AN OVERVIEW OF CHEMICAL LOGISTICS IN INDIA

Abstract

Chemical logistics in India is one of the major industrial contributors in Indian economy and showing an upward growth trend for the past few years. Industrial experts forecast a significant growth in Indian chemical manufacturing and export/import operations. The objective of this study about the chemical logistics in India based on the numbers of shipping and in production. Logistics being one of the key operations in the safe transport of these products key indicators in infrastructure development is also monitored and analyzed to get an understanding of the support system. Research scope in this field is very wide and welcoming as there are currently only limited studies done. The difficulty of not having a centralized operational control tower in the governmental level exclusively for chemical logistics is found to be holding back such research because of data inadequacies.