The research and development project T-KER is a collaborative project of Sæplast, Matís, the Iceland Innovation Center, the University of Iceland and the University of Akureyri, ITUB and Icefresh in Germany.
The aim is to develop new transport tanks, which are intended for whole fish, fresh fillets and fillet pieces to begin with, but could easily prove useful for other fresh foods. The design of the new tanks, which are called twin tanks and are stacked in pairs, aims to improve the volume utilization in the back cargo by 60-75% and thereby reduce the transport cost in the back cargo by almost 40%. The tanks, which are expected to be 10-15 cm shallower than traditional 460 L fish tanks, are also intended to preserve fish quality and stacking safety as well or better compared to current tanks for white fish and disposable foam boxes for salmon. The positive environmental impact of the new pots is therefore due to both improved volume utilization in transport and increased use of recyclable packaging instead of disposable packaging.