FUEL TRANSPORT--THE FLEXITANK ALTERNATIVE

The use of flexitanks fitted inside standard containers to carry fuel, as an alternative to normal tanker vehicles, has proved to be useful innovation in one land-locked country, Malawi in Southern Africa. The main advantage is that non-specialized rail and road vehicles carrying fuel can return with payloads of non-fuel cargo, instead of an empty backhaul. As the distances and costs are relatively large, the opportunity for cost savings is correspondingly important.

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  Transportation Research Forum

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• Authors:
  • KURZMAN, H P
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 291-292
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Freight transportation; Fuels; Innovation
• Geographic Terms: Malawi
• Old TRIS Terms: Flexitanks; Fuel transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Freight Transportation; Highways; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00490233
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 044
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1989 12:00AM