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Tank container depot capabilities include 21 drop-deck container chassis and storage space for up to 400 containers.

Tank container depot capabilities include 21 drop-deck container chassis and storage space for up to 400 containers.

With seven transload sites in California and Arizona, Ventura Transfer has become one of the largest West Coast intermodal operators. The company also operates a full-service tank container depot and a packaged chemical warehouse at its Long Beach CA headVentura Transfer’s management team includes [standing from left to right] Steve Clifford, transloading & engineering manager; Jim Cheney, safety, compliance & environmental manager; Brian Oken, president and CEO; Tina Alvarez, account services manager; JoVentura transfer’s fleet operation received several awards in 2009 for outstanding safety performance. The awards were recognition for a program designed to ensure that safety is a way of life in the fleet operation.A majority of the Ventura Transfer transloading locations have truck scales for weighing outbound shipments.Alonso Vera, a loader at the Long Beach CA transload terminal, loosens the valve cap on a tankcar prior to a product transfer.
Jeff McLaughlin, a Ventura Transfer driver, connects a transfer hose to a tank trailer at the Long Beach CA transload terminal.Ventura Transfer’s heavy lift transfers a hazardous waste container from a chassis to a railcar at the Long Beach CA terminal.A four-bay chemical wash rack at the Long Beach CA terminal can clean tank trailers and tank containers used transport a wide range of products transported.Tank container depot capabilities include 21 drop-deck container chassis and storage space for up to 400 containers.About 30% of the trailers in the Ventura Transfer fleet are high-cube pneumatic bulkers that are used to transport a variety of plastic pellets and powders.
Microbulk tanks supply nitrogen used to pressure offload various chemicals from rail tankcars.Ventura Transfer assembled its own trailer-mounted boiler units that are used to steam heat railcar cargoes before transloading.

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