Types of Warehouses

Private Warehouses

• The warehouses which are owned and managed by the manufacturers or traders to store, exclusively, their own stock of goods are known as private warehouses. 

Public Warehouses

• The warehouses which are run to store goods of the general public are known as public warehouses. Anyone can store his goods in these warehouses on payment of rent.

Government Warehouses

• These warehouses are owned, managed and controlled by central or state governments or public corporations or local authorities. Both government and private enterprises may use these warehouses to store their goods. 

Bonded Warehouses

• These warehouses are owned, managed and controlled by government as well as private agencies. Private bonded warehouses have to obtain license from the government. Bonded warehouses are used to store imported goods for which import duty is yet to be paid. In case of imported goods, the importers are not allowed to take away the goods from the ports till such duty is paid. These warehouses are generally owned by dock authorities and found near the ports.

Co-operative Warehouses

• These warehouses are owned, managed and controlled by co-operative societies. They provide warehousing facilities at the most economical rates to the members of their society.

Fulfilment / Consolidation Warehouses

• Warehouses where products are generally received in large quantities and shipped out in a large number of smaller mixed shipments.

Warehouses providing value added Services

Warehouses providing a wide range of value added services. 

This requires the warehouse to apply labour and, in some cases, special equipment to the customer’s products, such as repackaging, further processing, or labelling.