A warehouse is a building for storing goods.[2][3] Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of cities, towns, or villages.
Warehouses usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets and then loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing, and production.
In India and Hong Kong, a warehouse may be referred to as a godown.[4] There are also godowns in the Shanghai Bund.
- ^ Jon Hurdle (May 13, 2021). "Report details surge in warehouse construction…". NJ Spotlight News. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
In South Jersey, the area has become the "epicenter" of warehouse construction in the greater Philadelphia region..'Activity in the Southern New Jersey industrial market continues to amaze,' the report said.
- ^ Harris, Cyril M. (2006). "Warehouse". Dictionary of Architecture & Construction (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill. p. 1056. ISBN 978-0071452373.
warehouse: A building designed for the storage of various goods.
- ^ Davies, Nikolas; Jokiniemi, Erkki (2008). "warehouse". Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction. Elsevier. p. 410. ISBN 978-0-7506-8502-3.
warehouse: a large building for storing goods and products prior to distribution; a storehouse.
- ^ "godown - Definition of godown in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. "Late 16th century from Portuguese gudão, from Tamil kiṭaṅku, Malayalam kiṭaṅṅu, or Kannada gadaṅgu 'store, warehouse'."