Bertschi receives safety award from Covestro

Bertschi Global AG has won the Covestro Asia Pacific ‘Innovation in Transportation Safety’ award for its ‘Outstanding Initiative for Transportation Safety Improvement’. As part of the Safety Champion Program, Covestro honours logistics service providers for outstanding initiatives in improving safety standards. With an innovative tank container design, Bertschi is setting new safety and efficiency standards for the global logistics of liquid chemical products.

Bertschi received the award in the ‘Innovation in Transportation Safety’, being awarded for the highest safety and quality standards of their global deep-sea tank container fleet. Each container is equipped with collapsible handrails and 100% walkway coverage, the combination of which ensures a safe working environment when on top of the container.

Bertschi was the first operator to devise this innovative design as permanent installation and apply it to the total fleet of global tank containers. As a result, no working-at-height accidents were recorded since the fleet of currently over 9,000 tank containers was put into global operations. The design is appreciated by shippers and receivers of chemicals as well as all other parties involved in the container handling. The innovative design of the containers is also setting new safety and efficiency standards for the global transportation of liquid chemical products.

General Manager Bertschi Asia-Pacific (Shanghai), William Leigh-Pemberton said: “This prize is a wonderful recognition for the measures we implemented to ensure a safe working environment for all parties involved. Bertschi would like to thank Covestro for this award and will strongly continue to support initiatives for more safety in chemical logistics. We are looking forward to an ongoing fruitful collaboration in the coming years.”

For more information visit www.bertschi.com

26th March 2017