What We Do
Those looking for storage never pay a fee to The Tank Tiger!
The Tank Tiger is an independent brokerage and consulting clearinghouse finding worldwide terminal storage for suppliers and producers of liquid and dry bulk commodities. Customers worldwide use The Tank Tiger as their broker in finding competitive and strategic storage. In essence, The Tank Tiger is a clearinghouse for all market activity that requires terminaling and midstream asset logistical services.
The commodities industry is constantly reinventing itself with changes to products, trade flows, participants and volumes. The enormous growth in the midstream and terminal storage industry has quasi-commoditized what these assets offer to the marketplace. A brokerage function can improve the efficiency of this process. The founders and staff at The Tank Tiger have recognized, and are stepping up, to satisfy the prevailing need created by the excitement and opportunity of these changes. We’re kind of like Uber for storage tanks. Think of it as Stubhub, Priceline and Match.com all rolled into one.
The Tank Tiger was created in 2015 in order to serve as a single point of contact for parties who desire terminal services and are looking for companies who own these assets that provide these competent services. Using an unprecedented database of personal contacts and established commercial relationships, The Tank Tiger can facilitate and reduce market inefficiencies and illiquidity by providing this service.
By acting as an intermediary, The Tank Tiger can provide anonymity on both sides of the transaction until the affected parties are connected, thus bringing a credible presence to this undernourished brokering requirement in the growing tank storage marketplace. The Tank Tiger has the advantage of having market knowledge and information through their unbiased neutral position in the market.
If desired, The Tank Tiger client benefits from standing behind the curtain of anonymity that The Tank Tiger can provide. As a result, other potential participants in the market are unaware of the client’s trading knowledge or intentions. We’ve all seen what happens to prices when a large producer or consumer bellies up to the market causing volatility and potential uncertainty. The Tank Tiger service is based on long standing relationships, trusted partnerships, uncompromising integrity and open lines of communication. We are confident that these relationships will continue. You can always find The Tank Tiger team, via phone, text message, email, ICE messenger, or hopefully someday over a burger or beer.
If you are a trader looking for storage, talk to us. If you are presently leasing storage and are considering a sub-lease, we can get that done. If you are an end user or distributor looking for a terminal location for truck through putting or product exchange, we can help you. If you are a terminal seeking the aforementioned customers, look no further than The Tank Tiger. This is what The Tank Tiger is all about – making things happen, getting people together to find the win/win, building and sustaining relationships and growing commerce in a friendly professional manner.
The Tank Tiger is in the market day in and day out, constantly monitoring the activity in order to identify parties interested in taking on storage. Commodities traders holding underutilized tank leases can use The Tank Tiger to find another entity looking to sub-lease this storage on a spot or term basis in order to reduce holding cost of tankage. We work on commission basis per closed contract, whereby the ‘seller’ pays a standard commission per contracted volume. Those looking for storage never pay a fee to the Tank Tiger!
Our mission is a gentle but relentless pursuit of our clients’ goals. We are guided by our integrity and the desire to leverage our solid and credible relationships so that our clients can share in trusted partnerships. Removing inefficiency from the market is a rising tide for all boats.
Our portfolio contains a large number of suppliers of petroleum products or crude oil, searching for storage on a long term or short term basis. The Tank Tiger provides as much service as required between the storage terminals and the suppliers to get your deal done. Our team is committed to connecting the best storage facilities to the most credible suppliers.
Major markets served include: products from unfinished oils, such as crude oil and refinery intermediates, to finished products such as gasoline, jet-fuel, heating-oil and biofuels. The Tank Tiger provides price discovery, transaction efficiency and is always available for market commentary services to a wide variety of customers – including oil companies, refined products producers, petroleum refineries, independents, marketers, traders, industry scribes, investment banks, private equity funds and hedge funds.
There is no job too big or too small for The Tank Tiger and we look forward to discussing and meeting your needs in the terminal storage marketplace, whatever they may be.
Why Work With Us
By acting as an intermediary, The Tank Tiger can provide anonymity on both sides of the transaction until the affected parties are connected thus bringing a credible presence to this undernourished brokering requirement in the growing tank storage marketplace.
If you are a terminal operator, new to the market or seeking more reach or access to the market, The Tank Tiger can bring customers to your terminal gate and help you establish long lasting relationships with these users of tank storage. The Tank Tiger will bring customers to lease your storage, or trucks to your rack to bolster your throughput.
If you own midstream logistical assets such as railcars or short line track, we can connect you with transportation specialists who are in need of railcars to move commodities or track to store their unutilized railcars.
If you are a wholesale marketer, looking for tank and rack space to grow your business, The Tank Tiger can find the ideal location and terminal operator to fit your needs.
If you are a crude oil or products trader and have a long term storage contract that you don’t need to utilize right now, wouldn’t you love to sublease this storage to take the edge off of your monthly cost? Who has the time to look for a tenant? The Tank Tiger – that’s who. There’s no one better in the business. You can continue to do your job while The Tank Tiger goes to work. The Tank Tiger can anonymously market your tankage, and find a new tenant willing to take on your sublease, with The Tank Tiger taking care of all of your paperwork and potential headaches so you can focus on what you do best.
The growth in the Terminal Storage business has been driven in recent years by the desire for equity investors to own securities which provide a stable income stream. The Master Limited Partnership (MLP) has been the primary vehicle for this growth and capital has been pouring in. This unprecedented growth has changed the marketplace and not all of this change has been readily appreciated or acknowledged by those who seek terminaling services. Much of the asset growth affiliated with these MLP’s has come from long term storage contracts which guaranteed a desirable return for companies seeking to expand their asset base. So what you have is a dynamic and sometimes volatile market demand (traders and end users) seeking flexibility and optionality from a more rigid asset map.
