Capability
Warehousing and distribution in Singapore
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.
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.
Also known as: warehousing · distribution · storage and distribution · third-party warehousing · fulfilment · warehouse services
Capability specifications
- Storage types
- Ambient, bonded, Free Trade Zone, Zero-GST / Licensed Warehouse Scheme
- Racking
- Selective, drive-in, very-narrow-aisle, mezzanine, block-stacked
- Systems
- Warehouse management system (WMS), barcode and RFID scanning
- Value-added services
- Kitting, labelling, repacking, returns processing
- Certifications
- ISO 9001, TAPA FSR; HACCP where food-grade
Companies with this capability in Singapore
- Halcon Primo Logistics
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.
- YCH Group
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.
Website (opens YCH Group in a new tab) - Cogent Holdings
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).
Website (opens Cogent Holdings in a new tab) - Poh Tiong Choon Logistics (PTC)
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.
Website (opens Poh Tiong Choon Logistics (PTC) in a new tab) - GKE Corporation
A homegrown, SGX-listed integrated logistics and infrastructure-materials group providing freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, contract logistics and transportation.
Website (opens GKE Corporation in a new tab) - ST Logistics
A homegrown Singapore 3PL with a strong defence and government-logistics heritage, plus commercial warehousing, distribution and supply-chain management.
Website (opens ST Logistics in a new tab) - Vibrant Group (Freight Links Express)
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.
Website (opens Vibrant Group (Freight Links Express) in a new tab) - SATS Ltd (SATS Food Solutions / Country Foods)
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.
Website (opens SATS Ltd (SATS Food Solutions / Country Foods) in a new tab) - Commonwealth Kokubu Logistics (CKL)
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.
Website (opens Commonwealth Kokubu Logistics (CKL) in a new tab) - Zuellig Pharma
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.
Website (opens Zuellig Pharma in a new tab) - Yang Kee Logistics
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.
Website (opens Yang Kee Logistics in a new tab) - CWT
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.
Website (opens CWT in a new tab) - Ninja Van
A Singapore-HQ tech-led logistics firm offering e-commerce fulfilment and warehousing (pick-pack and order fulfilment) alongside its last-mile parcel network.
Website (opens Ninja Van in a new tab) - Bok Seng Group
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.
Website (opens Bok Seng Group in a new tab) - Kim Soon Lee (Lim) Heavy Transport
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.
Website (opens Kim Soon Lee (Lim) Heavy Transport in a new tab) - M&P International Freights
A Singapore-HQ forwarder providing container trucking, chartering, transshipment, pick-and-pack, warehousing and air and sea freight logistics, with self-performed customs.
Website (opens M&P International Freights in a new tab) - Chiang Huat Transport
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.
Website (opens Chiang Huat Transport in a new tab) - DHL (Singapore)
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.
Website (opens DHL (Singapore) in a new tab) - Kuehne+Nagel
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.
Website (opens Kuehne+Nagel in a new tab) - DSV
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.
Website (opens DSV in a new tab) - Nippon Express
The Singapore operation of the Japanese logistics major (NX Group), providing air and sea freight forwarding, warehousing and self-performed customs.
Website (opens Nippon Express in a new tab) - Yusen Logistics
A forwarding, warehousing and contract-logistics provider with a Singapore operation, part of Japan's NYK group.
Website (opens Yusen Logistics in a new tab) - CEVA Logistics
A global contract-logistics and warehousing provider with a Singapore operation and a new strategic Singapore warehouse announced, part of CMA CGM.
Website (opens CEVA Logistics in a new tab) - Tiong Nam Logistics
A regional 3PL with a Singapore warehousing and distribution presence, headquartered in Johor, Malaysia.
Website (opens Tiong Nam Logistics in a new tab)
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