Container Transport
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just a few moments connecting up by the driver will ensure a secure load.
The devices are securing chains which are connected to the lower corner castings and the vehicle platform or chassis, and tightened by a simple tensioner and securing rods which are connected to the top corner castings and then linked with the platform or chassis by the tensioner. Specially designed lugs on the rods and chains slip into the corner castings and cannot be dislodged once the chains are tensioned. The chains are easily and quickly adjusted in the tensioner which is tightened by a screw handwheel.
These are not the only such securing devices on the market but they illustrate the simplicity with which containers can be adequately secured to reduce the risk of damage to the container, its contents or the vehicle. using specially built lagged and coiled ISO tank-containers.
The first load, 20 tons of fatty acid, was taken from Dusseldorf to Rotterdam by an Irotank vehicle and shipped by the m.v. Europic Ferry to Felixstowe where the container, carried as deck cargo, was loaded on to a Tyburn trailer for delivery to Liverpool.
After steam cleaning at Tyburn's northern depot, the container was shipped back through Felixstowe to the Continent to collect a cargo of wine from Logrono, northern Spain.