“If you’ve got Walmart, their purchasing
ability with ocean freight companies is huge,
so a large customer like that would come to
us with ocean-rate contracts already in
place,” Sims said. “In that scenario, we might
just do supply of the bags, the fitting of the
bags and the local trucking to and from the
port.”
Going forward, one of EPT’s will make its
largest contribution to change the face of
transportation by providing additional tank
sizes that can be utilized with multiple
modes of transportation. This changes the
landscape of export focus by providing
domestic solutions to save aswell.
The flexitank business has generally been
driven on 20-foot containers, but smaller
flexitanks are available that can be fit in any
size trailers – which provides companies
other alternatives to ship indifferent sizes.
Additionally, in a typical scenario, when a
tanker truck is loaded in Houston and
delivered to Denver, it returns to Houston
empty. EPT’s Big Red Liquiride flexitanks
allow the same customer to unload the
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AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Environmental Packaging
Technologies
WHAT:
Global solutions provider for the transport
and storage of bulk products, with services
including packaging supply/installation,
loading and unloading, product transfer,
product stewardship, removal-disposal
-recycling and full logistics
WHERE:
Headquarters in Houston,
Texas; manufacturing base
in Zeeland, Mich.
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