Cold and ambient storage providers in East Asia
Cold and ambient storage providers serving growers, packers and exporters in East Asia, including global operators active in the region.
Owns and operates around 250 temperature-controlled warehouses worldwide, including 19 sites across Australia and New Zealand positioned near ports and major distribution centres.
South Korea-headquartered logistics company operating a roughly 10,000-pyeong Gimpo distribution center with ambient, chilled and frozen warehouse space, in addition to its registered Seoul head office.
Korea-based cold storage operator running a purpose-built multi-temperature (-55C to 10C) frozen and refrigerated logistics facility at the Busan New Port Ungdong hinterland complex, storing agricultural, livestock and marine products and processed foods.
Korea-based cold chain storage subsidiary within the Dongwon Loexcs business line, operating a large-scale low-temperature logistics facility at the Busan New Port Free Economic Zone for frozen and chilled agricultural, fishery, and processed food cargo, opened in 2024 as a joint venture between Dongwon Industries and a US investment partner.
Korea-based fulfillment and cold chain logistics subsidiary of listed carrier HanEx Express, operating a multi-temperature (ambient/chilled/frozen/controlled) automated fulfillment center in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, certified as a Grade 1 smart logistics center.
Korea-based warehousing company registered under the frozen and refrigerated warehouse business classification, operating a cold storage facility in Incheon for imported and domestic agricultural and marine products.
South Korea-headquartered third-party logistics provider operating directly-run distribution centers in the Gyeonggi cold-chain corridor (Hwaseong, Yongin, Pyeongtaek), handling food and agricultural/livestock product storage alongside general and semiconductor-equipment logistics.
Japanese logistics group offering warehouse storage and distribution including a cold chain logistics service alongside general ambient warehousing. It operates in Japan and internationally, including bases in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
South Korea-based cold chain operator running an LNG cold-energy, multi-temperature logistics center in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, including an ultra-low-temperature (-80C) chamber alongside frozen, chilled and ambient storage for food and other temperature-sensitive cargo.
Operates one of the world's largest temperature-controlled warehouse networks, with more than 480 facilities across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific offering frozen, refrigerated and multi-zone storage plus blast freezing.
Mitsui-Soko Holdings is a Tokyo-headquartered logistics group holding company founded in 1909 whose subsidiaries operate domestic and international warehousing, port transport, air cargo forwarding and ground freight transport. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Japan's leading refrigerated warehousing operator, running about 150 temperature-controlled logistics bases in Japan with additional operations in Europe, China and ASEAN countries.
South Korea-headquartered logistics company, founded in 1986, operating a dedicated bonded chilled-storage center in Gimpo alongside its Yongin headquarters, holding import-food storage business registration and bonded-warehouse licensing.
Singapore-based gateway services and food solutions company whose SATS Coolport at Changi Airport is Asia's first on-airport perishables handling centre, with temperature zones ranging from -28°C to 18°C.
Sumitomo Warehouse is an Osaka-headquartered warehousing and logistics major founded in 1899 (Sumitomo Group), operating temperature-controlled and refrigerated warehouses, port transport and international integrated logistics. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market.
Hong Kong cold storage operator offering chilled storage at 0C to 4C and frozen storage at -18C and -25C for frozen meat, ice cream, cosmetics and industrial products. It is based at ATL Logistics Centre, Kwai Chung and is part of Uni-China Group.
Johor Bahru headquartered logistics group operating warehousing across Malaysia and Southeast Asia, including more than 300,000 sq ft of cold room capacity across frozen, chilled and ambient temperature ranges. Cold rooms use mobile racking and are run to FIFO and HACCP ISO 22000 standards.
Yamatane is a Tokyo-headquartered logistics and food distribution company founded in 1924, operating warehousing, cargo handling, port transport and customs clearance services, including cold and frozen storage at its Kawasaki FAZ logistics center. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market.
Japanese refrigerated warehousing operator handling frozen and chilled storage and distribution of seafood, meat and agricultural products, with import and export handling. It is headquartered in Yokohama and runs a nationwide network of refrigerated warehouses.
Cold chain storage operator based at Hutchison Logistics Centre in Kwai Chung, providing frozen and chilled warehousing services for food importers and distributors in Hong Kong.
Operates a national network of temperature-controlled cold storage parks for lease, including large facilities in Beijing (86,000-97,000 sqm), Zhengzhou (155,800 sqm), Nanjing, Chengdu and Wuhan, serving food, pharmaceutical and e-commerce clients since founding in 2014.
Logistics center operator near Busan New Port in Jinhae-gu, Changwon, providing warehousing and cargo handling services for import and export freight including temperature controlled goods.
Qingdao-headquartered, Shanghai Stock Exchange-listed logistics company (SSE: 603967) providing international freight forwarding, ocean shipping, bulk commodity logistics, container yard and cold chain storage services, with branch network covering Qingdao, Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningbo and Dalian among other port cities.
Cold chain logistics and warehousing operator based in Dalian Dayaowan Bonded Port Area, one of over a hundred domestic and international logistics firms established in the port's dedicated cold-chain logistics park, which combines a bonded port zone, specialized reefer vessel berths, container terminals and cold storage clusters.
Contract logistics operator running a large temperature controlled warehouse at its Fanling Logistics Centre alongside other Hong Kong sites, offering frozen and chilled storage plus general warehousing and distribution for food and other cargo.
Taiwan's largest listed cold storage operator (TPEx stock code 8905), founded in 1990, providing import handling, warehousing, transport, processing and distribution through a Kaohsiung Renwu facility offering roughly 7,200 frozen and 70 chilled pallet positions plus its Taichung headquarters and northern Taiwan sites.
Temperature-controlled freight forwarder and cold storage operator at Qingdao's Qianwan Port, established 2004 as the China arm of Icelandic shipping group Eimskip. Operates a 50,000-ton port cold store at Qianwan Port handling frozen seafood and other temperature-controlled imports, alongside NVOCC and customs clearance services.
Osaka cold storage group operating seven sites across Hokko, Nanko, Sakishima, Osaka Port, Kita-Osaka and Wakayama, providing import handling, customs clearance, storage and repacking of frozen vegetables, fruit and seafood.
Ultra-low temperature cold storage and logistics center at Kaohsiung Harbor Pier 33, operated by the Jong Shyn Shipbuilding Group, with six freezer chambers running at minus 30 and minus 60 degrees Celsius across a 4-story, 4,800-ping steel-framed facility serving fisheries and frozen cargo since 2016.
Busan based shipping and logistics group founded in 1997 operating a frozen and chilled warehouse with 14 refrigerated chambers and dedicated quick freezing rooms for seafood and food cargo, with temperature ranges from minus 45 to plus 5 degrees Celsius.
Port-affiliated cold storage operator established September 2017, running China's largest single-building cold store complex at Guangzhou Port's Nansha terminal. Operational since May 2022 with three warehouses totaling 227,000 tons capacity and a 162-reefer-container inspection platform; designated by China Customs as an approved supervision site for imported frozen meat, fruit and plant seedlings.
Zhengzhou-headquartered digital cold-chain logistics operator running a nationwide network of regional cold storage centres totalling roughly 250,000 sqm, with over 1,800 trunk and branch routes, serving restaurant chains and frozen-food manufacturers; moved into a new Zhengzhou High-Tech Zone headquarters in 2024.
Operates a 600-plus-acre seafood, poultry and frozen-food wholesale and cold-storage distribution complex in Huiji District, Zhengzhou, established in 2010 and hosting roughly 3,500 merchants; recognized by China's Ministry of Agriculture as a major regional cold-chain logistics backbone base.
Cold chain logistics division of the HL Group conglomerate, operating large scale refrigerated and frozen distribution centers at Dongtan (Hwaseong) and Gongjiam (Gwangju, Gyeonggi), offering storage, distribution and third party logistics for temperature controlled goods.
Kobe-based bonded cold storage operator running seven refrigerated warehouses in Kobe and one in Ichikawa, Chiba, combining customs brokerage, shipping agency and cold-chain warehousing for frozen food since 1948.
Cold storage and general warehousing operator in Kwai Chung operating under the Kerry Logistics Network, providing foodstuff storage, frozen and chilled cold storage, and bonded godown services for importers and distributors in Hong Kong.
Cold storage operator serving Kobe Central Wholesale Market since 1962, managing refrigerated warehousing for fresh and frozen food distribution through the market.
Osaka Port cold storage operator in continuous operation since 1950, running a seven-story reinforced-concrete refrigerated warehouse handling imported frozen and chilled food cargo at Osaka Port.
Operates the Baoxiang Wanton Cold Chain Port in Kunming's Dabanqiao subdistrict, on the site of the former Kunming coking gas plant, officially registered as an imported cold-chain food centralized regulatory warehouse (third-party cold store) under Yunnan provincial market supervision.
Kyoto-prefecture cold storage operator running a modern refrigerated and frozen distribution center in Kumiyama, Kyoto, providing storage, sorting and delivery for temperature-sensitive frozen and chilled products.
Qingdao-based integrated marine group founded in 2001 that operates pelagic fishing, refrigerated shipping and port cold-chain logistics. Runs 300,000 tons of cold storage at its Qingdao Economic and Technological Development Zone base, including 53,000 tons of ultra-low-temperature storage and 50,000 tons of bonded cold storage, plus refrigerated trucks and reefer transport ships.
Cold storage warehouse operator in Kaohsiung's Xiaogang District running a multi-temperature facility with chilled (minus 2 to 20C) and frozen (minus 25C) storage, plus produce devanning and bonded warehouse services, recently rebuilt into a NT$300 million automated cold-chain logistics center after 50 years in operation.
Operates a cold-chain logistics centre in the Information Industry Base of the Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone, officially registered as an imported cold-chain food centralized regulatory warehouse (third-party cold store) under Yunnan provincial market supervision.
Major Japanese logistics group operating temperature-controlled warehousing including the Rokko Cold Storage facility in Kobe, handling frozen, chilled and ultra-low-temperature storage for food, pharmaceutical and regenerative-medicine products.
Operates Nanjing's officially designated national backbone cold-chain logistics base, including modular refrigerated storage units (about 24 sqm / 67 cbm each) for fresh produce distribution, as confirmed by the Nanjing municipal government's 2023 backbone-base construction announcement.
Nanjing-based food group co-developing the city's national backbone cold-chain logistics base per the municipal government's 2023 announcement, and separately the parent investor behind a cold-chain logistics subsidiary operating in Hebei province.
Osaka cold storage operator providing refrigerated and frozen warehousing services for the wholesale food distribution trade in Osaka.
Shanghai-headquartered national cold storage operator under GLP's logistics platform, running 14 operational cold warehouses across China including the port cities of Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Dalian, totaling over 160,000 square meters. Holds China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) vice-chairman-unit status in its cold chain committee, national five-star cold-chain enterprise rating, and customs AEO advanced certification.
Island-wide cold chain logistics operator running automated (AS/RS) frozen and chilled distribution centers across Taiwan, including facilities in Kaohsiung's Renwu and Xiaogang districts, offering fresh food collection, bonded temporary storage and nationwide temperature-controlled distribution.
Third-party logistics operator running a temperature-controlled warehouse in Yangmei District, Taoyuan, offering ambient, air-conditioned, chilled and frozen storage with lot and expiry tracking for food, health and medical products, active since 2010.
Osaka cold storage operator running multiple refrigerated plants including Sumiyoshi, Suminoe, Hannan and Daiki, providing frozen livestock products, frozen food and chilled goods storage since 1951.
Operates refrigerated warehousing and cold-chain distribution for dairy, seafood, produce and food-service clients across the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai region from its Suzhou base, running a fleet of dual- and triple-temperature refrigerated vehicles.
Cold chain logistics provider (TCCLC) headquartered in Taipei's Neihu District, operating temperature-controlled transport and storage sites in Taipei, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung, offering pre-cooling, specialized packaging and distribution for medical, biotech and food clients.
National multi-temperature logistics and cold-chain warehousing platform under China Vanke, launched 2015 with cold chain as a core business from 2017. Acquired Swire's mainland China cold-chain logistics platform in 2018, and now operates 25 cold-chain logistics parks nationwide, including port-city facilities in Shanghai (Fengxian), Guangzhou (Huangpu), Ningbo, Xiamen, Tianjin (Dongjiang) and Shenzhen (Yantian, bonded).
Operates central China's largest agricultural wholesale market in Zhengzhou, established in 2001 and designated a National Agricultural Product Circulation Backbone Wholesale Market in 2020, including dedicated frozen and chilled cold-storage sections serving over 7,000 merchants.
Operates a multi-temperature cold storage and warehousing complex on a 130-acre site in Wuhan's Xudong business district with a dedicated rail line, established in 2010, providing frozen and chilled storage plus an ambient-temperature warehouse for the food distribution trade.
Logistics operator with a licensed cold store at its Kowloon Bay cargo centre, offering cold chain transport and storage services alongside general freight handling in Hong Kong.
Multi-functional logistics operator inside the Kaohsiung Port Free Trade Zone offering individually temperature-set storage areas spanning ambient, air-conditioned (about 25C), cooling (0-7C) and freeze (minus 20C) warehousing for import and export cargo.
Operates cold-chain trading centres and distribution hubs across China, including Beijing, Wuhan and Chengdu, providing integrated cold-chain warehousing, distribution and supply-chain finance for the food sector; part of the Yuhu Group, whose China cold-chain division launched in 2020.
Third party logistics operator running several licensed cold stores across Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin, offering cold chain warehousing and distribution services for perishable food importers in Hong Kong.
Operates the Xinji Smart Cold Chain City in Huiji District, Zhengzhou, one of Henan's government-recognized major cold-chain logistics backbone bases, handling frozen and chilled food storage and distribution for the central China market.
Suzhou-based logistics provider offering end-to-end freight, warehousing and temperature-controlled cold-chain storage and transport for perishable and temperature-sensitive shipments, alongside air freight, ocean freight and inland transportation services.
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Common questions
Does storage in East Asia cover both cold and ambient goods?
Yes. Storage in East Asia covers refrigerated, frozen, ambient, and dry space, not only cold chain. Many providers operate multiple temperature zones within a single facility, and dry or ambient capacity is often the larger share of overall space, particularly for goods that do not require climate control throughout their journey.
How do I check whether a storage provider in East Asia is suitable for my goods?
Ask directly about licensing, temperature logging where relevant, hygiene and pest control practices, and how the provider documents the condition of goods while in storage. It is also worth confirming their location relative to the transport routes you actually plan to use in and out of East Asia, since that affects practical suitability as much as the facility itself.
Can storage providers in East Asia handle both import and export flows?
Many can, though the practical emphasis differs. A provider mainly set up for exporters will be geared towards consolidation and departure documentation, while one focused on imports will be geared towards rapid clearance and onward distribution. If your goods move both ways through East Asia, it is worth asking a provider directly which flow their operation is built around.
How do I check whether a provider listed for East Asia is actually reliable?
Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through East Asia recently rather than relying on a listing alone. Confirm the specific service you need, storage, freight forwarding, or customs handling, since a general logistics listing does not always mean deep capability in the one service that matters to your shipment. A provider willing to explain what happens when something goes wrong is a stronger signal than any credential.
Should I use a local provider in East Asia or an international one with a presence there?
It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in East Asia usually has deeper knowledge of ground conditions, relationships, and paperwork specific to that market, while an international provider offers a single point of contact and consistent processes if your goods also move through other countries. Many exporters combine the two: a local provider for physical handling in East Asia, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.
What should I ask a provider in East Asia before committing to work with them?
Ask what happens to your goods at each handover point, who is responsible if something is delayed or damaged, and what documentation they produce and when. Ask for a quote that breaks out individual charges rather than one bundled figure, so you can see what you are paying for at each stage. It is also worth asking directly how they have handled a shipment that ran into difficulty in East Asia, since that answer tells you more than a general pitch.
Storage across Asia-Pacific
Storage capacity across East Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region sits on a spectrum, from mature, closely documented cold chains serving established export corridors to markets where ambient and dry storage remain the default and refrigerated capacity has only recently expanded. Facilities range from large multi-temperature warehouses attached to port and airport zones to smaller, regionally focused sites built for domestic distribution rather than export. Because the region spans such varied economies, it is worth judging East Asia on its own conditions rather than assuming a standard set elsewhere in the region applies here too.
Geography shapes how storage gets used more than it does in many other parts of the world. Archipelagic and peninsular layouts mean goods often pass through several handling points before reaching a final warehouse, which puts a premium on how well a facility coordinates with onward transport. Heat and humidity make climate control relevant even for ambient and dry goods, not only chilled or frozen ones, so ventilation and moisture management are worth asking about regardless of what is being stored. Seasonal weather disruption tends to affect inland transport links more than the storage sites themselves, so proximity to a port, airport, or a resilient road corridor is a practical point of comparison between providers in East Asia.
Documentation and verification practices are not uniform across the region, so it is sensible to ask providers in East Asia directly about licensing, temperature logging, and pest and hygiene control rather than assume a shared regional benchmark. Contracts and certificates may be issued in a local language, and requesting an English-language summary alongside the originals avoids ambiguity later. Storage networks outside the largest cities can be thinner and more fragmented, so comparing more than one provider and asking each about their coverage beyond a single site is a reasonable step before agreeing to a longer arrangement.
How trade moves through East Asia
East Asia moves food and agricultural goods through some of the highest-volume, most tightly scheduled ports anywhere, and that scale shapes everything about how sourcing across the region actually works. China, Japan, and South Korea each run deep, mature logistics systems, but they are not one system: each operates its own customs administration, its own inspection and quarantine regime, and its own dominant carriers and terminal operators, even where physical distances between them are short. A great deal of trade within the region runs on scheduled, high-frequency short-sea and feeder services between major ports, which makes routing efficient once a shipment is booked but leaves little slack for delay, since vessel and berth schedules are dense and a missed window often means a genuine wait for the next one rather than an easy substitution.
Trade geography here rewards precision over flexibility. Cold and ambient storage, bonded warehousing, and container handling are concentrated in a small number of very large port and airport hubs, with inland and secondary locations connected to those hubs by well-developed but centrally scheduled rail and trucking networks. For perishable and temperature-sensitive food cargo, this generally means fast, reliable transit once goods are in the system, but it also means the system has fixed rhythms: customs clearance procedures, phytosanitary inspection protocols, and documentation formats are precise and specific to each country, and consignments that do not match the expected format exactly tend to be held rather than waved through with clarification sought after the fact.
The provider landscape splits broadly into a handful of very large, often state-linked or exchange-listed logistics and shipping groups that dominate major trade lanes, alongside a substantial layer of specialist forwarders, customs brokers, and cold-chain operators who handle the detail work those larger groups do not. This is a market where scale and specialisation coexist rather than compete: a major carrier moves the volume, while smaller specialist providers manage the temperature control, the documentation, and the last-mile handling that determine whether food cargo actually arrives in sellable condition. Technology adoption in tracking, customs filing, and warehouse management tends to be advanced and standardised, which is an asset for anyone integrating data across providers but also means providers expect counterparties to meet the same digital standard rather than fall back on manual paperwork.
Someone sourcing across China, Japan, and South Korea at once needs to treat each market's regulatory and inspection regime as genuinely separate, even when the shipping distance between them is a day or two. A commodity standard, a labelling requirement, or a food safety certification accepted in one country carries no automatic weight in another, and building in time for country-specific clearance rather than assuming a shared East Asian standard avoids the most common source of delay. Provider relationships also tend to be more formal and process-driven here than in less centralised regions, so consistency in documentation and advance scheduling matters more than personal flexibility on the provider's part. Currency and settlement practices differ meaningfully between the three main markets as well, and a provider well established in one is not necessarily positioned to handle payment or contracting norms in another without a local partner.
Sourcing across East Asia as a working trade area, then, means pairing the genuine efficiency of its infrastructure with realistic respect for how compartmentalised its regulatory systems remain, and choosing providers, or provider combinations, that can operate competently within each country's own rules rather than assuming one relationship will carry across all three.
Comparing storage providers in East Asia
Fernable lists a wide range of cold and ambient storage providers in East Asia, which means the practical task is narrowing rather than searching. Start with what the operation actually does day to day, not what it claims to offer. A facility's temperature range, humidity control, and whether ambient and cold space sit within the same site or are handled separately tell you more about fit than a general capability list. Look for specifics on how goods move in and out: dock configuration, whether pallets are handled on a first-in-first-out basis by default or only on request, and how the provider documents temperature logs and handling records. These operational details separate providers who run tight, auditable processes from those who describe themselves in the same broad terms as everyone else.
Location within East Asia matters more than it first appears. Two providers listed under the same country entry can sit hours apart, close to different ports, rail links, or production regions, and that gap changes lead times and inland transport cost more than any difference in stated capability. Weigh proximity to your actual origin or destination point alongside the storage type itself, and treat certifications and accreditations as a starting filter, not a decision on their own: check what body issued them, what they actually cover, whether that's food safety, a specific commodity, or chain-of-custody, and how recently they were renewed. A certification that has lapsed, or that covers a narrower scope than the marketing copy implies, is a common source of false confidence.
Where the field is genuinely crowded, run comparisons in parallel rather than sequentially. Put the same set of questions to several providers at once, covering minimum and maximum tenure, how they handle overflow or seasonal peaks, insurance arrangements for goods in their care, and their process when a shipment arrives outside agreed specification. Consistency in how clearly and specifically a provider answers is often more revealing than the content of any single answer. Differences in stated square footage or number of loading bays are usually cosmetic once a facility clears your minimum operational threshold; differences in how a provider actually manages temperature excursions, documentation, and communication during a problem are not. Narrow first on the handful of criteria that matter for your specific cargo, then compare the shortlist in detail rather than weighing every listed provider against every other on every dimension at once.