Logistics providers in Africa
Logistics providers serving growers, packers and exporters in Africa, including global operators active in the region.
Abu Dhabi-headquartered logistics and investment group whose businesses include Agility Logistics Parks (Grade-A warehousing), Shipa freight forwarding, delivery and e-commerce fulfilment, and customs digitalization across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Marseille-headquartered logistics provider (part of CMA CGM, having absorbed Bolloré Logistics under one brand) operating in around 170 countries with contract logistics, air/ocean/ground freight, customs and reefer/perishables cold chain services.
CJ Logistics is a Seoul-headquartered integrated logistics provider offering warehousing, transportation, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, parcel delivery and IoT-enabled cold chain solutions for frozen, chilled and temperature-controlled goods.
DHL Supply Chain, part of Germany-headquartered DHL Group, is the world's leading contract logistics provider offering warehousing, transport, distribution and temperature-controlled cold chain solutions for perishables and life sciences.
Danish-headquartered global transport and logistics group operating in over 90 countries with air, sea, road and rail freight, contract logistics and temperature-controlled cold chain services for perishables and healthcare.
Levallois (France)-headquartered full-service logistics company operating in around 166 countries with freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution/express and temperature-controlled cold chain capabilities.
GXO Logistics is a publicly traded (NYSE: GXO) contract logistics company that operates temperature-controlled and ambient warehousing and distribution services, including for food and beverage manufacturers, with its global headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut.
ID Logistics US is the United States operating entity of ID Logistics, a French-headquartered global contract logistics group; it was formed from ID Logistics' 2022 acquisition of Kane Logistics and provides warehousing, omnichannel distribution, and multi-temperature site operations from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
KLN Logistics Group (formerly Kerry Logistics Network) is a Hong Kong-headquartered logistics provider offering air, ocean and land freight, integrated logistics, warehousing, customs brokerage, e-commerce fulfilment and cold chain solutions across Asia and beyond.
Nippon Express (NX Group) is a Japan-headquartered global logistics provider offering air, ocean and ground freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, customs support and supply chain solutions across roughly 57 countries.
Melbourne-headquartered logistics provider offering integrated supply chain, warehousing (including ambient, cold chain and frozen storage), transport and customs services across a network spanning around 150 countries.
Yusen Logistics is a Japan-headquartered global freight forwarding and contract logistics provider offering ocean and air freight, warehousing, distribution, customs brokerage and temperature-controlled cold chain logistics for perishable goods.
Freight forwarding and third-party logistics operator with a Kampala office at Arc House, Kanjokya Street, offering customs brokerage, warehousing, containerized cargo and inland transport connecting Uganda with Kenya, Rwanda, DRC and South Sudan.
Multimodal port and logistics operator active in Senegal with 729 employees across three sites (Dakar, Diamniadio, Kaolack), running port terminal operations, warehousing, customs brokerage and inland distribution for import and export cargo, part of the pan-African AGL network (formerly Bollore Transport and Logistics).
A road freight transport and logistics subsidiary of the Ifri Group founded in 2008, operating over 950 vehicles including tankers, container carriers and refrigerated trucks, providing warehousing, handling and vehicle leasing services across Algeria for more than 40 industrial partners.
A regional transport and removals group operating warehousing, storage and commercial distribution services from depots in Harare, Bulawayo and Gweru, serving inter-city freight distribution across Zimbabwe.
Major multimodal logistics operator present in Cote d'Ivoire for over fifty years, operating the Abidjan port container terminal and the Sitarail railway, with offices in Abidjan, San Pedro, Bouake, Ferkessedougou and Ouangolodougou, offering warehousing, cold storage, cocoa export stuffing stations and customs services.
The Kenyan arm of the global Bollore Transport and Logistics network, providing freight forwarding, customs clearance and value-added warehousing and local transportation from strategic locations in Nairobi and Mombasa connecting air, sea and land transport corridors across East Africa.
International transport and logistics operator present in Uganda since 1968, operating warehousing and customs clearance services from Kampala with additional sites at Entebbe and the border posts of Malaba, Busia, Ntoroko, Mpondwe, Katuna and Mutukula, and named top customs clearing agent by the Uganda Revenue Authority in 2021.
Dar es Salaam based logistics operator providing warehousing and distribution services including a customs bonded warehouse that lets importers store goods before paying duties, alongside freight forwarding and customs clearance across Tanzania.
Beira-based logistics company offering freight forwarding, customs clearance, vessel and cargo agency, specialized transportation, project logistics, warehousing and storage, cargo handling and diplomatic and NGO cargo services out of its office near the Sofala customs court.
Tangier-based refrigerated road transport company moving fresh fruit and vegetables from Morocco to Europe, operating a fleet of Scania tractors and refrigerated semi-trailers plus a partner carrier network, and holding IFS Logistics certification for cold-chain quality and safety.
Nigerian customs clearance and freight forwarding company operating at Lagos, Apapa, Tin Can Island, Port Harcourt, Onne, Calabar and Warri ports, offering temperature-controlled warehousing near the ports for frozen and chilled food and pharmaceutical imports, plus export clearing for agricultural cargo.
Cold storage and logistics operator running port-side and inland cold store facilities across Southern Africa, including the Epping Industria facility in Cape Town, providing PPECB-compliant temperature-controlled storage, handling and cooling for fruit exporters covering citrus, grapes, berries, stone fruit, pome fruit and avocados.
An inland container depot and logistics platform in the Masaka sector of Kigali operated by DP World under a 25 year government agreement, providing bonded warehousing of about 19,000 square meters, a 500 square meter cold storage facility, container handling of up to 50,000 TEUs a year, and in country customs clearance for import and export cargo.
Egyptian operation of global logistics group DSV, running 16 warehouses across the country plus a container freight station in the Ismailia public free zone, offering perishable logistics, sea and road freight, and in-house customs brokerage at Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Ismailia and Damietta.
Shipping and freight forwarding line operating dry and reefer container services out of Alexandria, Port Said, Damietta and Suez, with an Egypt-based reefer division specializing in fresh produce and perishable cargo handling plus customs clearance and inland trucking.
A wholly Ghanaian owned logistics company based in Tema serving public and private institutions across West Africa, providing freight forwarding, warehousing and distribution, customs clearance, haulage, bulk cargo discharge and shipping agency services from Accra, Tema and Takoradi ports.
Egyptian freight forwarder established in 1990 offering air, sea and land freight, with in-house customs brokers at Cairo Airport and Alexandria Port, a climate-controlled bonded warehouse in Cairo, and a fleet including refrigerated and flatbed vehicles for land transport.
A Nairobi-based temperature-controlled logistics company headquartered near JKIA, offering refrigerated transport with IoT temperature monitoring, cold storage warehousing, pharmaceutical and fresh produce logistics, customs clearance and door-to-door last mile cold chain delivery across East Africa.
A sister company of Wells Fargo Kenya, Fargo Courier provides countrywide parcel and freight delivery, freight forwarding and customs clearance, storage and warehousing and last mile distribution through over 100 branches and depots across Kenya and the wider East and Central Africa region.
Customs clearing and freight forwarding company established in 1969, with offices in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, providing supply chain management and customised import and export transport solutions for consignments moving through South Africa's main ports.
Italian road, intermodal and contract logistics operator with branches across Genoa, Verona, Bologna, Bari, Parma and Catania, providing warehousing, groupage distribution, customs consulting and last mile delivery services.
Lagos based logistics and storage company operating since 2013 with a 380 square meter temperature-controlled warehouse near Apapa Ports, offering cold rooms from minus 25 to positive 8 degrees Celsius, refrigerated truck rental, and air, marine and cross-border logistics for food, beverage and pharmaceutical importers.
Part of the Freight Forwarders Group, FFS operates a 14,000 square meter Grade A distribution center in Tatu City near Nairobi offering bonded and non-bonded warehousing, systems-driven inventory management, cold chain and pharmaceutical logistics, nationwide distribution and importer-of-record services.
Casablanca-based road freight carrier operating a mixed fleet including refrigerated and bi-temperature trucks for frozen and chilled goods, alongside tautliner, tanker and flatbed transport, and handling customs documentation for dangerous and temperature-sensitive cargo.
Road freight and warehousing operator based in Ait Melloul near Agadir, running refrigerated trucks for fruit, vegetable and other perishable cargo on direct routes linking Agadir, Casablanca and Tangier, alongside depot storage and order fulfillment for agricultural exporters.
Cold-storage and customs logistics group with branch operations in Agadir and at Tanger Med port, offering refrigerated warehousing, handling, sorting and Authorized Economic Operator customs clearance for fresh fruit and vegetable exporters shipping to Europe.
South African road freight operator running a fleet of tautliner and refrigerated trucks that collect fruit and vegetables from farms and transport them at controlled temperatures to Cape Town and Durban for export, alongside general freight distribution across the country.
Zambia's longest established clearing and freight forwarding company, founded in 1965, providing air, sea and surface freight forwarding, customs broking, bonded warehousing with duty deferral, and last mile distribution from facilities in Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe and Chingola.
Logistics company established in 2009 and headquartered in Addis Ababa providing international freight forwarding, customs clearance, project logistics for oversized cargo, warehousing and distribution, and door to door trucking and delivery across Ethiopia.
A Kigali based customs clearing and freight forwarding agency established in 2011, operating offices at Kanombe International Airport and Gikondo plus border posts, handling customs brokerage through Rwanda Customs and Transit, cargo handling at airport and seaport, and delivery to client premises.
Indigenous Nigerian cold chain logistics operator providing refrigerated transport, cold storage and distribution for fresh food, pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive products, serving agriculture, food processing, retail and export logistics clients nationwide.
Customs and logistics operator established in 1991 at the Port of Abidjan, managing around 500,000 tonnes of cargo annually with its own equipment, warehousing over 60,000 square meters, land transport fleet, and in-house customs clearance and port handling services.
A Nairobi-headquartered technology platform that matches cargo owners with vetted, insured truck transporters to move full truckload cargo across Kenya and 12 African countries, providing rate estimation, wallet-based payments and real-time shipment tracking for manufacturers, distributors and exporters.
Nearly 30 year old Ethiopian logistics provider and joint venture with CEVA Logistics offering customs brokerage with Authorized Economic Operator status, ocean and air freight agency services, ambient warehousing in Addis Ababa with planned cold chain facilities, and its own ground transport fleet to Djibouti, Mombasa, Berbera and Port Sudan.
A Ghanaian shipping and logistics group established in 1999, headquartered in Accra with branches in Tema and Takoradi, operating over 47,000 square meters of bonded and non-bonded warehousing plus open storage yards, alongside customs clearance, project cargo movement and cross border haulage.
Refrigerated transport division of the OneLogix Group, operating large reefer trailers at temperatures from minus 25 to plus 25 degrees Celsius to move fruit, vegetables, seafood, meat and poultry across South Africa and into neighbouring countries, with a national footprint including Cape Town and Durban.
Portuguese logistics and freight forwarding group headquartered in Maia near Porto, offering customs brokerage, temperature-controlled pharmaceutical distribution, warehousing and international air and sea freight, with a branch office in Faro and its own network across Africa and Latin America.
Global freight forwarding and customs brokerage group with offices in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Onne, Nigeria, specializing in the clearing and export of raw cashew, sesame seeds, soya beans and cocoa beans through container and bulk break bulk shipments alongside recyclable materials and agricultural commodities.
Long established Lagos based logistics group founded in 1970 offering climate-controlled warehousing, inventory management, cross-docking, customs clearance and freight forwarding services for importers and exporters, with facilities at Amuwo near Apapa port and an Ikeja office.
Port handling and transit company based in the Vridi industrial zone of Abidjan, managing customs and administrative procedures for international goods movements, cargo loading and unloading, warehouse management, and hinterland import-export operations with neighboring countries.
Dar es Salaam headquartered third party logistics provider offering warehousing, order fulfilment, customs documentation and tariff classification, plus ocean, air and road freight transport across Tanzania and East Africa, mainly serving mining and industrial clients.
A Mombasa-founded East African logistics group offering air, sea and road freight, customs clearance, container freight station operations and general, transit, bonded and cold room warehousing, with facilities in Nairobi, Mombasa and Eldoret and ISO 9001 and Authorized Economic Operator status.
State stevedoring and cargo handling company that has operated the container terminal at the Port of Rades since 2005, providing warehousing, cargo handling, and goods distribution across Tunisia's commercial ports.
An Algiers based transit and transport operator handling customs clearance of imports and exports, freight transport to all Algerian provinces, warehousing and handling of oversized and dangerous goods across Algerian ports, with over 20 years in the business.
Refrigerated transport company based in the Souss region around Agadir, Morocco's largest fruit and vegetable export area, moving produce to France, Spain, Portugal, Germany and the UK, with ISO 9001 and Authorized Economic Operator certification and over 60 staff.
Part of the Alpha Group, Southern Shipping Services provides cold chain management spanning reefer container handling at Mombasa port through to cold storage warehousing in Nairobi and last mile temperature-controlled distribution, alongside dry warehousing and freight forwarding and clearing.
Steinweg's Beira facility operates roughly 18,700 square meters of customs-bonded warehousing plus 39,000 square meters of yard space, handling minerals, agricultural products, raw material inputs and project cargo, with bagging, packing and customs clearance services.
Perishable goods logistics specialist based in Cape Town offering airfreight, customs clearance, warehousing and cold chain management for fresh produce, flowers, meat and seafood, with 24 hour temperature-monitored cargo handling operations at Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban international airports.
Cairo-based freight forwarder providing air, sea and land freight services together with customs clearance for import and export shipments, plus trucking and oil and gas logistics turnkey solutions.
A family owned Algerian logistics company established in 1995 offering customs clearance, transportation and distribution by fleet, cargo consolidation, bonded and free zone warehousing, and cargo handling, with regional offices in Algiers, Oran and Skikda serving clients such as Peugeot and Renault.
A Namibian transport and logistics company operating a local fleet that moves containerized cargo between the port and warehousing facilities, primarily serving the Erongo Region and Walvis Bay.
A Harare-based international freight forwarding company providing customs clearance, freight forwarding and warehousing services for import and export cargo moving through regional ports.
Lagos headquartered wholesale frozen food distributor supplying bulk poultry, seafood and frozen vegetables to businesses, operating its own warehousing and cold storage plus an online ordering platform for delivery across Lagos, with additional offices in Accra, London and New York.
South African owned import and export logistics specialist for wine and beverages, based in Stellenbosch, handling shipments from single bottle consignments to bulk and full container loads with international clearance and delivery agents in the UK, Europe, Africa, the USA and parts of Asia.
A Namibian logistics operator based in Walvis Bay providing customs clearing and forwarding, warehousing, intermodal transport, ship agency and airport ground handling for import, export and transit cargo across Namibia and the region.
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Common questions
How do I choose a reliable logistics and 3PL provider in Africa?
Start by confirming what the provider actually covers end to end: haulage, customs brokerage, warehousing, and last-mile delivery are often separate specialisms even within Africa. Ask for their experience with your specific goods category and the routes you need, rather than relying on a general company profile, and check how they handle communication once a shipment is booked.
What should I check before signing with a logistics and 3PL provider in Africa?
Verify their licensing and customs credentials directly rather than taking a website claim at face value, and confirm their actual operating radius within Africa since national coverage is sometimes broader on paper than in practice. Clarify storage types available, since ambient, dry, and temperature-controlled space are not interchangeable and not every provider offers all three.
Do logistics and 3PL providers in Africa handle both storage and transport?
Some do, but scope varies considerably, and it is common in Africa for warehousing and transport to be handled by separate specialists rather than one integrated operator. Ask a provider directly which legs of the move they perform themselves versus subcontract, since that affects both pricing and where responsibility sits if something is delayed.
How do I check whether a provider listed for Africa is actually reliable?
Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through Africa recently rather than relying on a listing alone. Confirm the specific service you need, storage, freight forwarding, or customs handling, since a general logistics listing does not always mean deep capability in the one service that matters to your shipment. A provider willing to explain what happens when something goes wrong is a stronger signal than any credential.
Should I use a local provider in Africa or an international one with a presence there?
It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in Africa usually has deeper knowledge of ground conditions, relationships, and paperwork specific to that market, while an international provider offers a single point of contact and consistent processes if your goods also move through other countries. Many exporters combine the two: a local provider for physical handling in Africa, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.
What should I ask a provider in Africa before committing to work with them?
Ask what happens to your goods at each handover point, who is responsible if something is delayed or damaged, and what documentation they produce and when. Ask for a quote that breaks out individual charges rather than one bundled figure, so you can see what you are paying for at each stage. It is also worth asking directly how they have handled a shipment that ran into difficulty in Africa, since that answer tells you more than a general pitch.
Sourcing logistics and 3PL across Europe, the Middle East and Africa
The EMEA region covers an unusually broad range of logistics maturity, from dense, well-regulated networks in parts of Europe to markets where formal 3PL provision is still consolidating and informal arrangements remain common. Regulatory regimes differ sharply by sub-region and sometimes by country within it, so customs documentation, permitted vehicle standards, and licensing requirements for warehousing all need checking locally rather than assumed from experience elsewhere in the region. A provider's ability to move goods smoothly across one set of borders says little about their capability on another set within the same broad region.
Multilingual operation is common in parts of Europe and the Gulf, but should not be assumed as standard everywhere, and contract and customs documentation is frequently expected in the local language regardless of what is used in commercial correspondence. Warehousing spans ambient and dry storage alongside temperature-controlled space, with the balance and quality of each varying by how developed the surrounding industrial and trade infrastructure is. In some markets, port and airport handling capacity is the binding constraint on lead times rather than road transport itself.
Political and regulatory stability varies more within this region than in most others, and providers with established local relationships tend to navigate change more smoothly than those operating at arm's length. Religious and public holiday calendars differ by country and can cluster differently across a year than a reader might expect, so building schedule buffers around local, rather than assumed, holiday periods is a sensible habit. Checking a provider's actual licensing and customs credentials directly, rather than relying on a general reputation, is worth doing before committing to a route.
How trade moves through Africa
Africa's food and agricultural trade moves across a continent where infrastructure quality and trade routing vary enormously between and even within countries, and where a great deal of cargo travels substantial overland distances before it reaches a port at all. Landlocked countries depend on transit through a coastal neighbour to reach international shipping, which means the trade geography of the interior is defined as much by corridor agreements and transit route quality with a neighbouring state as by conditions in the exporting country itself. Coastal nations with well-established ports serve not only their own exports but function as gateways for goods originating well inland, and understanding which corridor a shipment will actually use is often more important than understanding the origin country's own infrastructure in isolation.
Trade patterns follow a small number of well-worn corridors linking major agricultural production zones to coastal ports, generally along road and rail links that were built around specific export commodities and have been reinforced over time rather than replaced by a denser network. This concentration means these corridors tend to be relatively reliable once cargo is on them, but it also means capacity and scheduling around them can be tight during peak harvest periods, and a delay at a single border crossing or port can affect a wide catchment of exporters relying on that same route. Storage capacity, both ambient and cold, clusters around these established corridors and their port cities, with production areas further from them served by a longer and more variable chain of aggregation and local transport before goods reach any formal storage or export infrastructure.
The provider landscape is genuinely mixed in scale. A layer of well-resourced international and regional logistics groups operates around the continent's major ports and busiest corridors, offering standards of documentation and cold-chain handling comparable to other developed export markets, while a much larger number of smaller, locally based transporters, aggregators, and warehousing operators handle the movement of goods from farm gate to those main corridors. These smaller operators are frequently the only realistic link between a production area and the formal export chain, and their local knowledge of roads, seasons, and community relationships is genuinely difficult to substitute with a larger operator's general capability.
Someone sourcing across several African countries at once should think in terms of transit corridors and gateway ports rather than national borders alone, since the practical route a shipment takes, and the country whose port infrastructure it depends on, may differ from its country of production. Regulatory and certification requirements differ by country and are not always harmonised even where regional trade blocs exist, so building in verification of current requirements per country, rather than assuming continuity from one to the next, avoids delay. Distances between production areas and ports can be considerable, and overland transport time and reliability deserve as much attention in planning as the ocean leg that follows. A buyer working across the continent benefits from treating the provider relationship at the local, in-country level as seriously as the international freight forwarding arrangement, since it is often that local link that determines whether a shipment reaches the corridor at all.
Sourcing across Africa as a trade area means matching expectations to the specific corridor and country combination involved rather than to the continent as a single entity, and valuing the smaller, locally embedded providers who connect production to the formal export chain as much as the larger operators who move goods once they reach it.
Comparing logistics providers in Africa
Fernable lists a wide range of logistics and 3PL providers in Africa, which turns the task from finding someone into choosing well. The first useful move is to separate providers by what they actually do rather than by how they describe themselves. Two providers can both call themselves full-service and mean very different things: one might run its own fleet and warehousing, another might broker most of the physical work to subcontractors while managing the paperwork and customer relationship. Neither model is wrong, but they carry different risk and different visibility once your goods are in transit. Ask directly what is owned and operated versus subcontracted, and treat vague answers as information in themselves.
Once you know how a provider actually operates, the differences worth weighing are mostly about fit rather than scale. Look at the specific lanes, modes, and cargo types a provider handles routinely in and around Africa, since routine experience with a corridor tends to matter more than the size of a provider's overall network. Check what kind of storage sits behind their logistics offer, ambient and dry space as much as anything requiring temperature control, since a provider strong on one and thin on the other may still be the wrong fit for a mixed shipment. Look at how they handle customs and documentation locally: whether they file directly, who they work with, and how they communicate delays. Certifications and accreditations relevant to your goods are worth checking, but treat a long list of logos with some scepticism unless you can see what each one actually covers. Track record on your kind of cargo counts for more than general reputation.
What tends not to matter, despite how often it is presented as a differentiator, is marketing polish: a slicker website or a longer service list does not on its own indicate better execution. Nor does simply being the largest name in Africa guarantee the best fit for a particular shipment. To compare without drowning in options, narrow the field early using hard constraints, the specific lane, cargo type, and storage need, before comparing anything else. Shortlist a small number of providers that clear those constraints, then ask each the same handful of concrete questions: how they handle exceptions, who you would actually speak to during a delay, and what visibility you get once goods are moving. Consistent, specific answers across a short shortlist tell you more than an exhaustive survey of every provider Fernable lists for Africa. Treat the comparison as a filtering exercise, not an audit, and stop once you have two or three providers who answer the questions that matter to your shipment.