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Importance of Halal Logistics Service Providers
2025-05-15
Halal industryofRequirements are not set in stone. New halal standards in Asia and the Middle East cover cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.，besidesHalal certification is now available for key supply chain partners, including suppliers, manufacturers, logistics service providers, distributors, and retailers, in addition to products and services (such as logistics, retail, hotels, and hospitals). Halal certification is shifting from a product-based approach to a supply chain-based approach. Similar to food safety, halal certification involves a continuous process from source to consumer point of purchase. This point of purchase can be a supermarket, restaurant, pharmacy, or, in the case of e-commerce, the consumer's doorstep.
As Muslim consumers become more halal-aware, halal logistics is becoming increasingly important in advanced halal markets such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, providing Muslim consumers with a higher level of halal assurance and brand owners with a better way to organize their halal supply chain.
Existing halal production standards in Muslim-majority countries already require brand owners to differentiate between halal and non-halal in their sourcing and distribution. Failure to address halal issues throughout the brand owner's supply chain could result in the loss of halal certification. Therefore, addressing halal issues in logistics is crucial from a purely risk management perspective. Appointing a halal-certified logistics service provider makes commercial sense to better protect the halal integrity of the brand owner's supply chain through a design based on actual halal control points and measures in transportation and storage, audited and certified by an independent halal certification body.
Logistics service providers play a key role in the halal supply chain, offering synergistic advantages in protecting the halal integrity of goods, standardizing halal assets, sharing halal information, pooling resources, bundling halal quantities, and optimizing the halal supply chain. Halal manufacturers and retailers can leverage their expertise, global networks, and ability to integrate halal goods logistics.
Halal logistics is the transportation, storage and shipping ofHalal/air freight terminal operations require physical separation from non-halal products, and halal status must be properly identified and communicated to avoid mixing of halal and non-halal goods at any stage of the supply chain. There are dedicated halal logistics standards available for reference. For example, Malaysia launched the MS 2400 Halal Supply Chain Management System Standard for transportation, warehousing, and retail in 2010. Indonesia introduced HAS 23000-5 Halal certification requirements for the logistics industry in 2021. In 2020, the international halal supply chain management system standard, OIC/SMIIC 17:2020, was also introduced, covering transportation, warehousing, and retail, similar to Malaysia's.
Over the past decade, we have seen both local and multinational logistics service providers adopt halal certification according to local and international halal standards in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Halal-certified logistics service providers have become indispensable partners in a world-class halal supply chain. The next wave of halal logistics certification is expected to include port terminal operators, shipping lines, airport terminals, and airlines.