Solar Panel Transportation Costs & Factors

This assignment examines the various factors that contribute to the cost of transporting solar panels from South Korea to Australia. It delves into the characteristics of the commodity, port infrastructure quality, and the basic structure of solar panel transportation. The analysis also considers key factors influencing the transportation process, such as potential damage during transit due to acceleration forces and movements, alongside traditional cost drivers like fuel, manpower, and maintenance.

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Occupying Sea Routes
The main strength of the shipping industry lies in its ability to move large quantity of the
valuable cargos either through a direct voyage or in one go. For an instance it is seen that in
Australia the cheapest means of transporting the coal is to South Korea. The main drawback is
that the ship is not in a normal speed at which the cruise normally moves and it is expected to be
360 nautical miles per day on an average basis. it is seen that is in the modern days, it is quite
slow to consider that specially that will help the ship to operate in a continuous way without any
break.
Weakness and the strengths of the transportation on air
It has been quite ideal that South Korea often uses the air transport in order to deliver in
Australia the panels that is solar through the air transport as it possess the major strength that is
the speed to travel in comparison to the other modes of transport or communication modes. It can
be said that the longer the distance of the transport through the flight, the greater it saves the time
of the customers. The transport through the airways boasts the safety of the customers as one in
the records. But this does not reduce its weakness in terms of the economy. In case of the freight
a comparison can be drawn with the transports in the sea, that is the air transport is a very
expensive expenditure with that of the ship that has the capacity to carry the cargo in a very
small quantity. The design, packaging, planning and the forecast of the logistics has an
optimization in the containers that are just in some ways different to be utilized in order to
reduce the costs that is essential in providing it with more efficiency in the transportation.
Transportation in a scale globally
From the air and road level of transportation it is seen that it has the highest value of the solar

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components that is used for shipping of the solar panels by the ocean freight. It is also quite
important to provide secured and adequate safety measures that has cost efficient services to their
needs as well. There is a need to make the decision best by helping it to become educated about
the various ways on how the charges of the carriers is required for the international shipping. The
bill of the airlines is considered to be the chargeable weight. The weight that is charged is often
calculated from the combination of the various sizes and weights that can be used for the
shipping industry itself. The charges that is required for per container rates in the sea carriers or
rather for shipping with the use of the standard containers that is usually from the 20 to 40
footers of being with the same common sizes. Instead the weight can be considered as the factor
that is used into the price from the sea carriers that often tends to be based more on the size of
the shipment. For an instance, the South Korea, can be regarded as the one with less shipping
than the loads of the containers that has its price that is often determined by the cubic meters.
The inclusion of heavier and the larger shipments it can be said to be more cheap to ship by the
sea. It is evident that as the shipment gets smaller, the price margins also tries to get smaller and
at one point it can be said that the prices are quite smaller and the air will even end up being less
expensive. The coal that has been transported for an instance from the countries like Australia to
South Korea in order to become the example that is ideal for the shipping industry that will be
especially due to the handling with care and size of the cargo so that it becomes the
transportation choice (Rodrigue, Comtois and Slack 2016).
Reliability
It can be considered as the major factor that is required in order to consider the services
and the products as well. Whether it can be said that the solar panels or the coal that can be
transported through the use of the ocean freight and the air freight that will eventually be stacked

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up against each other. The shipping charges in the air freights are considered to have much
shorter history in comparison to the freights of the sea that will however seem to win the context
in terms of reliability. It can be said that when transporting with the highly sensitive and
sophisticated items that needs to be carefully packed in order to become the solar panels in this
case that is also from South Korea and it can be considered as a wise choice to make that
transportation through air in order to deliver the goods to Australia in regards to the other
relevant factors. There is also a history of the delay in the flights that got delayed due to the
various atmospheric changes that may be due to the bad weather or related to factors like the
technical faults that may be incurred in a very sudden way. It can be said that the airlines have a
tendency to move ahead of the schedules in order to save time so that it will become a definite
factor in order to be pondered over . Through many of the businesses it can be said within a day
or two that the delay has bought a serious impact on the different effects of the cost ( Steefel et
al. 2015).
Bunker fuel prices
From the ministries of transport it is quite evident that the international theories that has
been published is eventually due to the percentages that might get increased in the crude oil
prices and atleast by 0.25% in the increase of the ocean freights. The importance that has been
provided to the paramount of the bunker fuels is primarily in the total costs of the sipping, the
prices of the fuel that is volatile and may have an impact that is tremendous on the overall
charges of the freights.
Characteristics of the Commodity
The different types of the commodity, their sizes and the volumes needs to be all in a play

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that has a comparative higher significant part on the costs of the transportation. When the coal is
being transported and has its solar panels that is between the two different countries that has two
different weights or the cubic volumes that may be required by different holding facilities like
the cargo that may also have a varying implications in the cost. The example of the coal that has
been exported is often in a bulk career vessels or bulk commodity that helps in generally
assisting the facility that has to be allocated in making necessary cargo spaces and holds to carry
the tonnage that is necessary in making their economy in a leading scale as well. Therefore
shipping companies are more willing to shake hands with the freight owners due to the
advantages created by economies of scale and greater certainty regarding utilisation. The
volumes that has low trades often helps in the exportation of the solar panels from South Korea
to Australia that has serviced quite small amount of vessels and that will also help them in
having a better option that will make for an instance the fare of the air freights in a more
increased way rather than reducing the scale of the economy.
Port infrastructure quality
The ports are often incharge of assisting and handling the sea trades that will provide well
the distribution facility and storage that will become a vital exchange in between the trades of
South Korea and Australia.it can be said that as a matter of fact that the investment is quite costly
that will eventually equip the ports with equipment that is for handling the capsize and making
the vessels for the post paramax. While larger ports tend to be more efficient a number of
investigations have suggested that access to ports is considered to be of uttermost importance in
order to reduce transport costs because ocean transport is more efficient cost wise for the sector
of coal transport. It can be said that the size of the freight task, locations and the availability of
loading and unloading facilities and physical restrictions and the availability of backhauls all

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contribute to mode choice decisions and transport costs.
Basic structure of solar panel transportation
In a globalised industry the production that is taking place between South Korea and the different
consumers of Australia has solar panels that are expected to be highly valuable goods and must
be shipped over through the ocean to a very long distance. The shipment container is considered
to have a safe and enclosed package that is made primarily for the transportation of the solar
panels.
Factors in transportation process
The key factors that may be considered is the influence of the high level in the potential
damages to the solar panels that is used during the process of transportation that includes the
acceleration forces as well as the movements. At sea, rolling and pitching tend to create steady
acceleration forces. By comparison rail and road modes tend to produce irregular acceleration
forces as well. The start up of the engines,comering are all switches of the rails. Other
contributing factors to the cost of transport include fuel, manpower, accidents, vehicle and
equipment maintenance, regulatory compliances, accidents, profitability targets and market
share.

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References
Rodrigue, J.P., Comtois, C. and Slack, B., 2016. The geography of transport systems. Taylor &
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Steefel, C.I., Appelo, C.A.J., Arora, B., Jacques, D., Kalbacher, T., Kolditz, O., Lagneau, V.,
Lichtner, P.C., Mayer, K.U., Meeussen, J.C.L. and Molins, S., 2015. Reactive transport codes for
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