Linde | Tata Group
Linde India with Tata Group imports 24 cryogenic containers for carrying medical oxygen
Kolkata/UNI: Linde India in partnership with Tata group have secured 24 cryogenic containers for carriage of medical oxygen from international sources, according to an official statement.
These containers have arrived by airways to 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 usage.
"Each of these containers, which can carry up to 20 tons of Liquid O2 - 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 storages in remote areas which are facing oxygen scarcity," Linde said in its statement.
"A big thank you to Government of India and the Tata group for their life saving activities," the statement added
"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,"the company said.
Meanwhile, Tata Group tweeted that the first set of 4 cryogenic containers have arrived.
The first set of 4 cryogenic containers have arrived today. We thank the GoI and @IAF_MCC for enabling this, and M/S Linde India for their sourcing support in this collective effort to augment delivery infrastructure of medical oxygen. pic.twitter.com/KGt7xyInFn
— Tata Group (@TataCompanies) April 24, 2021
Earlier, Indian embassy in Singapore tweeted the pictures of the dispatch of the containers.
The transfer of 4 containers of cryogenic oxygen tanks donated by @TataCompanies was moved from Sgp with the excellent and timely interagency efforts between @IAF_MCC @MFAsg , @mindefsg , @SingaporeCAAS , @Linde_Gas @ChangiAirport and @ICA_singapore. 👍🏻🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/dqn6lsq3zy
— India in Singapore (@IndiainSingapor) April 24, 2021
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
