Warehousing involves the process of storing goods, and materials for a prolonged period of time. They help manufacturers and business owners inspect, verify and deliver goods from a company to the consumer. Business involved in warehousing goods help clients adapt to different types of warehousing options such as public warehousing, private warehousing, overseas warehousing, railway warehousing, military warehousing and bonded warehousing. Some popular warehouses are government warehouse, co-operative warehouse, automated warehouse, climate controlled warehouse and distribution centers.

Warehousing companies provide different types of warehousing services such as automated storage, automated retrieval system, document automation, inventory management and voice directed warehousing. They also provide security services such as 24 hour security, CCTV surveillance, general maintenance and access control systems. Some popular warehousing operations include pallet racking, shelving, mobile shelving, multi-tier racking and mezzanine flooring. Pallet racking is the most important logistic operation which involves packing and storing goods according to the weight, stability and space. Some types of pallet racking operations include carton flow racking, cantilever racking, coil racking, double deep racking and drive in racking. Shelving is a warehousing operation which helps you stack goods in shelves instead of mobile pallets. This operation is best suited for handling fragile goods. There are two kinds of shelving operations which are: short span shelving and long span shelving. Short span shelving is best suited for smaller stock and long span shelving is best suited for larger goods which occupy more space. Some popular locations to find warehouses in the UAE are Sheikh Zayed road, Hamdan Street, Jebel Ali, Jumeriah, Deira, Umm Ramool, Latifa Bint Hamdan Street, Al Quoz, Musaffah, Electra Street, Ras Al Khor, Airport road Abu Dhabi, SAIF zone, Rolla and Industrial area 12 Sharjah.