This article is mainly focus on the transportation issues of lithium battery, this article introduces the lithium battery channels from different factors such as the time, cost, safety to compare their advantages and disadvantages of the different transport ways, I hope this article will help the photovoltaic wholesalers and battery importers, distributors, after reading it, you can choose the suitable way for your Solar energy storage batteries
1. Express Delivery: UPS, DHL, Fedex
This type of Courier Services Companies does not provide the transportation service of residential energy storage batteries, and can only support small charged product batteries, such as lithium batteries of Bluetooth headphones, button batteries, etc. Because residential energy storage batteries are weighing more than 50kg, express companies refuse to provide transportation services for such products due to safety considerations.
2. Air Cargo Service(From airport to airport)
Air Cargo Service provides a high speed service with a high cost, the price is about 10-20USD/kg. Apart from the price, there are also many limitations. Lots of airlines do not carry large-capacity batteries, and even if there are airlines to undertake, it still depends on the customs clearance policy of the destination airport.
For example:
Commodity: A 50kg LESSO Residential Rack Energy Storage
Air route: Hong Kong - South Africa
Delivery time: 3-7 Days
Cost: 50kg*17USD/kg=850USD
Therefore, Air Cargo Service is suitable for large order customers who want to confirm pre-production samples as soon as possible, not for clients who have strict freight cost control.
3. Air Cargo Delivery Duty Paid(Directly to your designated destination)
Delivery Duty Paid can be abbreviated as DDP, which means that the seller is responsible for all taxes and other fees during the whole transportation process and delivers the goods directly to the place designated by the buyer. This delivery plan has the same problems as the Air Cargo Service, it’s severely impacted by the customs clearance policy of the destination country.
4. Shipping Delivery Duty Paid(Directly to your designated destination)
As same as Air Cargo DDP, you just need to place an order, provide some information like address and postcode, then you can wait at home and do nothing. Besides, you don’t have to worry about the customs clearance issues. And the freight charge is about 17-25USD/kg. After arriving at the destination and completing customs clearance, the price of truck delivery to your home is about 180USD, and the price of large orders depend on the specific weight. About delivery time, it takes 15 days to transport to South East Asian countries, and about 45 days to countries in the Middle East or Europe. This plan is perfect for clients who are annoyed with handling shipping procedures or have no import experience.
5. CHINA RAILWAY Express Delivery Duty Paid(Directly to your designated destination)
If you are in Europe or belong to one of the countries along the Belt and Road, then you can choose this option. As for the delivery time, the official publicity is 15-25 days. Actually, all commodities need to be collected in Chengdu first. Besides, the train passes through a lots of countries, so if there’s any problems during customs clearance in every single country, all commodities will be affected. Due to the above factors, the delivery time is only about 5 days faster than Shipping DDP, and the price is about 1.5USD/kg more expensive.
6. Shipping CIF(From port to port)
This is the most common choice in international trade, and also the cheapest among those options. The price is about 150-200USD/CBM. Generally, it takes 7 days to arrive at Southeast Asia countries, countries in the Middle East and Europe take around 20-35 days and 35days respectively. It is suitable for customers with import and export experience.
