Trina Solar introduces brand-new packaging solution focused on cutting shipping costs

• Trina Solar has exposed a brand-new freight packing service for its bigger modules that it stated will decrease the costs associated with delivery that have actually soared because the start of the pandemic.

The solution includes packing the modules vertically, as opposed to horizontally, to maximise area within the shipping container. It can be applied to its 600W+ Vertex modules, saving clients US$ 0.003 c/W on a fully filled container, stated Trina Solar.

Sky-high freight costs become part of the reason why the cost of modules has risen over the past year, with strong need not being met comparable supply adhering to the pandemic, resulting in a ten-fold rise in delivery prices sometimes.

Zhang Yingbin, Trina Solar head of item technique and also advertising and marketing, said the brand-new option can increase filling power by 10% and room utilisation by 5%, compared with standard horizontal packaging.

"Each time of climbing delivery costs, this remedy saves US$ 0.003 c/W on maritime freight prices, presuming that a container is totally loaded with 558 modules and also each module is 660W, calculated at the existing mainstream price of US$ 10,000 per container," said Yingbin, with Trina including that the financial savings can vary with port freight price.

The upright packaging approach passed the International Safe Transport Association (ISTA) 3E worldwide product packaging test and also will certainly help reduce the level of CO2 emitted from voyages, Trina Solar claimed.