What & how we Handle
IDP provides logistics services across the food and feed chain, from raw materials or finished products arriving from outside the EU to finished products moving on to their next destination. The portfolio ranges from Dairy, Potatoes & Other Starchy Foods, Meat & Poultry, Fish & Seafood, Eggs, Vegetables, Fruit,Bananas, Grains & Cereals, Nuts & Seeds, Oils & Fats, Bread & Bakery products, Beverages, Sweets & Confectionery,…Packaging materials and Feed. All of it is handled from a single facility in the port of Antwerp
What these consignments have in common is not the commodity but the requirements attached to it: temperature regime, official controls, customs status, traceability and lead time. Handling is carried out in accordance with FASFC (FAVV), BRC, IFS Logistics and organic requirements.
If you run into any problems, we are here to help.
Our clients enter the chain at different points
Producers importing raw materials, traders moving volume, distributors using Antwerp as their European entry point, and forwarders contracting capacity they do not hold themselves.
We cover the section between arrival at the port and onward delivery in full, and connect to the arrangements already in place on either side of it.
Full scope, or a single link
Clients contract us in two ways. Some appoint us for the entire chain: we take delivery of the container, arrange the official controls and the customs formalities, store the consignment under the required regime, prepare the orders and deliver to their production or warehouse facility within the EU.
Others contract a single link; storage, transport, customs formalities or inspection; alongside arrangements they already hold, or those of their forwarder.
Not every flow starts at the port
Not all stock held here arrived by sea. Producers nearby use our facility as an extension of their own: we hold the stock, a fixed shuttle delivers it on call-off. And not everything stays, for distributors entering Europe through Antwerp we clear, hold and forward.
Key benefits
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Sixteen individual cool rooms operating between +1 and +21 °C, alongside ambient storage, across 20,000 m² divided over three units of 6,000, 7,500 and 6,500 m².
Conditioned and ambient consignments remain at one location and with one customer service officer, without an internal transfer.
For your convenience we are able to provide daily stock reports.
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Consignments entering the EU face official controls on food and feed. Which ones apply depends on the product and its origin: plant material follows the phytosanitary route, products of animal origin the veterinary one, and much of the portfolio neither.
Our facility is an approved inspection centre and controlpoint, so the FASFC inspection takes place on our own premises. Fewer movements, and no wait for a slot elsewhere.
Our own agents lodge the declarations and verify the documentation before the shipment arrives, while a discrepancy is still inexpensive to correct.
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In addition to the official controls, quality inspection to your own criteria can be organised: ripeness, temperature on arrival, packaging condition, counts, or any parameter set out in your specification. Findings are reported the same day, with photographic evidence where relevant.
This is separate from the statutory controls and is arranged at your request. It is the step that prevents a substandard consignment reaching your customer under your name.
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Approvals and certifications. FASFC (FAVV) approval, authorization and registration · BRC · IFS Logistics · organic certification · customs warehouse authorisation, type CWP · recognised weigher for bananas · approved self-checking system.
For a logistics or procurement manager these are not decoration. They are the shortest answer to whether a consignment can be left with us and still hold up in your own audit. Documentation is available on request.