAG for transportation of bulk cargo

FLEXIBAG also called FLEXITANK as an opportunity and means for transportation of your bulk non-hazardous cargoes from any point and worldwide.

# What is FLEXITANK?
FLEXITANK is special equipment for transportation bulk non-hazardous cargoes, using the standard 20-foot sea or railway container.
FLEXITANK is a special, soft and tight tank with volume from 14 up to 24 thousand liters.
FLEXITANK is produced from plastic material. In combined condition it occupies just 0,25 cubic meter.

# How it works?
FLEXITANK should be installed in 20-foot container which can be provided by shipping container company or you can use your own container. Installation of FLEXITANK takes 20-30 minutes. Then container will be ready to load your cargo. Installation of FLEXITANK can be made both on the container terminal, and in a place of loading. After installation you will just need to connect your connecting device to FLEXITANK. Using the pump you can start loading. Loading takes 20-40 minutes depending on type of a cargo and the pump. After loading is finished the container with FLEXITANK and with your cargo is ready to travel. The container can be transported by road, railway or sea. The container with your cargo can be delivered to any point worldwide. In place of destination you or your partners can unload a cargo quickly and without any losses. For this you will need just the pump. After unloading is finished, FLEXITANK can be utilized, as it is disposable.

# What it is possible to transport?
In FLEXITANK it is possible to transport almost any of non-hazardous liquids, both technical, and food application. Here is incomplete list of products which can be transported in FLEXITANK: Foodstuff: food, edible and animal oils and fats (liquid and solid), juices concentrates, juices, syrups, water, wine, treacle, food additives, pharmaceutical oils, malt, sorbitol.
Technical stuff: technical and industrial oils, technical additives, synthetic pitches, liquid cleaning means, emulsions, glycerin, some kinds of paints, ink, fertilizers, latex, transformer oils etc.
Some liquids have properties to get thick during storage or at downturn of temperature. This will not allow to make effective unloading of a cargo. For this purpose we use heating pad which is installed together with FLEXITANK. It is used just before start of unloading using steam or hot water inside. This allows to increase temperature of a cargo.

# Advantages.
FLEXITANK is an alternative to such standard transportations as tank-containers, railway or road tanks, drums and other way of transportation.
Basic advantages of FLEXITANK:

• You will significantly reduce expenses for transportation. In comparison with tank-container you will pay just for one way freight of the 20-foot container.
• You use FLEXITANK as packaging for the cargo. In comparison with cost of drums or other capacities you save not less than 30-40 %.
• You save up to 90 % of time for loading and unloading of the cargo.
• No need to clean FLEXITANK after transportation as it is disposable.
• You reduce losses of a cargo during unloading. As comparison – losses during unloading from FLEXITANK are 0.1 %, when during unloading from drums losses are 1 %.
• You will increase volume of a cargo for transportation. In comparison with the standard packaging as drums and canisters – volume can be increased up to 30 %.
• The cargo is delivered «door to door» without intermediate overloads.
  

FLEXITANKS are used worldwide for a long time. Their design features and suitability for transportations were deeply checked by the competent organizations. There is a strong multisteps quality control during manufacturing of FLEXITANK. Each FLEXITANK is tested «for break» with 8 multiple overload. Each FLEXITANK has its own unique identification number. This provides guarantees the responsibility of the manufacturer.

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The Possible New Era of Foldable Shipping Container

World shipping liners are a step closer now to easing a headache that costs the business billions of dollars, every year, with the successful invention of the new mass market-foldable shipping container. Empty containers must be shuffled around the world to be refilled, requiring millions of ship, truck and rail journeys that yield no revenue. According to Neil Davidson of London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants, the net cost of moving empties is around US$7 billion a year.


Trucks, trains, barges and ships could carry four times as many containers if they were folded and stacked on top of each other. This would cut the cost of moving empties by as much as 75 percent, saving billions of dollars. AP Moeller-Maersk, CMA-CGM, NYK Line and Evergreen Group, say they are waiting for proof that foldable containers work and are affordable before commit to investing.


Because of their complexity, foldable containers would cost at least $4,000 each, roughly double the cost of normal containers. The boxes must be able to withstand the heat, cold and salt water of the high seas, and the rough handling of dock cranes. On ships, containers are stacked up to 10 deep, so each one needs to be able to withstand 350 tonnes of weight. They also must work within the standardized systems used worldwide in highly automated ports. The increasing needs of society for a greener product, shipping lines and shippers' needs to save fuel costs are bringing the foldable containers nearer to market.


Shipping container -- a steel, rectangular box usually 20 or 40 feet long (six to 12 meters) -- is the building block of global trade, greatly raising the productivity and efficiency of shipping and port operations since coming into use in 1957. And cutting the expense of moving empties would certainly raising the profit margins of shipping carriers. The shipping industry is reported losses of about $20 billion last year, according to Drewry.


In the 1970s, an Australian company developed a container in which all the sides detached. But the sides kept getting separated from each other, and the container never caught on. There were other unsuccessful attempts in the 1980s and 1990s -- they were either too heavy, or fell apart or took too long to put together.

Currently there are few companies actively in designing the foldable containers:

CARGOSHELL Rene Giesbers, heir to a central-heating fortune in Rotterdam, in 2007 designed a composite fiberglass container. He is hoping for help from the Dutch government in the form of a green label that would give companies buying his container tax breaks. The container's vertical walls fold inwards, giving it an X shape as it collapses on itself. He says his container saves 75 percent of the fuel needed to transport it, and says the material is as strong as steel but won't rust and requires less maintenance. He says he has a contract with a manufacturer and plans on selling the first containers by this summer.


























COMPACT CONTAINER SYSTEM Boston-based Compact Container Systems has also come up with a design for a container that also folds by hinging at its side walls. It demonstrated its first prototype at a trade fair in November and is now working on revisions.


HOLLAND CONTAINER INNOVATIONS Simon Bosschieter, a 28-year-old engineer from the Netherlands, designed a container with folding walls that slide into each other. He says his company has a manufacturing partner and is planning to put its first containers on the market by this summer. He says the containers are made with a steel alloy and are sturdier than others.


SIMPRI INVESTMENTS Indian banker Avinder Bindra designed a container that, like HCI's, has sliding walls. But his folded containers are stacked vertically instead of horizontally, which he says makes them more balanced and makes it possible to use standard lifting equipment to move the stacks. His company, Simpri Investments, is in the final stages of completing a prototype, he says.