Container Fleet

Unitpool owns a fleet of 10'212 containers, most of which are still today aluminium.

Lightweight LD3 (ZKE)

Despite the recent truce on hight fuel costs, Lightweight ULDs remain on everyone's mind.  Following discussions with customers and various airlines in the industry during the course of last year, it became apparent that the Lightweight ULD was becoming more a necessity than a choice, not only to save on fuel cost but also as a mean to reduce the airline's carbon footprint. 

Consequently, the Unitpool Board of Directors approved a project to up-grade its current aluminum LD3 fleet to lightweights.  The project includes the following initiatives:

• we are piloting stock from 3 suppliers - these LD3 units are coded ZKE to differentiate them from the rest of the LD3 units - we are working to test additional ZKE from a third supplier, proceeding with our evaluation of the various products
• we aim to set-out an RFP in due course to complete the evaluation process and select a supplier for all future new AKE purchases
• we will embark on a program to retrofit some 4'000 of our existing aluminum LD3, providing a weight reduction of no less than some 11kg per unit

Overall we expect we will be in a position to reduce the weight of our existing LD3 fleet by some 10-15kg per unit, providing substantial savings in fuel to our customers desiring to utilize our ZKE product.