At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were trading with India established warehouses in Port-Louis.

In the 1860s Borah merchants from Bombay were invited to Male' to establish warehouses and shops, but it wasn't long before they acquired an almost exclusive monopoly on foreign trade.

In other ports, they tried to establish permanent warehouses or sell their goods in open-air markets.

The Galveston businessmen Samuel May Williams and Thomas F. McKinney established warehouses and organized shipping at the port.

The bank established warehouses for its commodities lending operations, the first to do so in China.

Common instructions included helping establish staging posts and warehouses, serving as laborers in a new colony, or garrisoning a fledgling fort.

Later, from 1946 to 1959, he established offices and warehouses for the trading of fruit on behalf of the South American Fruit Company.

After he was defeated in the election of 1836, he moved to Whitby, Ontario, where he established a general store and warehouses at the harbour on Windsor Bay.

As a result of the embassy, the French obtained a large ground in Rangoon where they were able to establish warehouses.

The emperor Justinian I fortified Gallipoli and established important military warehouses for corn and wine there, of which some Byzantine ruins can still be seen.