Food ingredients
3PL warehousing and logistics services
What makes food ingredients different in the warehouse
A food ingredient is only worth what its record says it is. European food law runs on one-up, one-down traceability: for every batch that leaves, you have to be able to name where it came from and where it went. A pallet that has lost its batch link is not a cheaper pallet, it is an unsellable one. That is the constraint the warehouse has to be built around, before anything is said about rates.
Packed in formats that do not stack politely
Ingredients arrive in 25 kg paper sacks, in big bags of 500 to 1,000 kg, in drums and in IBCs, often on pallets built for the sea leg rather than for racking. Sacks slump, big bags need a stable base, and one inbound container can hold three of those formats at once. Storage gets decided per consignment, not once per customer.
Most of it arrives from outside the EU
Cocoa, coffee, nuts, dried fruit, spices and cane sugar are import commodities. Held under customs warehousing, the duty and import VAT wait until the ingredient is sold on, instead of falling due the week the container lands. On stock that sits for a season, that is working capital left in your business. Our bonded space is in Zeebrugge and Liège, and we are adding 13,000 bonded pallet positions in Zeebrugge.
Audited before your customer asks
Our Belgian warehousing is certified to the BRCGS Storage and Distribution standard at AA grade, and to ISO 9001. For an ingredient buyer that is usually the first line on the supplier approval list, and it is what lets a food manufacturer take you on without sending an auditor first.
Arrivals are seasonal, dispatches are not
Harvest-driven ingredients land in bursts and then leave in small, steady call-offs against a contract for months afterwards. The warehouse has to absorb a container-heavy inbound week and still pick single pallets daily through the quiet period. That is a racking and labour question long before it is a rate question.
Food ingredient warehousing, bonded and BRC AA
Customs warehousing in Zeebrugge and Liège holds the duty and the import VAT until the ingredient is sold on, and our own fleet takes it from the rack to the plant.
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Other commodities we handle in this sector
Intermediate and Processed Foods
Organic Food Ingredients
Feed Ingredients
Beverage Components
