Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) is a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust sponsored by Mapletree Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. Listed on the Singapore Exchange in 2010, MIT focuses on owning, managing, and investing in a diversified portfolio of industrial and data centre properties across Singapore, North America, and Japan. Its portfolio comprises business parks, flatted factories, high-tech buildings, stack-up and ramp-up facilities, light industrial buildings, and hyperscale data centres, providing stable rental income from a broad base of quality tenants. Through active asset management, strategic acquisitions, and portfolio rejuvenation initiatives, MIT aims to deliver sustainable distributions and long-term value creation for unitholders while capitalising on structural growth trends such as digitalisation, cloud computing, and the increasing demand for data centre infrastructure. I recently attended the 2026 Mapletree Industrial Trust AGM and came away with several valuable insights from management. Here are seven key things I learned.

1. Gross revenue for FY25/26 declined 5.5% year-on-year to S$673.0 million,

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