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Metal products and Transport and logistics

Metal products buys from Transport and logistics; metal products depends on transport and logistics.

Metal products (industry) and Transport and logistics (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹12.9 per ₹100 · Metal products buys from Transport and logistics

Metal products buys goods or services from Transport and logistics; counted through every round of supply, ₹12.9 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹12.9 of every ₹100 of Metal products output, all rounds
  • ₹4.1 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Transport and logistics → Metal products

3 of the enterprise types in Metal products depend on transport and logistics.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Integrated steel mills and electric-arc mini-mills: bulk rail and sea freight (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Steel and aluminium service centres: local delivery (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Industrial distributors and hardware dealers: parcel and truck delivery (criticality 1 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.