TSA is an industry based organisation whose members are dedicated to the professional provision of third party bulk liquid storage in the UK. Products stored typically include crude oil, petroleum and chemicals as well as potable liquids, edible oils and fats. Receipt and delivery of these products takes place by means of sea transport, inland barge, road, rail and cross country pipeline. Tank storage thus provides an essential interface between these various modes of transport. The industry also provides additional services, such as heating, blending and transformation of these products so that the diverse requirements of customers can be effectively met in a safe and cost effective way.

Products stored are for third parties and our member companies generally do not own the products they store.

TSA’s role is to champion the needs of its membership in Safety, Health, Environmental and Technical matters. One of the ways in which this is achieved is through our representation on a number of key industry groups, including HSE’s Chemical and Downstream Oil Industries Forum; DECC’s Downstream Oil Industry Forum; and several of the Energy Institute’s technical committees.

TSA is also a member of the Federation of European Tank Storage Associations, FETSA, which is headquartered in Brussels with responsibility for monitoring EU issues which have an impact on the bulk liquid storage industry. It also fosters cross sector links, an example of a recent activity in this area is the work undertaken by FETSA, CEFIC, CONCAWE and FECC on the development of the IPPC-BREF on storage.

TSA Statistics

• 44 terminals
• 0.56 million road movements
• 5.2 million m³ of storage capacity
• 28 rail loading points
• 2.1 thousand stock tanks
• 3 thousand rail movements
• 19.5 million tonnes of annual throughput
• 105 ships berths
• 1.0 thousand road loading points
• 7.8 thousand sea movements