Thanks for visiting us. We trust that you will find this site informative and useful in assisting you in your investment decisions. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a bit of an overview and a summary of what you can achieve with our uniquely structured product.

Premier Tank Solutions (PTS) - formerly named Paynter Trade Services - is a specialist tank container investment management company, based in South Africa. We operate with the specific approval of the South African Reserve Bank, which authorises us to sell tank containers to South African and international investor clients, to lease these tanks overseas for foreign trade and to manage the offshore investment in every respect on behalf of our clients. The Company has operated its investment business since 1993 and, through steady growth of its investor client base and overseas lessee base, has managed almost 800 tank containers.

The management team have ensured that we have the necessary skills and experience to handle the various and complex aspects of this business, such as business management, tax planning, foreign exchange, exchange controls, asset financing, tank container industry know-how, technical knowledge, banking and systems integration.

Our Company motto is "To Provide Management Excellence and Unique Investor Tank Solutions" and is backed up by a long track record of and commitment to integrity, reliability, quality, safety and accuracy in every aspect of our operation, with the result that our clients receive a service unequalled in the South African tank container investment industry.

Unlike other investment managers, we have always offered a value-added and unique niche-market investment, one in which traditional variables and unknowns have been removed, where possible. The services we can offer can be summarised as follows:

Investment With the PTS structure - the ultimate Rand hedge - you are able to invest Rands and earn Dollars (which can be retained offshore), and have the comfort of a known income for a known period, minimal and known costs, and where possible, known options at the end of the investment period.

Leasing Through PTS lease structure, our lessee clients (users/operators or tank container leasing companies) are able to acquire tank container equipment, built to their specification, with flexible lease and lease purchase options.

Product Here you will find details about tank containers such as standard specification, tank types, products carried, comparisons between tank containers and alternative forms of liquid transport, useful for both investors and lessees.

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Watch this space! Our limited client access area allows you, as an investor client, to view your investment documentation online, and additional useful information is planned for this area like tax tables, interest rates, etc