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Tank Containers
B ULK D ISTRIBUTOR
Hoyer, Dupré
start US JV
W
ith around 50 sites worldwide,
representative offices in 115 countries
and partners around the world, Germany-
based Hoyer Group has access to a steadily
growing global network.
The Hamburg logistics group joint ventures with
strong partners are another key component in its
consistent expansion strategy.
Most recently, Hoyer has teamed up with Dupré
Logistics to consolidate its market position on the
North American continent. Hoyer holds 49
percent of the shares in the joint venture under
the name Hoyer Bulk LLC, while US transport
company Dupré owns 51 percent. Dupré is
headquartered in Houston, Texas.
As family-run businesses, both Hoyer and Dupré
place great value on reliability, safety, security and
know-how in handling dangerous goods.
Although primarily operating road transport in
Europe, Hoyer has at its disposal a sophisticated
international network for intermodal traffic linked
to its own business area for overseas traffic. Dupré
specialises in transport operations within the USA.
Together, the joint venture combines the
specialisations of the two companies, thus
enabling seamless order processing and high
transparency. Initial transport movements in the
USA began in January.
Ortwin Nast, Hoyer’s CEO, said of the joint
venture: “Partnership with Dupré is a logical
expansion of our internationally aligned overseas
activities by providing transport services in the
Hoyer will hold 49 percent and Dupré owns 51 percent in the joint venture Hoyer Bulk LLC
USA. We are thus enlarging our portfolio of
services to meet the growing demand for
transport capacities in the American market.”
For Dupré Logistics, company president Mike
Weindel added: “It is important to us to know we
have at our side a partner that also represents
customised logistics and technology solutions. We
also give the highest priority to transparency and
dependability in our operations. Hoyer has the
same understanding, as we immediately noticed.”
Sustainability
Late last year, Hoyer published its sustainability
report covering activities in 2018.
The report states that as part of the internal
corporate target to reduce CO2 emissions by 25
percent per ton-kilometre, Hoyer achieved a 4
percent reduction of pollutant emissions
compared with 2017. This represented an
improvement of more than 20 percent within
scarcely a decade. Ortwin Nast stated: “This puts
Hoyer well on the way to achieving the
environmental targets that we have set.”
The improved environmental performance has
been achieved due to several factors, one of
which is to move the maximum possible volume
of goods by intermodal transport, using the
company’s fleet of over 40,000 tank containers.
Hoyer has constantly expanded its fleet for this
January/February 2020
purpose. Its Smart tanks enable more efficient
resource planning, decreasing the number of
empty runs, as well as reducing costs. Fitting
tanks with sensors provides discrepancy alarms
and considerably improves transport security.
Investments in vehicles with Euro-6 engines also
have a positive effect on performance. Almost
100 percent of Hoyer’s trucks in Europe are
scheduled to be equipped with this drive
technology by this year. The logistics specialist is
also trialling the use of LNG and CNG trucks with
significantly lower emission engines.
The intensification of staff training to prevent
accidents, together with correct behaviour in
emergencies led to a reduced rate of serious
incidents. Training time of drivers was increased to
30 hours per person in 2018, almost double from
2017.
Hoyer sees great potential in further
digitalisation, especially investments in intelligent
logistics solutions which will be a main focus to
increase efficiency and quality, and to improve
customer service and environmental performance.
Among other things, the company intends to
maximise payloads even further, reduce empty
runs and improve fuel consumption by using
larger interrelated volumes of data.
www.hoyer-group.com
ITCO donates to
Chinese university
T
he International Tank Container
Organisation (ITCO) has donated a 20ft
ISO tank container to Shanghai Maritime
University, China’s leading academic
institution for the shipping, ports and
logistics industry.
The tank will be used by the University for
training and education purposes as part of a
programme that includes six one-day training
days, together with access by students to ITCO’s
on-line Tank Container E-learning Course.
The donation ceremony took place at Shanghai
Maritime University in November 2019, when the
ITCO/SMU co-operative and donation agreements
were formally signed by SMU’s vice-president Shi
Xin and ITCO’s president Reginald Lee.
The tank was provided by ITCO member Exsif
Worldwide, with the fittings supplied by Fort Vale
Engineering. The tank’s manufacturer CIMC
The tank will be used by the Shanghai Maritime University for training
and education
prepared the tank for the University and built the
access ladder and walkway. Technical expertise
and logistics were supplied by Stolt Tank Depots.
www.itco.org
Shi Xin, vice-president of Shanghai Maritime University (right) and Reginald Lee, president of ITCO sign the co-operation and donation agreement