Warehousing

Our warehousing services are designed to ensure your goods' safe and efficient storage, with every step tailored to meet your specific needs. ID Partners' temperature-controlled warehouses in Merksem are equipped to handle a wide range of perishable goods, including fruits, vegetables, and other refrigerated products. Our facility spans 22,000 m², featuring a combination of spacious ambient storage and 16 individual temperature-controlled cool rooms.

We prioritize quality and safety, maintaining optimal storage conditions to preserve the freshness and integrity of your cargo. Our facilities are equipped with advanced monitoring systems, ensuring that your goods are always stored under precise temperature and humidity conditions.

ID Partners also offers flexible solutions, including short-term and long-term storage and value-added services like palletization, repacking, and quality checks. With seamless integration into our transport and forwarding services, our warehousing solutions help you reduce logistical complexity, save time, and optimize your supply chain operations.

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Unloading

We receive refrigerated cargo from the ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Vlissingen. Our cold storage facilities are certified as class U customs warehouses, enabling us to store goods for distribution under customs supervision. 

With multiple loading docks in our refrigerated warehouses, ID Partners ensures the careful and efficient unloading and loading of containers containing reefer cargo.

Arrival inspection

Upon arrival, we conduct a comprehensive inspection of the goods and their packaging, including a temperature check. Each item is barcoded, and we scan and log all pallets of products such as avocados, mangos and nuts. When the goods are ready to leave our facility, they are scanned again for verification.

Our Warehouse Management System, ensures that our inventory is always current, allowing us to seamlessly track your refrigerated cargo at any time.

Sorting out

At ID Partners, the FASFC carries out phytosanitary inspections on your products. If these inspections determine that any goods are no longer fit for human consumption, we can manage the sorting process under the oversight of the relevant authorities. Should it be necessary, we will store the rejected items in our refrigerated facilities to ensure they remain in controlled conditions. After sorting, we can facilitate a re-inspection by the authorities. If needed, we can also arrange for the proper disposal of rejected goods in collaboration with customs officials.

Storage

Cold storage

ID Partners runs 14 separate cold rooms, offering temperatures from 0.5 °C to 24°C. All the rooms are ventilated and monitored 24 hours a day. 

Mobile storage racks allow us to remove each pallet individually from the cold storage unit without replacing other pallets. This guarantees the quality of the products, minimizes the risk of damage, and prevents the pallets from being moved unnecessarily.

We accept all kinds of fresh fruits, such as tropicals, citrus, hard fruit, berries, and stone fruit, as well as green bananas and dried fruit. Cold storage is also available for sweets, chocolates, and nuts.

Dry storage

About 12,000 square meters of dry storage can be used for food products that don’t need temperature control but must be stored following the rules and conditions related to food storage. A barcode-guided computer program ensures that the right pallets are shipped to the right client at the right time. This program was especially developed to control food products with supplementary conditions on sizes and packing styles.

For more than twenty years, we have been storing nuts and dried fruits, rice and pasta products, all kinds of ingredients used in the food industry, and many different kinds of sweets.

Key benefits of warehousing

Warehousing is essential for efficient logistics, offering safe storage, inventory management, and streamlined distribution. It preserves product quality, reduces costs, and enhances supply chain flexibility, helping businesses meet customer demands and scale operations effectively.

  • Warehouses with the appropriate certifications and control systems ensure that all shipments meet regulatory and food safety standards, in a temperature controlled environment which is critical in the food industry.

  • We ensure that products arrive fresh, undamaged and on time for food, customs or quality inspection. This enhances the client’s reputation and strengthens relationships with their own customers.