Keeping your Goods Safe before and after Docking
Your needs go beyond just port-to-port services. To build a successful international supply chain sometimes you have to hold goods at various stages of transportation. With our extensive warehousing and storage services you ensure that your cargo is securely stored and efficiently managed, facilitating a seamless transition through every phase of the transport cycle.
Whether this is for inventory management, cost efficiency, or quality control, at MSC our global network of cargo warehousing and storage solutions have been designed to easily integrate into your existing supply chain to help facilitate efficient cargo transportation worldwide.
Warehousing and Storage with MSC:
The Benefits
Pauses and delays (either planned or unplanned) are a natural part of any international supply chain. Managing them effectively by using warehousing and storage services is critical.
Ensuring your goods (particularly perishables like food, beverages, or agriculture) are stored safely and in optimal conditions, helps you avoid damaging your cargo during transport. To optimize your supply chain even further, our warehousing and storage solutions are designed to easily be combined with our sea and inland transportation services, helping save you time and money.
Dry Storage Warehousing
Available around the world, our dry store warehousing network helps keep your supply chain fast, flexible, and efficient. As well as offering empty container depot solutions and off/on-dock container freight stations, in certain locations, we also offer repacking and relabelling options to help make your final delivery even easier.
To learn more, please contact your local MSC agency for further details and availability of this solution.
Cold Storage Warehousing
When you’re using reefer cargo to ship temperature-sensitive cargo, our cold storage facilities help to maintain the quality and integrity of your goods even when they’re static. Not only do our temperature-controlled warehouses meet the highest standards of quality and certification, but they also offer full traceability, so you can rest assured that your cargo is in safe hands.
Contact your local agent to check availability.
Value-added Storage and Warehousing Solutions
Our warehouse and storage solutions go beyond providing safety and security for your cargo. Other key services include picking, packing, unloading, labelling, palletisation, and bulk stacking, along with cargo reception, re-packaging, and assembling. This allows us to support not just transport, but also the coordination of your distribution network.
Because Shipping is more than Just Ships
Our focus on customer care and creating bespoke solutions for your business means MSC’s warehousing and storage facilities can help you enhance your supply chain and simplify your global logistics approach.
Speak to a member of our team today about how to integrate our warehousing solutions into your existing shipping strategy.
FAQs About Warehousing
Why Warehousing is Important?
Warehousing plays a vital role in the logistics network. It enables goods to be kept at their best while there are pauses in the transportation process – for example, at the port of departure or reception. There may be delays in shipping, whether planned or unplanned, and high-quality warehousing needs to be integrated into any flexible supply chain.
Using warehouses with the right features and technology is critical for perishable goods, food, beverages or agricultural produce that require specific conditions.
What are the three basic functions of a warehouse?
• Storage – a place to store goods
• Traceability – ensuring cargo being stored can be quickly located
• Movement – measures for shipping goods out of the warehouse needs to be quick and efficient
What features should be looked for in a warehouse?
Warehouses should be geographically convenient for your supply chain. There should be sufficient space for the volume of goods to be stored. The warehouse should have adequate integrated technology for the type of products in storage. There should be an effective management system, clear safety measures and good accessibility for traffic.