Warehousing and distribution in Singapore
- On the record
- 24
- Governing standards
- ISO 9001, TAPA FSR; HACCP where food-grade
- Sector
- Logistics & Supply Chain
Storage of goods and onward distribution to receiving points.
Work covers goods-in, put-away, order picking, packing, inventory management, and dispatch. Facilities range from ambient to bonded and licensed warehouses. Buyers select on location, storage capacity, warehouse-management systems, and throughput rates. The companies on the record holding this capability are collected on the Singapore Industry Index’s lists of Leading cold chain logistics companies in Singapore and Leading freight forwarding & logistics companies in Singapore.
Warehousing and distribution is the physical inventory layer of Singapore's supply-chain hub — the storage, order fulfilment, cross-docking and last-leg distribution that sit between the port and the customer. Demand is structural and, increasingly, automated: Singapore's third-party-logistics market was worth roughly US$5.76 billion in 2025 and is forecast to grow to about US$7.2 billion by 2031, with value-added warehousing, e-commerce fulfilment and life-sciences storage the fastest-growing segments (each around 5% CAGR). The country's land scarcity has pushed the format vertical: purpose-built multi-storey ramp-up warehouses and high-bay automated storage-and-retrieval systems (ASRS) are now the norm, and the sheds themselves are largely owned by logistics REITs (Mapletree, ESR, Frasers) and leased to the operators who run them — a distinction the record must hold, because the Index records the operators, not the landlords.
The buyer reads a warehouse operator on footprint and format (multi-storey ramp-up, floor loading, ASRS/automation), specialisation (ambient, chemicals/dangerous-goods, bonded/free-trade-zone, temperature-controlled, high-value/vault), technology (WMS, e-commerce fulfilment, robotics) and network (whether storage connects to the operator's own transport and forwarding). The field runs from the homegrown Singapore-HQ champion YCH Group — whose purpose-built Supply Chain City at Bulim Avenue headquarters its entire Asia-Pacific network, with specialised nodes like YCH ChemPark and DistriCentre — through SGX-listed homegrown operators (Cogent's ramp-up 1.Logistics Hub, GKE, Poh Tiong Choon, Vibrant/Freight Links, ST Logistics with its defence heritage, and the e-commerce-fulfilment player Ninja Van) to the foreign-HQ contract-logistics majors running Singapore's largest automated sheds — DHL Supply Chain's Advanced Regional Centre at Greenwich Drive, Kuehne+Nagel's 46,000 sqm hub, and DSV's five-storey, roughly 66,000 sqm "DSV Pearl" with Autostore automation. The through-line is a shift from plain storage to technology-led, temperature- and compliance-differentiated fulfilment.
Companies with this capability in Singapore
Listed alphabetically. Order does not indicate ranking.
Halcon Primo Logistics is a Singapore-headquartered logistics group founded in 2003, running 838,000-plus sq ft of bonded, non-bonded and automated warehousing — including an owned seven-hectare zero-GST bonded hub — plus air, ocean and cross-border road freight, project logistics and customs brokerage. Its NVOCC arm, Vega Orient Line, operates 800 containers in the Intra-Asia trade. Offices in Singapore, Malaysia and China; ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 certified, bizSAFE Star.
A Singapore-HQ project-logistics specialist with regional reach: heavy lifting and transport of oversized cargo, project-cargo storage and load-outs, skidding, positioning and crating, and transport-and-lifting engineering (rigging, sea-fastening, stability analysis), plus breakbulk freight forwarding and warehousing. Equipment includes SPMTs, mobile cranes (100-750 t), crawler cranes (250-750 t), 1,000-tonne hydraulic gantry cranes, jacking and skidding systems, barges and tugs.
A global contract-logistics and warehousing provider with a Singapore operation and a new strategic Singapore warehouse announced, part of CMA CGM.
A customs-led Singapore logistics firm with a dedicated customs-brokerage arm registered with Singapore Customs: import GST, export and transhipment permits, Certificate of Origin and Strategic (controlled) goods declarations, with staff stationed at Keppel and Changi; serves FMCG, pharma, precious metals and oil-and-gas, alongside freight forwarding, warehousing and cold storage.
A Singapore-HQ integrated logistics-hub operator whose Cogent 1.Logistics Hub combines ramp-up warehousing, container depot and automotive logistics, alongside freight forwarding, contract logistics and transport supporting project and heavy-cargo moves. Now a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping International (Singapore).
A Singapore-HQ food cold-chain 3PL/4PL (a Commonwealth Capital and Kokubu joint venture, with MOL taking a stake), described as Singapore's largest food cold-chain logistics company; its Jalan Besut facility spans over 500,000 sq ft of ambient, chilled and frozen space with up to 90,000 pallet capacity, including a 45-metre ASRS. Food only, no pharma.
Singapore's largest homegrown integrated logistics group, offering air and sea freight forwarding, LCL consolidation (its CWT Globelink arm is one of the world's largest NVOCC/LCL consolidators), container depot, warehousing, contract logistics, self-performed customs declaration, and a CWT Project Logistics entity for project cargo with an islandwide bulk and container trucking fleet including FSB-licensed hazmat operations.
The Singapore operations of DHL Group (Germany), spanning DHL Global Forwarding (air and sea forwarding and customs brokerage from a regional hub) and DHL Supply Chain (the world's leading contract-logistics provider), which runs the Advanced Regional Centre at 1 Greenwich Drive and a Life Sciences & Healthcare pharma hub near Tuas Biomedical Park with GMP/GDP-compliant ambient and 2-8 degrees C cold rooms.
A global air, sea and road forwarder and contract-logistics provider (its Solutions division), whose largest Singapore warehouse, DSV Pearl, is a five-storey facility of roughly 66,000 sqm with Autostore automation and temperature-controlled zones for retail and e-commerce, healthcare and technology, plus a site at Changi North Way; self-performs customs.
A homegrown, SGX-listed integrated logistics and infrastructure-materials group providing freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, contract logistics and transportation.
A Singapore-HQ one-stop heavy transport and machinery-moving specialist running more than 400 vehicles across four Singapore depots; heavy cargo and equipment transport, cranage and lifting, plant relocation (trolleys, rollers, jacks), warehousing and equipment rental, with a project-management arm for infrastructure, oil-and-gas and civil-engineering moves.
The world's largest sea-freight forwarder, with a large Singapore operation and a 46,000 sqm Logistics Hub (over 40% temperature-controlled, with 2-8 degrees C and 15-25 degrees C zones, vault storage and reefer bays; Green Mark Platinum / LEED Gold), delivering forwarding, contract logistics and cold-chain warehousing, and self-performing customs.
A Singapore-HQ forwarder providing container trucking, chartering, transshipment, pick-and-pack, warehousing and air and sea freight logistics, with self-performed customs.
A Singapore-HQ tech-led logistics firm offering e-commerce fulfilment and warehousing (pick-pack and order fulfilment) alongside its last-mile parcel network.
The Singapore operation of the Japanese logistics major (NX Group), providing air and sea freight forwarding, warehousing and self-performed customs.
A long-established homegrown SGX-listed 3PL operating a fleet of over 1,000 cargo vehicles (prime movers, trailers, tippers, reefers), with warehousing and distribution, chemical and bulk haulage and drumming, a Jurong Island dangerous-goods complex and a multi-storey Pandan Road warehouse; supports infrastructure and industrial heavy moves and bulk-cargo stevedoring.
An SGX-listed food-solutions group running large-scale contract manufacturing of frozen and chilled ready meals, marinated proteins and heat-and-serve products for airlines, retail chains and foodservice from Singapore facilities. Its Country Foods arm supplies private-label ready-to-eat lines to supermarkets and institutional buyers.
A homegrown Singapore 3PL with a strong defence and government-logistics heritage, plus commercial warehousing, distribution and supply-chain management.
A regional 3PL with a Singapore warehousing and distribution presence, headquartered in Johor, Malaysia.
An SGX-listed, Singapore-HQ group providing ocean and air freight, cargo consolidation and deconsolidation, transshipment, cross-dock and LCL — one of the main independent LCL consolidators in Singapore, with a network cited at 140 agents and 700-plus destinations — alongside warehousing (formerly Freight Links) and in-house documentation and customs.
A homegrown Singapore-HQ integrated group with international air and sea freight forwarding, warehousing (including dangerous-goods and temperature-controlled cold storage), trucking, distribution and contract logistics across a multi-country network, with self-performed customs.
Singapore's flagship homegrown supply-chain champion, running its entire Asia-Pacific network from the purpose-built Supply Chain City at Bulim Avenue, with specialised Singapore nodes (YCH ChemPark for chemicals, YCH DistriCentre), multi-temperature cold-chain warehousing and a control-tower 3PL/4PL model on proprietary WMS technology. Serves electronics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and FMCG, and provides international freight forwarding across the region.
A forwarding, warehousing and contract-logistics provider with a Singapore operation, part of Japan's NYK group.
A Singapore-headquartered healthcare-distribution group and the region's dominant pharma cold-chain distributor, running GDP-compliant temperature-controlled (2-8 degrees C and frozen) storage and delivery for medicines and vaccines, with capacity expanded ahead of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, plus warehousing and healthcare contract-logistics services across the region.
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