An investment in stainless steel tank containers provides you with a unique, legal and unlimited financial instrument to convert your Rands to foreign currency, which can be retained in the offshore account of your choice.

This is still the only legal and effective mechanism to externalise any amount of your wealth (for instance, assets swaps provide this in terms of income, but the capital eventually has to be reconverted back to Rand).

Of importance, this investment is not related to your R2 million foreign investment allowance, and therefore your potential is unlimited.

Investment in tank containers was approved as an offshore investment in the 1980's by the South Africa Authorities (Reserve Bank, Dept of Trade and Industry, and SARS) as it achieved various essential national objectives:

1.	Ability for South African residents to earn foreign currency income legally through a unique Rand-hedge offshore investment, the Reserve Bank maintaining control of the asset, by approved management companies managing the investment in toto in accordance with the-then strict Exchange Control regulations.
2.	Promotion of an ideal export product, a sought-after high-specification finished product, being the ultimate in value-added processing of South Africa's raw materials (stainless steel, carbon steel, aluminium, paint, etc) with an international market.
3.	Achievement of specific enhancements to the South African economy, through much needed expansion of heavy metal industry, increased employment of skilled labour, and non-trade related foreign currency inflows of tank rentals over a period of years.

PTS obtained approval in July 1993 to set up a tank container investment management operation, and has managed about 800 tank containers for 160 South African investors.

Unlike other investment managers, we have always offered a unique niche-market investment, one in which traditional variables and unknowns have been removed, where at all possible. Thus a lease with a specific lessee for specific tanks is signed, providing for:

• a known fixed period of lease (the period of investment)



• a known daily Dollar income during this period, irrespective of utilisation by lessee



• all known operating costs to be borne by the lessee.

In practice, under this arrangement...

...PTS identifies tank container operators, located overseas, who had a specific need

...determine the operators' tank specification and delivery timing,

...establish production capability, capacity and best pricing with local tank container manufacturer Welfit Oddy,

...negotiate lease terms with the tank operator for a specific quantity of tanks for a known period and daily rental (365 days p.a.), with all operating costs, maintenance and repairs being for operators' account.

Based on these terms, this investment is then offered to South African investor clients like yourself.

Thus, you would purchase the tank containers through ourselves, and then enter into a Management Agreement for us to manage the investment, to manage the lease of the tank containers offshore, to collect rental income and distribute it to you on a quarterly basis, to provide quarterly and annual reports to you and to ensure strict compliance with regulatory requirements in terms of the Exchange Control authority given to PTS.

Two important developments since then have taken place, which have permitted this long-term Rand-hedge investment to be transformed into a unique financial instrument, enabling you to externalise your Rands - legally, efficiently, and securely:

• Until July 1997, all tank container rental income had to be repatriated, converted from Dollars and distributed in Rand. However, with the relaxation of exchange controls for individuals in July 1997, allowing direct foreign investment up to R250,000 (now R2 million), another important relaxation also took place - all income earned abroad could now be retained in foreign currency.
  
  This meant that tank container income could now be received and retained in foreign currency offshore!



• Secondly, in April 2000, PTS obtained approval from the Reserve Bank to structure an investment based on a lease purchase, whereby the ultimate user/lessee of the tank containers could acquire ownership at the end of the lease purchase period for a fixed sale price.
  
  This now provided our investors with an extra special opportunity - all rental income could be retained offshore in foreign currency, and only the final sale price being repatriated. In brief then, you could now invest Rands, and earn a Dollar income stream that handsomely equates to your initial investment, plus a fair return in Dollar terms, with all rentals now being legally retained offshore!

So, to summarise then, you have the ideal opportunity through this unique financial instrument to benefit from the following: an ideal tool to externalise your Rand wealth - legally, efficiently, and securely. And more than that, an open-ended one - not limited in any way by your R2 million offshore investment allowance the underlying security through ownership of a hard asset with an international value - not a piece of paper! the financial terms known at inception, set out in a signed agreement, securing known dollar income for a specified period - no hidden costs. And then, we also have been able to achieve the following with our latest tank investment packages: an extremely secure income stream a competitive externalisation rate that is based on the Rand at current levels - where it is grossly overvalued rate (as we set out below)!

You, no doubt too, would have noticed, that the sentiment tide has turned on the Rand.

This turn is no surprise to us - from the in-depth study we initiated during 2003/2004, and as set out in our resultant Executive Summary, it was clear the Rand's strength was unsustainable, just as its excursion above R10.00 (on its way to R13.50 for a few short hours) was unsustainable in 2001/2002, and that foreign inflows would ultimately reverse once the warning signs started flashing!

The most recent update of this study (May 2008) reveals that the Rand's true competitive level is R8.10 - R12.95 to the Dollar, at present, and that recognising international trade competitive fundamentals, it is likely to continue weakening in the medium term.

On careful reflection, doesn't this provide an exciting opportunity for you?

By converting your wealth at present Rand rates (and being able to do it legally, efficiently and securely), you will not only have secured the means to place your wealth offshore, but also exploited an opportunity to ensure an increment in Rand-related wealth through Rand exchange movement by the end of the lease purchase period.

Do yourself a favour and and contact us NOW to find out more - we look forward to assisting you to secure the means you need to protect your wealth.

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