Logistics providers in Latin America
Logistics providers serving growers, packers and exporters in Latin America, 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.
Almacenadora Sur (ALSUR) is a Mexico City headquartered general bonded warehouse operator, regulated as an Organización Auxiliar del Crédito, with an office in Culiacán, Sinaloa and agricultural grain warehouses, offering storage, bonded customs deposit, distribution and refrigerated trucking nationally.
ATL Autotransportes is a Reynosa, Tamaulipas based trucking company serving the maquiladora industry with national and international cargo transport, warehouse service and door to door delivery.
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.
COCOPA is a Culiacán, Sinaloa based cold chain logistics company offering refrigerated and frozen storage, TIF certified meat handling and refrigerated transport, with authorization to export to the United States and Japan.
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.
FRIOSIN is a Culiacán, Sinaloa based cold storage operator offering refrigerated and frozen warehousing down to -20 degrees, along with palletizing, picking and cross docking for the local perishables trade.
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.
Grupo Logistics is a Tlalnepantla, Estado de México based logistics group offering customs brokerage, border distribution centers including one in Mexicali, and refrigerated freight between the United States and Mexico.
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.
JAMAMADI is a Nogales, Sonora based trucking company providing local dry van freight, yard and warehouse movements, temporary trailer storage and cross border shipping documentation for maquiladora clients.
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.
Megafrio is a Mexican cold storage company renting refrigerated and frozen warehouse space with loading, unloading and inventory control services from its facility in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
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.
Profrío Logística is a Mexican logistics company handling storage and distribution of frozen, refrigerated and temperature-controlled food products from TIF-certified facilities in Apodaca and Monterrey, Nuevo León.
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.
Total Cargo Transportes is a Tijuana, Baja California based trucking and customs brokerage company, OEA and C-TPAT certified, offering cross border freight between Tijuana and San Diego, local Baja California distribution and full customs agency services.
TRACARSIN is a Culiacán, Sinaloa based trucking company providing refrigerated and dry box freight service across Sinaloa and Baja California Sur, specializing in deliveries to distribution centers and retail stores.
TRAXION is a Mexico City headquartered, publicly traded logistics and mobility group whose Solistica and Egoba brands provide 3PL warehousing, distribution, refrigerated freight and customs cleared cross border transport across Mexico.
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.
Aguilar Aduanas is a customs brokerage with more than 70 years of operation and offices in Tampico and Altamira among other Mexican locations, handling customs clearance plus air, sea FCL and LCL, multimodal and ground transport for import and export shipments.
AGUNSA is a Chilean integrated logistics operator headquartered in Las Condes, Santiago, offering warehousing and cargo transport alongside maritime, port and air logistics solutions across sectors including aquaculture, agriculture, mining and retail, with a presence in Antofagasta and a new logistics center opened in Talcahuano in January 2026.
Registered in the Colon Free Zone company directory under the transport logistics activity classification, operating from Edificio Millenium 2000 in the Casco Viejo Zona Libre sector of Colon.
Cold storage and logistics operator in the Ezeiza industrial park near Buenos Aires, running six refrigerated warehouses totaling 26,000 square meters and 16,200 cubic meters with 3,355 pallet positions, holding ANMAT and SENASA authorizations for fruit, vegetable, citrus export and dairy cold chain handling.
Almacenadora GOLMEX operates a bonded warehouse (recinto fiscalizado) inside the Port of Veracruz with more than 20 years handling general, perishable and hazardous cargo, and has expanded its external SADER inspection point to support refrigerated container connections and cold chain continuity for perishable exports.
Refrigerated warehouse operator of the Vima Group in the Haina section of San Cristóbal, expanded to about 7,000 pallet positions and 50,000 cubic meters of chamber space cooled to minus 18 to minus 30 Celsius, with 13 loading bays.
Bonded warehousing and logistics operator at Avenida Petapa 55-38, Zona 12, Guatemala City, running 25,000 square meters of general and SAT authorized fiscal warehouse space with internal customs G3 clearance, meeting BASC standards.
Operates an integrated cold storage and distribution center in the Maipu industrial park in Mendoza, with eleven refrigeration chambers totaling 14,900 cubic meters split between refrigerated and super frozen space. Holds SENASA, INAL, USDA and SAG certifications and serves the Cuyo bioceanic corridor.
Arfrio has operated refrigerated and frozen product warehousing in Brazil for more than 70 years, running 13 units nationwide including facilities in Santos and Itajai, with 24-hour cold storage operations, order picking and SAP-based traceability for domestic and export food logistics.
Fruit export and logistics operator based in Petrolina, Pernambuco, in the Sao Francisco valley fruit corridor, a member of the ABRAFRUTAS fruit exporters association, running packing and export logistics for Tahiti lime, mango, grape, ginger and Hass avocado under IFS Food, Rainforest Alliance, HACCP and Fairtrade certifications.
Batuc Express is a Sonoran cold chain logistics operator headquartered in Hermosillo with more than 25 years in temperature controlled import and export transport, running its own Nogales border crossing point with 24/7 GPS and temperature monitored multi-temperature units for food and agroindustrial cargo.
Customs brokerage founded in 1991 and headquartered in Itajai, Santa Catarina, handling import and export clearance nationally from Brazil's second largest port complex.
Brasil Cold Storage runs refrigerated and dry warehousing, picking, cross-docking and container terminal operations in the Baixada Santista region around the Port of Santos, providing export qualification services and nationwide refrigerated transport for food cargo.
Refrigerated logistics operator founded in 1998 and headquartered in Paranagua, Parana, running an owned refrigerated fleet plus contracted carriers across Brazil's South and Southeast regions, moving up to 30,000 tons per month with about 12,000 tons of combined cold storage capacity near the port of Paranagua.
Third party logistics operator in Guatemala City running a 38,000 square meter facility with dry, fiscal and refrigerated and frozen storage, including cold rooms for 2,500 pallet positions, and over 50 years in operation.
Guayaquil warehousing and logistics operator founded in 2012 out of an in-house dairy-industry logistics operation, now managing inventory, storage and distribution continuity for exporters and producers from its facility at Km 10.5 via a Daule.
Regional freight carrier headquartered in Chapeco, Santa Catarina, operating 4 service hubs and 12 service units with more than 65 vehicles and 130 employees, covering all of Santa Catarina and Parana plus greater Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Erechim and Caxias do Sul for fractional and full truckload cargo including chemicals, machinery and equipment.
Chilexpress is a Chilean courier and parcel logistics company headquartered at Parque Industrial ENEA in Pudahuel, Santiago, providing domestic and international parcel and document delivery with nationwide last mile coverage across Chile.
Container transport and logistics group headquartered at Km 13.5 Carretera a Barcenas in Villa Nueva, operating dry and refrigerated container drayage to and from Central American ports with a fleet of 572 tractors and 1,125 chassis, holding BASC and IICL certifications.
Founded in 1996, Comfrio is one of the largest cold chain logistics operators in Brazil, operating multi-temperature distribution centers nationwide including a Triangulo Mineiro hub in Uberlandia with about 32,000 cubic meters of storage, and offering freezing, cold recovery and physical distribution services for food clients.
Refrigerated food storage operator founded in 2008, located on Carretera Sánchez Km 12.5 in Santo Domingo about 700 meters from the Port of Haina, storing frozen goods at minus 12 to minus 18 Celsius.
Private bulk cargo terminal operator at the Port of Nueva Palmira, Uruguay, situated immediately downstream of the main ANP-administered port area, handling solid bulk cargo including barley, cereals, cellulose and fertilizer under the Nueva Palmira free trade zone regime.
Ecatrans operates a logistics facility in San Joaquin de Flores, Heredia, providing fiscal and general bonded warehousing, pharmaceutical cold storage, free trade zone logistics, local transport from two to fifty three tons, and customs brokerage, in continuous operation since 1988.
Temperature-controlled logistics operator with a warehouse inside the DP World Economic Zones park at Caucedo, holding capacity for 8,000 frozen pallets plus an antechamber for value-added handling, launched with planned local investment of USD 40 million.
Registered in the Colon Free Zone company directory under the transport logistics activity classification, operating from a warehouse in the Coco Solito sector of Colon.
Third party logistics operator headquartered in Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, holding an official Armazem Geral general warehouse registration under Decree 1.102 of 1903, with more than 20 years in business providing storage, cross docking, order fulfillment and WMS managed inventory operations.
Ecuadorian third-party logistics operator with over 18 years of experience, ISO 9001:2015 and BPADT certified, running distribution centers in Quito (Llano Grande, Calderon) and Guayaquil (Juan Montalvo) for national warehousing, co-packing and distribution services.
Frigorifico de Pereira S.A. (Frigoper), founded in 1976, operates cold and dry storage chambers at minus 18 and 0 to 5 degrees Celsius, cross docking and last mile distribution serving more than 120 retail points including Carrefour, Makro, Exito and Alkosto across Colombia's Coffee Triangle region, and holds Decreto 1500 food handling and cold chain certification.
Temperature controlled 3PL warehouse on Via Transistmica Km 31 in Colon with 79,160 cubic meters and 9,760 pallet positions across a minus 30 to plus 15 Celsius range, 16 loading docks, bulk tuna offload and WMS based cold chain traceability inside a duty free logistics zone.
Frio Aereo Asociados has operated temperature controlled warehousing and airport cargo logistics at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima since 1997, handling perishable exports such as asparagus, mangoes, flowers, and berries under a customs temporary depot regime, and holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001, BASC, and OEA certifications.
Frio Alimentaria S.A.S. operates a frozen and refrigerated storage facility in the Zona Franca free trade zone of Turbaco, near the Port of Cartagena, with 2,520 pallet positions and about 1,900 metric tons of capacity split between minus 18 degree frozen space and 0 to 4 degree refrigerated space, plus a blast freezing tunnel rated at 10 tons per day for meat, seafood, produce and dairy clients.
Ecuadorian-Swiss company operating since 1989 as a bonded temporary customs warehouse at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, specializing in storage of perishable import cargo with real-time monitoring and a dedicated tracking app.
Frozar operates refrigerated and frozen product transport from its Mérida, Yucatán base, covering Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Campeche and Tabasco with dedicated regional runs plus last mile deliveries within a 30 km radius of the city.
Integrated logistics operator present in Guatemala since 2009, running 6,560 square meters of warehouse space across two sites including Zona Franca SADINSA in Mixco, with customs brokerage, GPS tracked distribution and 24 hour monitoring.
Operates a 3PL warehouse at France Field in the Colon Free Zone offering air, ocean and land cargo consolidation, cross docking and distribution across Central America, the Caribbean and the United States, and holds IATA cargo agent accreditation.
Certified logistics operator running BPADT-certified warehouses in Quito and Guayaquil, holding ARCSA storage and distribution certification, a Ministry of Public Health logistics operating permit and an ANT heavy-cargo transport permit, serving pharmaceutical and healthcare clients with temperature-controlled tracking.
Ecuadorian logistics group founded in 1953 in Guayaquil, offering air and maritime freight forwarding, customs brokerage, land transport, container yard and warehousing services, with branch offices in Quito, Cuenca and Manta.
GS Autotransportes is based at Altamira's Puerto Industrial with more than 25 years of experience, running GPS and generator-equipped refrigerated units for produce, seafood, frozen meat and pharmaceuticals alongside warehouse storage and customs brokerage services.
Logistics operator based in Amatitlan with over 67 years in ground transport, ocean FCL and LCL, air freight and customs brokerage between Mexico and Central America, processing roughly 60,000 shipments a year with real time tracking.
ANMAT authorized logistics operator headquartered in Rosario since 2009, holding ANMAT registration 2069/18 and ISO 9001:2015 certification, running temperature controlled storage between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius and a dedicated cold chain unit, with additional bases in Cordoba and Tucuman.
Joanini Transporte e Logistica, based in Itatiba, Sao Paulo state, runs a refrigerated fleet fitted with Thermo King SLXi 400 units and multi-sensor temperature monitoring, offering nationwide dedicated and less-than-truckload transport, palletizing and labeling for perishable food, dairy and pharmaceutical cargo.
JSL, headquartered in Sao Paulo and founded in 1964, is Brazil's largest road logistics group, running a fleet of about 26,000 vehicles and offering cargo transportation, warehousing and urban distribution alongside commodity logistics serving agribusiness clients, projecting over 105 million tonnes moved in 2025.
K8 Logistica, founded in 2010 and based at Obras Maritimas 86 in Manzanillo, runs a refrigerated truck tractor and trailer fleet no more than five years old with real time GPS tracking for perishable, frozen fish, meat and pharmaceutical cargo moving through the port.
Kanejo Logistica operates five refrigerated logistics units in southeastern Brazil, including bases in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, providing door-to-door refrigerated and frozen cargo transport, cold storage chambers, warehousing and cross-docking with real-time temperature monitoring.
Ecuadorian logistics operator active since 2014, holding 534 registered ARCSA third-party warehousing and conditioning codes and running 4 warehouses across Ecuador for storage, distribution, transport and product conditioning of regulated goods.
Port operator in Montevideo, Uruguay since 2000, running container operations, general and project cargo handling, and intra port free trade zone warehouse services, moving over 287,000 containers and handling 800,000 container receptions and deliveries in 2021.
Movecta, the rebranded successor to Localfrio which operated for over 70 years, runs the only cold storage customs terminal at the Port of Santos with 82,500 square meters of bonded warehouse area and 5 cold chambers, plus integrated logistics and foreign trade services at Santos, Itajai and Suape.
Neptunia S.A. has run a maritime storage terminal near the Port of Callao since 1980 and operates a logistics distribution center about two kilometers from the port with 41 warehouses covering more than 80,000 square meters of customs bonded and simple deposit storage, supported by a warehouse management system.
OLO Soluciones Logisticas manages inbound warehousing, inventory control, order picking, packing, labeling, and dispatch for client goods held within Costa Rica free trade zones and national territory, processing more than 1,500 containers per year with quoted 99.9 percent receipt accuracy.
Private bulk cargo terminal operator at the Port of Nueva Palmira, Uruguay, located to the north of the ANP-administered port area, handling solid bulk commodities such as grain and fertilizer under the Nueva Palmira free trade zone regime.
Operates the container and general cargo terminal at Puerto Cortes under a 30 year concession awarded in 2013, with a logistics center holding 300 forty foot containers plus general cargo storage, refrigerated cargo handling, and cross docking services. Yard capacity reaches 1,000,000 TEUs annually.
River port and cargo terminal on the Canal Tamengo near the Bolivia-Brazil border, operating since 1988 as Bolivia's first international river port with sovereign access to the Atlantic via the Paraguay-Parana waterway. Handles general and containerized cargo, receives, stores and dispatches soy, meal, pellets and vegetable oils integrating rail and river operations, and moves project cargo up to 100 metric tons using cranes rated up to 140 tonnes and mineral conveyors rated up to 900 tonnes per hour.
Puerto Coronel operates a multipurpose cargo terminal in Coronel, Chile handling containers, general cargo and bulk freight, and was ranked Chile's top port in the 2025 World Port Performance Efficiency ranking.
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.
Road freight carrier headquartered in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, hauling sugar, cotton, soybeans, corn, bran, fertilizers, iron ore and limestone along Centre-West corridors that feed Brazil's export ports.
Founded in 1999, Rodoviario Teixeira Logistica has 25 years of experience transporting refrigerated and frozen cargo nationwide from its Recife, Pernambuco base, offering cross-docking, dedicated distribution and palletizing with a maintained multi-class refrigerated fleet.
Logistics operator founded in 1968 running 28,500 square meters of warehouse space across Rosario, Chacarita and Garin, with a pharmaceutical storage division, home delivery, container transport to and from ports, and a fleet of over 140 vehicles.
Contract logistics operator on Carretera Sánchez Km 11.5 in Santo Domingo offering reception, storage, order picking and dispatch services for third-party warehousing clients.
Bulk cargo port operator headquartered in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, running grain and fertilizer terminals at the port of Rio Grande with roughly 320,000 tons of combined static storage across two industrial units, a 200,000 ton facility at Imbituba and about 120,000 tons in Porto Alegre, loading and unloading agricultural grains, fertilizers, timber logs and wood pellets.
Operates over 54,000 square meters of warehousing in Rosario and Alvear, including a 1,440 square meter, 8,640 cubic meter cold chamber running between 2 and 10 degrees Celsius, plus fiscal bonded deposit and cargo handling services.
SRL Servicios Refrigerados Logisticos, headquartered in the Parque Industrial y Comercial de Cajica near Bogota and operating since around 2004, provides refrigeration equipment rental, refrigerated unit sales and technical maintenance for cold chain logistics serving flower, food and pharmaceutical exporters, with service points in Bogota, Cartagena, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Medellin, Cali and Bucaramanga.
SuperFrio operates 40 temperature-controlled logistics units across Brazil with a fleet of about 500 trucks, offering refrigerated transport, multi-temperature warehousing, fractional distribution and cross-docking for the food sector, headquartered in Ribeirao Preto and Barueri, Sao Paulo state.
Taff Brasil has more than 20 years of experience in cold chain food logistics, running 18 operational bases and six distribution centers across Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other states, offering dedicated and fractional refrigerated transport, warehousing and cross-docking with real-time temperature monitoring under ANVISA rules.
Talma Servicios Aeroportuarios S.A., founded in 1994, provides customs bonded warehousing, refrigeration chambers, and air cargo handling for perishable and general freight at airports in Lima, Arequipa, Chiclayo, Trujillo, Piura, and Tacna, and moved more than 160,000 tonnes of air cargo in its first year operating at the new Jorge Chavez terminal.
Terminal Pacifico Sur Valparaiso operates the main container terminal at the Port of Valparaiso, handling import and export container operations, ship berthing coordination and container weight verification, and has served over 4,300 vessel calls in the decade since extending its berth front, running an electronic documentary center for import customs processing.
Port terminal operator founded in 2002, running the Terport Villeta container terminal on the Paraguay-Parana waterway and the Terport San Antonio general cargo and RORO terminal. Reached 50,000 TEUs handled in 2014 and provides storage, cargo handling and multimodal land transport.
River and road cargo operator headquartered in Manaus with operational bases in Belem, Porto Velho, Santarem and Macapa, running single and double hull barges with pusher tugs plus truck mounted cranes to move general freight, vehicles, soybeans, corn, sugar, minerals and oversized machinery along the Solimoes-Amazonas waterway.
Transfrigoandinos S.A.S., headquartered in Bogota and authorized as a national land cargo carrier under Resolution 065269 of November 2002 following its 2001 founding under Decreto 173, operates a fleet of refrigerated, frozen and dry cargo trucks equipped with Thermo King units on Kenworth chassis for regional and national road transport in Colombia.
Road freight carrier with over 20 years in the market, headquartered in Guaramirim, Santa Catarina, operating directly at the port of Navegantes with a branch office in Itajai handling T1 tariff cargo on 24 hour delivery windows, moving frozen meat and wood export shipments through the Portonave terminal.
Transmedina Hnos. is a Lázaro Cárdenas based cargo transport and distribution company with operations dating to 1971, running reefer container equipment with satellite tracking for refrigerated cargo from the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas nationwide.
Refrigerated road transport operator based in Don Torcuato, Buenos Aires province, running temperature controlled trucks for fresh food at 0 to 8 degrees Celsius and frozen cargo at minus 18 to minus 25 degrees Celsius, serving Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza and La Plata under SENASA and HACCP protocols.
Ultramar is a Chilean maritime and industrial logistics group headquartered in Las Condes, Santiago, with roughly 73 years of operating history, providing shipping agency and port operations plus industrial logistics including transport, warehousing and cargo services connected to Chilean ports.
Registered in the Colon Free Zone company directory under the transport logistics activity classification, with premises in manzana 13-B of the Casco Viejo Zona Libre sector of Colon.
Zabarburu Business Group S.A.C., headquartered in Callao and active since 2014 with over two decades of cold chain sector experience, provides refrigerated road transport and cold chain logistics for Peruvian blueberry and other agricultural exports, including rapid pre-cooling, controlled atmosphere containers, and refrigerated ground transport to shipping ports.
Independent Panamanian company established more than 18 years ago operating warehousing, labeling and cargo handling services inside the Colon Free Zone, serving apparel, footwear and accessories brands distributing into Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
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Common questions
How do I choose a reliable logistics and 3PL provider in Latin America?
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 Latin America. 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 Latin America?
Verify their licensing and customs credentials directly rather than taking a website claim at face value, and confirm their actual operating radius within Latin America 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 Latin America handle both storage and transport?
Some do, but scope varies considerably, and it is common in Latin America 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 Latin America is actually reliable?
Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through Latin America 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 Latin America or an international one with a presence there?
It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in Latin America 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 Latin America, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.
What should I ask a provider in Latin America 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 Latin America, since that answer tells you more than a general pitch.
Sourcing logistics and 3PL across the Americas
Logistics and 3PL provision across the Americas spans enormous variation in road quality, port infrastructure, and customs efficiency, often within a single country. A provider based in a major coastal hub may have little practical reach into interior regions, where road networks are sparser and transit times less predictable, so confirming actual operating radius matters more than a provider's stated national coverage. Cross-border movement, whether between neighbouring countries or as part of a longer continental route, typically involves separate customs regimes and brokerage requirements at each frontier, and providers who are strong on one side of a border are not automatically equipped to handle the other.
Language varies by sub-region, with Spanish, Portuguese, and English each dominant in different markets, and documentation standards are not uniform even where a shared language exists. Warehousing options include both ambient and dry storage as well as temperature-controlled facilities, with availability concentrated near major population and production centres rather than spread evenly across a country. Rural and agricultural export zones in particular can be a considerable distance from the nearest bonded or licensed storage, which affects how a supply chain is structured from the point of production onward.
Seasonal weather, from hurricane exposure on some coasts to heavy rain affecting inland roads elsewhere, is a recurring planning factor rather than an occasional disruption, and providers with local experience will usually build contingency into their scheduling as a matter of course. Verifying whether a provider handles customs brokerage directly or subcontracts it is a useful early question, since responsibility and liability can otherwise become unclear if a shipment is delayed at the border.
How trade moves through Latin America
Latin America covers enormous geographic and climatic range, and its trade infrastructure follows that range rather than smoothing over it. Major agricultural exporting nations along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts operate substantial, modern port systems built specifically around grain, meat, produce, and other bulk and refrigerated agricultural exports, while inland and Andean economies depend more heavily on overland transport to reach a coastal port, often crossing a neighbouring country to do so. This means a meaningful share of the region's agricultural trade is genuinely transnational in its routing before it ever becomes international in its final destination, with goods produced in one country regularly exported through a port in another.
The region's trade geography is shaped by long north-south and coast-to-interior distances, mountain ranges that constrain overland routes to specific corridors, and a strong seasonal cycle tied to Southern Hemisphere harvest timing that runs opposite the Northern Hemisphere's. Refrigerated and ambient storage capacity is well developed around major export ports and agricultural processing zones, particularly for produce, meat, and grain destined for demanding export markets, but capacity thins noticeably away from those established corridors. Inland transport by road remains dominant across much of the region, and road quality, border crossing efficiency, and customs processing speed vary considerably between countries, which affects lead times more than shipping schedules do once cargo actually reaches a port.
Provider structures vary by country and by how export-oriented that country's agricultural sector is. The larger exporting nations support sizeable, experienced freight forwarding and cold-chain logistics sectors used to meeting demanding international food safety and traceability requirements, alongside major international shipping lines calling at their main ports directly. Elsewhere in the region, particularly in smaller or less export-focused economies, the provider base is thinner and more generalist, and cargo may need to move through a neighbouring country's more developed logistics sector to reach an international buyer at all. Family-owned transport and logistics operators remain common throughout the region and often carry deep, practical knowledge of specific agricultural corridors that larger multinational operators do not replicate.
Someone sourcing across several Latin American countries at once should pay close attention to where a shipment actually crosses into export infrastructure, since goods grown inland frequently travel a considerable distance overland, sometimes through a second country, before reaching a port. Import and export documentation, phytosanitary certification, and customs procedures differ meaningfully by country even where trade agreements exist between them, so a certificate or process accepted in one market cannot be assumed to satisfy another. Southern Hemisphere harvest timing also means this region's export peaks can run counter to those of Northern Hemisphere competitors, which matters for anyone planning supply continuity across sourcing regions rather than within Latin America alone. Language is largely shared across the Spanish-speaking countries, which eases coordination, but Brazil's Portuguese-language market and distinct regulatory system sit apart from that pattern and should be treated separately.
Building a sourcing plan across Latin America means recognising which countries function as export gateways for their neighbours, matching provider selection to how developed a given country's own export infrastructure actually is, and planning timelines around genuinely long overland legs rather than assuming port proximity for every origin point. It also means being specific about which coast, and which mountain corridor, a given origin actually depends on, since two countries that look close together on a map can in practice route their exports through entirely different ports and logistics networks.
Comparing logistics providers in Latin America
Fernable lists a wide range of logistics and 3PL providers in Latin America, 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 Latin America, 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 Latin America 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 Latin America. 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.