Daiso Opens RM1.2 Billion Distribution Hub in Selangor to Serve 27 Global Markets
The Pulau Indah facility will sort, store and repack goods for overseas shipments, with projected outbound activity of more than 4,600 containers a year.
Japanese retailer Daiso opened a RM1.2 billion global distribution center in Pulau Indah, Selangor, on Thursday, establishing a base near Port Klang to prepare shipments for 27 countries and territories. The project puts warehousing and other work on goods headed for overseas markets alongside one of Malaysia's busiest shipping gateways.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called the center Daiso's largest distribution center globally at the opening. The government put the investment at RM1.2 billion and described it as a private initiative. The facility is expected to handle more than 4,600 outbound containers a year, EdgeProp reported. That figure is a forecast for the center's outbound activity.
The opening follows a construction announcement from Daiso Industries in 2024 that described plans for a roughly 120,000-square-meter automated warehouse. Daiso had then targeted spring 2027 for operations. Thursday's ceremony marks the facility's formal opening. Actual shipment volumes will become clearer as operations increase.
PKT put the completed project's land area at 1.6 million square feet and described its bonded warehouse as covering 1.4 million square feet. The reported warehouse area and the project land area measure different parts of the site. The earlier construction announcement gave an approximate figure at the start of work.
What the Pulau Indah Center Will Handle
The center is intended to sort, store and repack merchandise in Malaysia for onward distribution. Anwar used those activities to explain what the government wants to capture from port traffic: work that takes place while goods are in Malaysia, beyond the movement of containers through a terminal. For a retailer that sells everything from storage boxes to stationery, holding and preparing stock at a regional shipping hub gives it a base from which to assemble shipments for multiple destinations.
On the same day, Daiso Malaysia and PKT Logistics signed a memorandum of understanding, Bernama reported. The facility incorporates automated storage and retrieval, and the agreement is aimed at improving logistics efficiency. The signing provides a basis for cooperation. The report gives no estimate of how much traffic the two companies will handle together or of the financial value of the agreement.
The location ties the project to a broader effort to expand capacity at Port Klang. Anwar said the port handled 15.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units in 2025. Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Thursday that the Westports expansion is expected to raise that operator's annual container handling capacity from 14 million to 28 million twenty-foot equivalent units. The port's recorded annual throughput, the operator's projected capacity and Daiso's outbound container forecast describe different measures.
The government has also identified better rail freight links as part of its plan to connect ports with inland businesses. For Daiso's new center, the immediate change is that work on shipments for overseas stores can take place in Pulau Indah. Annual container volumes, local supplier participation and jobs created will show how much activity it adds over time.
Daiso's construction announcement described a distribution network that already included regional facilities in Japan and overseas markets such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, Brazil and the United States. The Pulau Indah site holds inventory for distribution across multiple markets.