The warehousing concept takes us way back to the creation of granaries to store food,
which was stored for drought and famine and this food was available for purchase in the
conditions of emergency, famine, drought etc. As the European explorers began to
discover new shipping trade routes all over the world, the importance of warehouses
grew for the storage of products and commodities which were brought from far way
places. The ports were the main locations of the warehouses, since majority of the trade
between the countries was carried by ships.