Which sectors support the largest logistics and transport costs ?.
Spending activity accounts for 6.5% of the selling price of the product on the average of all economic sectors.
Transport costs and logistics of a company vary substantially depending on the activity sector to which it is dedicated. In most sectors, companies assume higher spending on transport in the activities of storage, handling and management of logistics centers.
It is included in the ‘Study of characterization of the transport and logistics sector, “the consultancy Everis has developed for organizations and CEL UNO, whose main results were recently presented in the framework of the 38 Days CEL Logistics.
For the whole of the Spanish economy, transportation and storage costs, excluding administrative expenses and inventories amounted to 6.5% of the selling price of the product, corresponding to 4% to transport and 2.5% logistics activities. However, these percentages vary according to the goods being handled.
Where more weight?
These activities involve higher for publishers and retail spending, 9.3% and 8.1% from the sale price, respectively, while for the steel industry, these costs do not reach 2% of the price product.
For the publishing industry, which includes the study of Everis book production, paper industry and printing and the manufacture and distribution of periodicals, transportation expenses amounting to 7.2% of sales, while that logistics takes 2.1%.
Regarding consumer / retail, which includes production activities, food and groceries, sundries and cleaning, as well as large shopping centers, transport costs and logistics are more balanced, with 4.2% and 3.9%, respectively, on the sale price.
Higher costs in transport
Only in the automotive sector, including both in the same vehicle manufacturing and management of parts and components, logistics costs (3%) outnumber transport (2.7%).
Thus the cost of transport is much higher in construction, 4.2% versus 1.6% in storage and handling, and in the textile sector, where transportation represents a 4.5% and logistics February 1 , 4% of the selling price.
Although less pronounced with a gap, it is also higher in the pharmaceutical industry (2.9% and 1.8% transportation logistics); in high technology (2.5% vs. 1.6%); and in the steel sector, in which both transport, with a 1.5% cost regarding the sale, and logistics, with 0.5%, have a much lower weight than in other sectors.