CS Leasing, a global multi-product container leasing and trading company serving more than 200 customers around the world from blue chip global operators to small niche logistics providers, has rapidly scaled its operations in recent years.
Formed in 2015, the company operates a fleet of more than 35,000 tanks and a range of 25 different container types, including dries, refrigerated and dry freight specials. As such, CS Leasing is able to offer diverse and tailored short- and long-term lease and ownership options. Now ranked 4th largest tank lessor in the 2025 ITCO global tank container fleet survey, CS Leasing continues its year-on-year growth supported by the implementation of MRI Container Lease Management.
With offices in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and with representatives in the Middle East and the Indian Sub-Continent, CS Leasing has built a truly global network of offices, agents and representatives that allow it to serve its worldwide customers and provide specific regional knowledge and expertise when it is needed.
Led by a seasoned management team drawn from all fields of container leasing including finance, procurement, operations and marketing, CS Leasing’s customers benefit from decades-long deep industry knowledge and expertise.
Since our launch in 2015, we have focused on building a strong platform for growth, and our measured expansion programme has helped us steadily grow our balanced portfolio of solutions. We aim to be the partner of choice for our customers and vendors, working together to find best-fit solutions that meet their financial and logistical needs. As a globally distributed team managing a diverse fleet, reliable systems are non-negotiable.
-Tim May, Chief Operating Officer at CS Leasing.
“MRI Container Lease Management is central to how we operate – it delivers real-time visibility, ensures accurate billing, and supports our trading and leasing businesses across all container types. As we reflect on the last decade, we now have a multi-product platform for future scalability and growth, and are confident that we are ideally positioned to help our customers scale and build their own businesses. Customers always have a choice, so CS Leasing continue to strive to also deliver great customer service,” commented Tim.
Robust IT systems are essential for a complex business such as CS Leasing, so they can manage their fleet, meet governance requirements and maintain efficient and agile operations. The management teams from CS Leasing and iInterchange, now part of MRI software, have a long and successful history. When Container Lease Management was launched, CS Leasing came on board as an early adopter and were confident of a quality product that would be developed to a high standard.
The MRI Container Lease Management platform is suitable for businesses of all sizes and supports end-to end operations from container procurement to sale. Clients benefit from the platform’s lease management module, its comprehensive billing, procurement and sale functions, its smart alerts and built-in EDI exchange function.
We have now been using MRI Container Lease Management to manage our business for many years, and it forms a critical and integral part of our overall IT strategy, interfacing seamlessly with our whole IT suite. MRI Container Lease Management is a complete solution, which also supports our container trading business too.
-Mike Krengle, VP Operations.
With ongoing developments to the platform in recent years, the CS Leasing team can depend on this reliable and robust system. “MRI Container Lease Management offers key functions that allow us to efficiently produce quick and accurate billing and reliable real-time data – both of which are key in ensuring corporate governance and meeting our audit requirements. And because it is a web-based solution, our offices all over the world can access it, enabling efficient co-working and business management” continued Mike.
“MRI Container Lease Management is fully integrated into our day-to-day operations and gives us 24/7 real time data – it really is fundamental to our operations and is the backbone of all we do. We are a small team that manages a diverse, global fleet, so it is vital that our systems don’t let us down, and MRI Container Lease Management certainly doesn’t. In addition to our 36,000 ISO Tanks, we have around 14,000 dry, reefer and dry freight special containers, so we need to manage all our container types using the MRI Container Lease Management platform.
“Efficient, scalable and fully integrated IT systems are key to all our business initiatives and will allow us to successfully build further scale” concluded Tim.
We are proud to support CS Leasing through their growth journey. MRI Container Lease Management has allowed CS Leasing to scale up their business and create an excellent platform for ongoing growth – our flexible and innovative technology is designed for businesses just like CS Leasing.
-Richard Shaw, Managing Director for Intermodal at MRI Software.