Bitumen Packing Comparison
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BULK SHIPMENTS (Bitumen Vessel – Terminal – Tanker) | Used (or) New Drums | Poly Bags | |
| Shipping Method | Special Bitumen Vessels – Heated Cargo | Standard Shipping Containers 18MT-20MT per Container | Standard Shipping Container 20mt per container |
| Shipping Availability/Reliability | Limited availability, cyclical supply | Excellent | Excellent |
| Shipping Cost | Expensive, freights vary with demand, difficult to budget for long term projects. | Affordable | Affordable |
| Storage | Extremely capital intensive in bulk terminals, high operating costs, major overheads | Standard Warehouses or directly on site | Standard Warehouses or directly on site |
| Handling | Bulk road tankers to deliver directly on site. Expensive but swift. | Forklifts, 5-6 drums/mt. Used Drums can leak. New drums if mishandled may break as well.Damaged drums that do not break will become difficult to decant. | 3.5ton Fork lifts can handle 2 x 1mt bags at a time. All bags double slinged and self-stabilizing. Can go straight from container to Melter in one move. Highly efficient handling. |
| Ground Transport | Expensive Bitumen Tankers – cargo continuously heated. | Standard trailers, can visit remote locations in smaller flat beds as well. Cheap and affordable. | Standard trailers, can visit remote locations in smaller flat beds as well. Cheap and affordable. |
| Wastage | Certain revolving %age will always remain in the vessel, terminal tank and road tanker. A direct loss. | 3-5% is always left in the drum and is wasted. | Inner lining is completely consumable. 100% of transported cargo is consumed. |
| Decanting / Melting | Product is always in liquid state, easy and immediate decanting. | Each drum has to be cut open (often manually). This is an arduous and inefficient task. Messy and often product is left behind in the drum. | Simple. Outer bag is cut away and the inner lining and cargo is melted in one go. |
| Environmental Impact | Large carbon footprint for entire supply chain as energy is used to keep the cargo heated throughout. | Very Poor as a steel drum has to be produced for just 160 – 180kg of bitumen. A 1000mt project results in 5000+ empty drums to be disposed of. The used drums will have bitumen residue that will inevitably pollute the ground and storage/scrap | Inner lining is 100% consumable and outer lining is 100% recyclable. |
| Other Points | Expensive, large carbon footprint and huge capital needs to be invested into a distribution chain that should be obsolete by now. | Old drums could cross contaminate the bitumen. New Drums are expensive. | Triple layered technology and an outer woven polypropylene bag ensures chance of leakage is negated. |