TAL International Group, Inc. is a lessor of intermodal containers and chassis. The Company has two segments: Equipment leasing, in which the Company owns, leases and disposes containers and chassis from its lease fleet, as well as manages containers owned by third parties, and Equipment trading, in which the Company purchases containers from shipping line customers, and other sellers of containers, and resells these containers to container traders and users of containers for storage or one-way shipment. As of December 31, 2011, its owned fleet included 1,598,132 twenty-foot equivalent units. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company sold approximately 69,700 twenty-foot equivalent units of its owned containers.