Logistics providers in Europe
Logistics providers serving growers, packers and exporters in Europe, including global operators active in the region.
Advanced Supply Chain Group is a UK third-party logistics provider offering warehousing, e-commerce fulfilment, distribution and international freight forwarding with customs clearance from UK sites in Bradford, Corby and Sheffield.
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.
Bibby Logistics (Bibby Palletised Logistics Ltd) is a North West England-based haulage and warehousing company providing palletised distribution and cool or ambient storage services from its site in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
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.
Europa Worldwide Group is a UK freight forwarding and logistics company offering road, air and sea freight, customs-bonded warehousing and distribution services from UK sites including its Dartford head office and a warehouse at Corby.
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.
Gist Limited is a UK third-party logistics provider that operates temperature-controlled warehousing and primary distribution for major UK food retailers from a network of UK sites including Barnsley, Basingstoke, Bristol and Carlisle.
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.
Malcolm Logistics (W. H. Malcolm Limited) is a Scotland-based contract logistics operator that provides warehousing, road transport and secondary distribution services from sites across Scotland and northern England, including a high-bay warehouse in Linwood and depots in Haydock, Penrith and Wakefield.
Japanese temperature-controlled logistics operator running about 60 refrigerated warehouses and offices across 12 countries, offering cold storage, transport, distribution and 3PL services.
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.
Rhenus Warehousing Solutions UK Ltd operates contract warehousing facilities in the UK, including a site at Unit 2, Discovery Way, Nuneaton, as part of the Germany-based Rhenus Group's European warehousing network.
Philippines-based logistics provider operating temperature-controlled cold storage facilities alongside warehousing, distribution, customs clearance and freight forwarding.
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.
Uniserve Limited is a UK-headquartered logistics and global trade management group based in Upminster, Essex, that operates ocean and air freight, European road freight, customs clearance, and contract warehousing and distribution services, including a 750,000 sq ft ambient and freezer storage distribution centre near Felixstowe.
Wincanton is a UK contract logistics company that provides warehousing, distribution and freight transport services from its headquarters in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and became part of GXO Logistics following GXO's 2024 acquisition of Wincanton plc.
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.
Madrid-based integral logistics operator since 1989, running company-owned warehouses in the Madrid area with capacity for over 31,500 pallets, offering order fulfillment, inventory control and reverse logistics for food and pharmaceutical clients.
Family-owned logistics operator founded in 1909 at the port of Antwerp, providing warehousing, customs handling, project cargo and secured freight transport for industrial and trade customers from its Antwerp headquarters.
Swiss intermodal logistics specialist headquartered in Dürrenäsch, operating tank container freight and European dry bulk distribution for liquid and chemical products by rail, road and water across an international terminal network.
Swiss road transport and contract logistics company headquartered in Wil, providing general cargo and part or full load freight, overnight express delivery, and warehousing services from a branch network across Switzerland.
Logistics and freight forwarding company headquartered in Fischamend near Vienna, operating a 12,250 square meter iLogistics Center with high-bay pallet storage, and providing air, sea and road freight together with customs clearance.
Logistics operator headquartered in Keratsini in the Piraeus area, running a food logistics center in Kalochori, Thessaloniki with a refrigerated, container and general cargo truck fleet under GPS tracking, distributing goods across northern Greece. Founded in 2008.
Madrid-headquartered logistics operator running a network of storage platforms and branch offices across the Iberian Peninsula, providing warehousing, national and international freight distribution, and customs clearance for cross-border shipments.
Road, intermodal and 3PL logistics operator headquartered in Salgareda, Veneto, offering FTL and groupage transport, warehousing, customs consulting and distribution across Italy and other European countries.
3PL warehousing and distribution operator based in Agios Ioannis Rentis in the Piraeus port area, offering general and temperature controlled storage, repackaging, freight distribution and customs clearance for corporate clients. Founded in 1984.
Inland container logistics operator moving freight between North Sea seaports and Rhine and Ruhr hinterland terminals by barge, rail and truck, with terminal facilities in Duisburg and Cologne.
Nationwide 3PL warehousing and distribution operator headquartered in Acharnes near Athens, running temperature controlled storage, pharmaceutical logistics and last mile e-commerce parcel fulfillment across more than 300 daily delivery routes in Greece. Operating since 1977.
Privately owned Irish port services and shipping group founded in Cork in 1886, providing stevedoring, terminal management, bulk warehousing, freight forwarding and customs clearance from port operations that include dedicated reception desks in Dublin, Cork and Rosslare.
Family-owned intermodal logistics operator headquartered in Zeebrugge, Belgium, running rail, road and short-sea container transport plus about 160,000 square metres of ambient and temperature-controlled warehousing, along with customs and Brexit clearance services.
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.
Family-owned contract logistics operator headquartered in Greven, Germany, running warehousing, ecommerce fulfillment, parcel shipment and customs handling for consumer goods, retail and industrial clients.
Family-run customs clearance agent and freight forwarder headquartered in Naples, handling import and export shipments through the ports of Naples and Salerno with warehousing at the Nola interporto.
Temperature-controlled logistics operator within Raben Group, running refrigerated warehousing and distribution for perishable food products from a network of Polish facilities including Szczecin and Wroclaw, with temperature-monitored transport across Poland.
Refrigerated logistics operator based in Barcelona's Mercabarna wholesale food market, running cold storage from 0C to minus 25C, customs bonded warehousing, and last-mile distribution of fruit, vegetables, seafood, dairy and meat products.
Swiss transport and logistics group headquartered in Altishofen, running deep freeze cold chain warehouses, 24 hour collection and delivery distribution, and specialised freight services for automotive, food and healthcare customers from branches across Switzerland and five other European countries.
Full-service logistics operator headquartered in Lauterach, Austria, offering warehousing, distribution, customs clearance, deep-freeze cold chain and last-mile home delivery, with dedicated branches in Vienna and in Kalsdorf bei Graz serving the Graz area.
Antwerp-headquartered logistics group founded in 1930, providing customs handling, warehousing and freight forwarding for consumer and industrial goods through its Gosselin Logistics division based at the port of Antwerp.
Family-owned transport and logistics group headquartered in Genk, Belgium, operating warehousing with temperature-controlled zones down to minus 70 degrees Celsius alongside road transport for chemicals, healthcare and industrial supply chains across 80 sites in 15 European countries.
Cologne-based port and rail freight group operating Rhine harbor terminals, rail freight transport, warehousing and general cargo handling as part of an integrated trimodal logistics network.
Turkish freight and logistics operator founded in 1942, headquartered in Bagcilar, Istanbul, offering domestic and international road, rail, air and sea freight forwarding, e-commerce and furniture warehousing, distribution, and customs clearance across an 81-province network in Turkey, with additional sales offices in the United States and Europe.
Independent Irish freight forwarding and logistics company with offices in Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Belfast, operating ocean, road and air freight services alongside a Dublin food hub warehouse offering temperature controlled frozen, chilled and ambient storage and customs clearance.
Port logistics and cold chain operator headquartered in Patras with additional offices in Piraeus and Thessaloniki, running refrigerated warehouses for perishable produce, customs clearance, shipping agency and forwarding services. Nearly 30 years in operation.
Global logistics group whose ultimate holding company is registered in Schindellegi, Switzerland, offering sea, air and road freight, customs clearance, contract warehousing, distribution and cold chain logistics through its Swiss market operations.
Portuguese logistics and freight forwarding operator, part of Grupo Sousa, running ambient, frozen and refrigerated warehousing, distribution, sea freight consolidation, customs and last mile e-commerce delivery between mainland Portugal, the Azores and Madeira.
Portuguese integrated logistics and transport group headquartered in Loures, running temperature-controlled and customs bonded warehousing, road freight and distribution across the Iberian Peninsula, with a branch office in Faro.
Family owned Irish supply chain group operating a temperature controlled warehouse in Dublin 15 with zones ranging from ambient to deep freeze storage, providing cold chain warehousing, distribution and ocean, inland, refrigerated and air freight services for pharmaceutical and food customers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Temperature-controlled food logistics operator headquartered in Versmold, Germany, running full truckload and less-than-truckload transport plus contract warehouse logistics across a European depot network.
Family-owned temperature-controlled logistics operator distributing frozen and chilled food to supermarkets, restaurants and hotels, running company-owned cold storage and cross-docking centers and a refrigerated fleet of over 100 vehicles across Spain and Portugal.
Cold chain logistics operator based in Alverca do Ribatejo near Lisbon, holding customs import and export bonded warehouse licenses and storing and distributing frozen, refrigerated and ambient food products including fish, meat, fruit and bakery goods.
Turkish contract logistics operator headquartered in Esenyurt, Istanbul, running warehousing and distribution for general cargo alongside temperature controlled cold chain storage for pharmaceuticals and perishables, plus domestic and international road, sea and air transport, with additional regional offices in the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.
Family run Irish road haulage and logistics operator headquartered in New Ross, County Wexford, running a fleet of temperature controlled trailers for fresh and frozen food alongside general warehousing, customs clearance and freight management services across Ireland, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.
Gdansk-headquartered freight forwarder within the Omida Group, handling road, sea, and air transport, refrigerated and ADR cargo, customs clearance, and warehousing and fulfillment, with a dedicated branch and logistics center in Gdynia.
Freight forwarder and 3PL operator running EU status and bonded warehouses in the Athens and Piraeus area and in Thessaloniki, offering ocean, air and road freight together with AEO accredited customs clearance, order picking, palletizing and cargo insurance. Operating since 1991.
Family owned Swiss transport and logistics group with operational headquarters in Dietikon near Zurich, running contract warehousing, national freight distribution, temperature controlled transport and customs clearance from branches across Switzerland including Zurich, Basel and Geneva.
Warsaw-based third-party logistics operator, active since 2011, running 28,200 square meters of warehouse space across three facilities, providing e-commerce order fulfillment, picking and packing, returns processing, and domestic and European freight transport.
Polish contract logistics operator, part of Raben Group, providing warehousing, cold chain distribution, customs clearance, and domestic plus international road freight, with branches across Poland including Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz, Wroclaw, Szczecin, and Bydgoszcz.
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.
Rhine port and rail freight operator running container and bulk cargo terminals in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Neuss, moving goods between barge, rail and road across the Rhineland industrial belt.
Warsaw-headquartered logistics operator offering road, air, sea, and rail freight forwarding, customs clearance, warehousing, temperature-controlled transport, and last-mile delivery through its SUUS Expert division, with a nationwide branch network across Poland.
Port and logistics operator based in Ravenna since 1967, running four dry bulk terminals with covered and open air warehousing, rail and truck intermodal distribution, and customs handling for agro food and industrial cargo.
Family owned third party logistics provider based in Glanmire, Cork, offering warehousing, distribution, pallet storage, order fulfilment and container devanning for the manufacturing, food and packaging sectors, HACCP certified and approved by the Department of Agriculture to store food and feed products.
Container shipping line and door to door freight operator headquartered in La Spezia, running its own vessels and container fleet on Mediterranean routes plus project cargo and special transport services.
Vienna-headquartered temperature-controlled logistics provider running four distribution centers and cold storage warehouses across Austria, supplying frozen, chilled and dry food to retail and food service customers under an unbroken cold chain.
Family-owned international freight forwarder headquartered in Barcelona since 1979, handling road, sea and air freight and customs clearance through a network of Spanish and Portuguese offices, certified as an Authorized Economic Operator.
Szczecin-based logistics operator running a class A warehouse complex at Dunikowo with a temperature-controlled 2 to 8 degree zone, an on-site customs agency for import and export clearance, and road, sea, and air freight forwarding.
Family-founded logistics operator headquartered in Beveren near the port of Antwerp, running multimodal transport, container depots, port terminals and warehousing at facilities in Antwerp and Brussels.
Portuguese multi-temperature logistics operator based in Torres Novas, trading as Logifrio after acquiring its Spanish namesake, storing, handling and distributing frozen, refrigerated and ambient food products across more than 30 platforms in Portugal and Spain.
National and international road transport and logistics operator with legal seat in Rome and an administrative office in Carpiano near Milan, providing overland and overseas freight forwarding services.
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Common questions
How do I choose a reliable logistics and 3PL provider in Europe?
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 Europe. 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 Europe?
Verify their licensing and customs credentials directly rather than taking a website claim at face value, and confirm their actual operating radius within Europe 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 Europe handle both storage and transport?
Some do, but scope varies considerably, and it is common in Europe 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 Europe is actually reliable?
Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through Europe 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 Europe or an international one with a presence there?
It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in Europe 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 Europe, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.
What should I ask a provider in Europe 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 Europe, 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 Europe
Europe's food and agricultural trade operates within one of the most harmonised regulatory environments anywhere, and that harmonisation is the single most important fact shaping how sourcing across the continent actually works. Common food safety, labelling, and phytosanitary standards across the European Union mean that goods move between most member states with a degree of regulatory continuity that is genuinely unusual by international standards, letting a shipment cross several borders without the country-by-country certification burden common elsewhere. That said, the continent is not a single regulatory zone: countries outside the European Union, and even some arrangements within it, retain their own distinct requirements, and assuming full uniformity across every European market is a mistake worth guarding against specifically.
Physically, the continent is served by an extremely dense, mature transport network combining major seaports, an extensive rail freight system, and road haulage that connects production areas to distribution centres and ports with high reliability and short transit times relative to the distances involved. Cold and ambient storage capacity is well developed and widely distributed rather than concentrated in a handful of hubs, reflecting a continent with many mid-sized agricultural production regions rather than a small number of dominant export zones. This distributed structure means sourcing across multiple European countries rarely depends on funnelling everything through a single chokepoint corridor, in contrast to regions built around a small number of major gateways.
The provider landscape is correspondingly deep and competitive. Europe supports a large number of well-established freight forwarders, cold-chain specialists, and logistics groups, ranging from major pan-European operators with presence across most member states to smaller national and regional specialists with particular strength in specific commodities or corridors. Because the regulatory environment is largely shared, provider selection tends to hinge more on service quality, network reach, and commodity expertise than on which country a provider is based in, which is a genuinely different dynamic from regions where regulatory fragmentation itself narrows provider choice by market.
Someone sourcing across several European countries at once still needs to track the real edges of the harmonised system: countries outside the European Union, differences in how member states implement shared directives in practice, and variation in language and administrative convention that persists beneath common regulatory frameworks. Value-added tax and customs treatment can differ meaningfully depending on whether trade stays within the single market or crosses its external border, which affects both cost and paperwork in ways that are easy to overlook when the underlying food safety standards feel uniform. Seasonal production timing varies by latitude across the continent, from southern Mediterranean growing regions to northern ones, which can be used deliberately to extend sourcing windows for a given commodity across the year rather than treating Europe as a single harvest calendar. Because provider quality is generally high and consistent across much of the continent, the more useful sourcing question is often which provider has the deepest specific commodity or corridor expertise, rather than which country's providers are more capable in general.
Sourcing across Europe as a trade area, in short, means leaning on genuine regulatory harmonisation as an advantage while staying alert to where it actually ends, and choosing providers on the basis of specific commodity and corridor strength within a broadly reliable and evenly developed logistics environment. Even with that reliability, currency differences persist for countries outside the shared currency area, and factoring that into cost comparisons across the continent avoids a false sense of uniform pricing that the regulatory picture might otherwise suggest.
Comparing logistics providers in Europe
Fernable lists a wide range of logistics and 3PL providers in Europe, 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 Europe, 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 Europe 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 Europe. 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.