Linde India and Tata Group secure 24 oxygen transport tanks for India
Linde India and Tata Group have secured 24 cryogenic containers for the carriage of medical oxygen which will be used in the country’s fight against COVID-19.
This will bolster the delivery infrastructure for medical oxygen.
“These containers have arrived by airways to the eastern part of India, from where Linde would be transporting them to their liquid oxygen manufacturing facility. At the Linde facility, these cryogenic ISO containers would be conditioned and certified for liquid medical oxygen (LMO) usage,” it said.
The containers, which can carry up to 20 tonnes of liquid oxygen, will be used by Linde to pick up oxygen from various manufacturing facilities and deliver it to hospitals where required. These ISO containers can also act as interim oxygen stores in remote areas which are facing oxygen scarcity.
A statement from the company continued: “Since the onset of the pandemic, Linde has been committed to finding innovative solutions and partnering in ventures that enable the faster supply of medical oxygen.
“From partnering with government of India to airlift cryogenic road tankers from Delhi for filling liquid oxygen at Linde’s oxygen plant in Durgapur and get the much-needed medical oxygen to Delhi to working with Indian Railways to ferry empty tankers on the ‘Oxygen Express’ from Kalamboli, Maharashtra to Vizag, where the tankers will be filled with liquid oxygen and sent back to Maharashtra.”
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17th May 2021
