IN Brief:
- MOVIN has opened a new facility in Surat as part of its wider Indian network expansion.
- The facility will support businesses across western India, including more than 40,000 MSMEs in the region.
- Further facilities are planned in Delhi NCR, Maharashtra, and Punjab as the company strengthens its hub-and-spoke model.
MOVIN, the logistics brand created through the UPS and InterGlobe Enterprises joint venture, has expanded its Indian B2B logistics network with a new facility in Surat.
The site strengthens MOVIN’s presence across western India and adds capacity in a major industrial and commercial region. The company already operates across key markets including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, and Bhubaneswar.
The Surat facility will serve businesses across sectors including IT and electronic peripherals, apparel, healthcare, auto components, ecommerce, pharma, consumer durables, and FMCG. Its location gives MOVIN access to western India’s dense industrial zones and improves connectivity between production centres and major national consumption markets.
By supporting Express End-of-Day and Standard Premium services, the facility is intended to improve transit times and strengthen time-definite deliveries for companies operating against tight shipment schedules. The site is also expected to support more than 40,000 MSMEs in the region, giving smaller businesses access to more structured B2B logistics capacity.
Further expansion is planned in Delhi NCR, Maharashtra, and Punjab this year. The additional facilities are intended to close network gaps and optimise the company’s hub-and-spoke model across high-growth Indian markets. MOVIN’s operating model combines air and ground logistics systems with shipment visibility and predictable delivery windows.
The expansion follows MOVIN’s move into healthcare logistics, announced in late 2025. That vertical adds a more specialised layer to its B2B operation, with healthcare, pharma, MedTech, diagnostics, and time-sensitive medical shipments requiring stronger control over packaging, handling, traceability, and service reliability.
India’s B2B logistics market is moving through a structural change as manufacturing expansion, ecommerce distribution, industrial corridor development, and higher service expectations reshape freight demand. Time-definite logistics is becoming more important for companies that need to reduce inventory buffers without risking stockouts, missed customer commitments, or production disruption.
Surat also reflects a wider shift in India’s logistics geography. Growth is no longer concentrated only around the largest metropolitan consumption centres. Secondary and industrial cities are becoming more important as manufacturing, MSME production, export activity, and domestic distribution demand spread across broader corridors. Logistics providers that can connect those nodes with reliable air-ground networks are likely to gain an advantage over operators built mainly around metro-to-metro flows.
For healthcare and pharma logistics, network density is especially important. Time-sensitive shipments need predictable cut-off times, reliable handovers, and visibility through each leg of movement. A network that can support both industrial cargo and healthcare shipments has to balance speed with control, particularly where goods require careful packaging, secure handling, or documentation discipline.
Digital control is also moving deeper into Indian freight. Tata Motors’ move to take control of Freight Tiger showed how fleet data, transport management, and freight execution are becoming more tightly connected. MOVIN’s expansion is more network-led, but both developments point to a market becoming more structured, more visible, and more service-defined.
Scale will bring its own pressure. B2B logistics networks become more valuable when every additional hub improves delivery reliability rather than adding operational complexity. MOVIN’s planned facilities in Delhi NCR, Maharashtra, and Punjab will therefore be judged by how well they improve lane density, reduce transit variation, and support predictable service across industrial and healthcare supply chains.