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1899 |
Sumitomo Warehouse founded; established headquarters in Osaka and branch office in Kobe |
Ridge-end tile with
the Sumitomo Logo from
Tomishima Warehouse in 1900 |
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1919 |
Established Tokyo branch office |
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1921 |
Reorganized as warehouse division of Sumitomo Limited Partnership Corporation |
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1923 |
Incorporated as The Sumitomo Warehouse Co., Ltd. |
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1949 |
Established Yokohama branch office |
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1950 |
Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange |
C-13 Terminal,Port Island (Kobe) |
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1968 |
Entered the shipping container terminal business in Kobe and Tokyo, subsequently expanding container terminal business at other major ports in Japan |
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1970 |
Established Nagoya branch office |
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1972 |
Established representative office in San Francisco, USA and subsequently expanded overseas operations |
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1974 |
Launched real estate leasing business with the construction and leasing of the Kawaguchi Sumiso Building in Osaka |
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1982 |
Established Sumitomo Warehouse (Europe) GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary in Germany |
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1985 |
Established Sumitomo Warehouse (U.S.A.), Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary
Acquired airfreight agent license from the International Air Transport Association |
Tokyo Sumitomo Twin Building |
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1988 |
Constructed and leased the Tokyo Sumitomo Twin Building highrise office buildings
Established Sumitomo Warehouse (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary |
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1992 |
Launched international airfreight consolidation after licensed by the Government of Japan |
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1993 |
Established Sumitomo Warehouse (Hong Kong) Ltd. and Sumitomo Warehouse (Shanghai) Ltd., both wholly-owned subsidiaries |
Heiwajima Trunk Room |
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1996 |
Constructed a seismic isolation trunk room warehouse in Heiwajima,Tokyo |
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1998 |
Built a warehouse with cold storage function in Kobe to start handling temperature-sensitive cargo |
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1999 |
Acquired ISO 9002 certification for airfreight operations, then ISO 9001 in 2002 |
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2000 |
Opened a contemporary art gallery, Contemporary Art Space Osaka (CASO) |
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2001 |
Constructed and leased a commercial building, T-PLATZ, in Yokohama |
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2003 |
Established Shanghai Sumiso International Logistics Co., Ltd., in Shanghai, China
Established Sumiso International Logistics (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, China |
Sumitomo Warehouse
(Shanghai) Ltd. |
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2004 |
Established Vantec Sumiso Logistics(Wuhan) Co., Ltd. in Wuhan, China |
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2005 |
Established Sumiso International Logistics(Guangzhou)Co.,Ltd. in Guangzhou,China |
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2006 |
Acquired ISTAR Corporation to be included in Sumitomo Warehouse Group
Acquired ENSHU TRUCK CO.,LTD. to be included in Sumitomo Warehouse Group
Established Sumitomo Warehouse (China) Ltd. in Shanghai, China |
Sumitomo Warehouse
(China) Ltd. |
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2007 |
Established Rabigh Petrochemical Logistics LLC
in Damman, Saudi Arabia |
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