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title: "Container loading for liquid syrups: how do you secure your flexitanks? — LiangduSyrup"
url: "https://liangdusyrup.com/forum/container-loading-for-liquid-syrups-how-do-you-secure-your-flexitanks/"
date: 2026-08-18
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# Container loading for liquid syrups: how do you secure your flexitanks?

Liquid sweeteners travel either in drums or flexitanks, and both have their failure modes. 🚛

Our experience: flexitanks need a **venting plan** (pressure differential across the equator is real), and drum loads need **tied rows**, not gravity. One under-secured row shifts a 20-foot load on a rough North Pacific crossing.

![syrup loading](https://liangdusyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/maltose-inline1-10.jpg)

FormatKey controlPurposeDrumsStrapped rowsAvoid corner impactFlexitankVent before sealPrevent bulge/leakIBCTop-heavy checkStack limitLabel directionOutward, legibleInspection speedHow do you load your liquid consignments — drums, IBCs or flexitanks? And what does your forwarder flag most often? 💬