LAF Flexitank for Edible Oil Transportation

Steady increase in the global production of edible oils, reaching a peak of 209 million metric tons by 2021, with soybean oil the leading oil produced in 2021. The most common oil types include soybean oil, palm oil, canola oil and sunflower oil. The use of flexitanks in the field of edible oil is also increasing year by year. Compared with traditional transportation methods, flexitanks transportation reduces the overall transportation cost, thereby increasing the profit of the entire edible oil industry. Flexitanks replace traditional transportation methods for the transportation of edible oil, which has become an inevitable trend in the development of bulk liquid transportation.

The flexitank is significantly less expensive than the more commonly used ISO tanks. Because flexitank no need rent, no cleaning cost, sufficient supply of 20ft container. Flexitanks offer lower transport costs than both the IBC and drums, especially in the current special period of wildly rising ocean freight, every additional ton oil per trip is saving freight for customers. One Flexitank in 20ft container can transport up to 25KL of oil per trip, IBC and drums in a 20ft container just can transport up to 20KL per trip, so in the case of transporting the same amount of oil, flexitank can save 20% ocean freight. When using Flexitanks, you can increase your payload and therefore your profits as flexitanks offer 15% MORE per payload than IBC totes and 40% MORE payload than drums.

The cost savings of flexitank transportation of edible oil compared with traditional transportation methods cannot be underestimated, take peanut oil as an example. As we all know, China is a big producer and consumer of peanut and peanut oil. The consumption of peanut oil accounts for about 8%-10%. The consumption ranks fourth, second only to soybean oil, palm oil and vegetable oil, and has the highest price. The domestic annual output and annual consumption of the bulk fats and oils are above 3 million tons. As a high-end oil product, the annual consumption of peanut oil is steadily increasing at a rate of about 5%, flexitank is the mainstream transportation method for peanut oil, each flexitank can load up to 23 tons of peanut oil, and an entire 20-foot container of IBC can load 18 tons. If all 300,000 tons of peanut oil are transported in flexitanks, about 13,000 flexitanks (containers) need to be used. All of which are transported by IBC, In this case, 16,000 containers need to be transported, which is equivalent to saving the freight of 3,000 containers every year . Under the trend of wild increase in ocean freight, the freight of 3,000 containers is a huge cost, which saves a lot expense for the entire peanut oil industry.

It is particularly important to choose a trustworthy flexitank manufacturer, LAF Flexitanks are made with PE film blown with 100% virgin resins. All production is carried out in full accordance with requirements of FSSC22000, ISO9001, and meeting food safety regulation issued by FDA and EU directives about plastic packaging coming into direct contact with food stuff. All incoming materials testing and production are conducted accordance with publicly available industry standard PAS1008: 2018. LAF Flexitank will be your best choice for edible oils transportation.