Dana Companies is growing its tank container network with the addition of a depot in Kansas City, Kansas, adjacent to a Union Pacific site.
The new ISO tank depot is expected to open in mid-July.
“We’re excited about it,” Shawn Hensley, Dana regional operations manager in Kansas City, told Bulk Transporter.
Union Pacific already approved an expansion of its rail line onto the property, which will allow container operators and shippers to combine tank fleets currently scattered across the region at one central location, Hensley added. “We’re going to bring them all into one site and then start going after more,” he said.
The new depot is strategically positioned near a 7-acre tank cleaning and rail-to-truck chemical transloading facility Dana acquired six years ago; and a newly acquired plastics transload yard with 85 rail car spots. The overhauled wash rack, which features new equipment from A-One Chemicals and Equipment, currently features two bays with ISO tank cleaning capabilities but soon will add a third; and Dana also plans to add 100 rail car spots at the plastics transload yard, Hensley shared.
“We’re growing,” Hensley said.
“Union Pacific also is getting ready to open a rail yard in Kansas City, close to us, that’s going to serve ISO containers, so it should be a good deal.”
