How many warehousing companies are in Saudi Arabia?
Dry, cold and specialised storage facilities.
52.5K
active registrations list warehousing & storage activities — 3.6% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
52,536 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list warehousing & storage activities as of 16 September 2026 — 3.6% of all classified registrations, the 21st-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
13,311 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +11.4% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (25,085), Jeddah (7,953), Dammam (2,930) lead. Relative to its size, Riyadh is the most concentrated: warehousing companies make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
67.4% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 52,536
- 3.6% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 13,311
- +11.4% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 67.4%
- 35,394 of 52,536
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where warehousing companies are registered
Column height: warehousing companies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh25,0851.6×
- Jeddah7,9531.4×
- Dammam2,9301.3×
- Makkah2,4911.0×
- Najran1,5741.1×
- Madinah1,2450.6×
- Khobar1,2351.1×
- Buraydah9000.7×
- Hafar Al-Batin6260.6×
- Hail5670.6×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Warehousing & storage: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- General merchandise warehouses12,222Activity code 521093
- General freight shipping and distribution9,479Activity code 521012
- Warehousing of all goods except food5,185Activity code 521011
- Furniture and timber warehouses4,368Activity code 521095
- Frozen food warehouses2,991Activity code 521091
- Medical devices and products warehouses1,904Activity code 521023
- Dry food warehouses1,883Activity code 521098
- Vehicle storage1,872Activity code 521096
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC33,66064.1%
- Sole proprietorship17,08132.5%
- JSC1,4192.7%
- SJSC1360.3%
- General partnership1040.2%
- Limited partnership750.1%
- Foreign branch390.1%
- GCC branch22<0.1%
Common questions
How many warehousing companies are there in Saudi Arabia?
52,536 active commercial registrations list warehousing & storage activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most warehousing companies?
Riyadh, with 25,085 — 47.7% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 7,953.
Is the number of warehousing companies growing?
13,311 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +11.4% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in warehousing & storage in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in warehousing & storage?
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