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A Secure, Intelligent Global Distribution Center Equipped with Advanced Logistics Processes
Dedicated Efforts Towards Providing Rational and Swift Services
The Global Distribution Center (GDC) serves as a critical facility where anticipated overseas orders are imported and stored domestically, followed by re-exportation in response to international customer orders, and its significance has been increasingly recognized amid the rising scale of cross-border e-commerce. Incheon International Airport offers various incentives to logistics companies operating Global Distribution Centers while striving to deliver the most rational and expedited services through collaboration with the relevant authorities, including the Korea Customs Service.
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Locational Competitiveness of Incheon International Airport’s Global Distribution Center
A Northeast Asian Logistics Hub Airport with Unparalleled Locational Advantages
With its flawless connectivity extending from China and Japan to Southeast Asia, Incheon International Airport boasts of exceptional locational competitiveness for the GDC and facilitates nonstop connections to 20 cities in China, 6 in Japan, and 10 in Southeast Asia as a logistics hub in Northeast Asia. A leading e-commerce company in the U.S. specializing in health supplements, iHerb utilizes the GDC at Incheon International Airport for product storage, enabling prompt deliveries to customers in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. ASML, a Dutch manufacturer of semiconductor lithography equipment, stores its produced semiconductor equipment and components at Incheon International Airport, ready for global shipment upon customer request.
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Transforming into an e-commerce Hub Through the Construction of a New Global Distribution Center (GDC).
Construction of the Global Distribution Center (GDC) at Incheon International Airport.
Currently actively in operation within the Incheon International Airport Free Trade Area are the international logistics hub of iHerb, a leading U.S. e-commerce company in health supplements, the global distribution center of Dutch semiconductor lithography equipment manufacturer ASML, and the global distribution center of prominent domestic logistics company Hanjin. In addition, the international logistics center of U.S.-based e-commerce distributor Spaces One and the global distribution center of German logistics giant DB Schenker Korea are set for design and construction. In particular, the global distribution center of DB Schenker Korea, which signed an agreement in 2020, commenced construction in November 2021, and it was completed in April 2023, with new transshipment cargoes expected to reach 17,000 tons by 2026.
