Dockyard Warehouses
These warehouses are located within the premises of shipping docks or in close proximity of coastal cities with ports. These warehouses specialize in storing and maintaining goods till they are loaded or unloaded from ships. Alternately, shipping companies have tie-ups with these warehouses to store goods brought in by them. Such warehouses store goods for a fixed period of time until they are picked up by rightful owners, after clearing off all warehousing dues. At times, dockyard warehouses are also termed as bonded warehouses.

Trans-loading Warehouses
These warehouses are located near rail-car tracking and container ports. They serve as a temporary location to deposit goods received through rail-cars or in containers. After a fixed number of days, these goods receive approval and are reloaded onto containers and rail-cars for carrying them to their ultimate destination town or city.

Cold Storages
These warehouses are used for storing goods that are usually perishable in nature. Some of their primary goods in stock may include food products like milk products, poultry and fish, horticultural products, fruits and vegetables, canned products etc. These warehouses are strategically located either in the center of the city or close to airports or dockyards, from where these goods are transferred to new locations. These warehouses do business because of their excellent refrigeration facilities and state-of-the-art technology to track goods as per their expiry dates. Due to perishable nature of these goods, there is a high level of inventory movement in cold storages.

Distribution Warehouses
Distribution warehouses or public warehouses receive large quantities of goods from different manufacturers. The same are maintained in the warehouse till the manufacturer or middleman informs the warehouse manager regarding transferring of these goods to new buyers. It is the warehouse’s responsibility to handover the shipment to the new buyer, or load the goods for transportation to their intended destination. In such type of warehouses, the goods are just tentatively paced in warehouses and transferred to the buyers without any change in their material form or packaging.

Consolidated Warehouses
These warehouses receive goods in varied quantities from different manufacturers and suppliers. The crates and packing used for these goods are opened up by warehouse keepers. A detailed list of inventory is prepared and recorded. These goods are now converted into smaller shipments for delivery to the new buyers. Consolidated warehouses are very popular with manufacturers who take online orders or drop shipping orders for their goods.