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Best 3PL Companies in the San Francisco Bay Area (2026)

This list ranks 10 third-party logistics companies with at least one warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area, which here runs from San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont and San Jose out to Solano County and the Stockton, Lathrop and Manteca corridor. Each firm's local warehouse addresses were checked on its own website, and the 10 are compared on local warehouses, network size, order minimums, pricing model and services. The ranking reads top to bottom; the table and each card hold the facts behind every position.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 21 warehouses in San Francisco Bay Area between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the editorial team · How we rank

Illustration: harbor warehouses beside a quay with a moored cargo ship

Top 3PLs in San Francisco Bay Area at a glance

  1. 1LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports
  2. 2Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing
  3. 3NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile
  4. 4Weber LogisticsFood and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers
  5. 5PRISM LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG brands shipping pallets and cases in NorCal
  6. 6Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together
  7. 7FulfillPlusBrands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly
  8. 8Silicon Valley DirectSmall and mid-size Bay Area ecommerce brands wanting one local warehouse
  9. 9Dependable Supply Chain ServicesImporters needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight
  10. 10Orion LogisticsConsumer product brands shipping to big box retailers and web buyers

Compare San Francisco Bay Area 3PLs side by side

Local warehouses, network size, order minimums and pricing model for every company on the list.

#CompanyBest forIn San Francisco Bay AreaNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports2 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing2 warehouses44 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile1 warehouse30 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4Weber LogisticsFood and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers3 warehouses16 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5PRISM LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG brands shipping pallets and cases in NorCal6 warehouses7 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together1 warehouseNot publishedNot publishedCustom quote
7FulfillPlusBrands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly1 warehouse3 totalNot publishedCustom quote
8Silicon Valley DirectSmall and mid-size Bay Area ecommerce brands wanting one local warehouse1 warehouse1 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9Dependable Supply Chain ServicesImporters needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight3 warehouses12 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10Orion LogisticsConsumer product brands shipping to big box retailers and web buyers1 warehouse1 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in San Francisco Bay Area

1

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

Cold storage in two Bay Area buildings: a 329,863 sq ft regional distribution center in Manteca with blast freezing and a rail siding, and a 244,263 sq ft port-area site in San Leandro with customs brokerage, drayage and bonded space. It fits frozen and chilled food shippers moving product through the Port of Oakland.

Strengths

  • States 480+ warehouses across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific
  • Nine cold-chain fulfillment centers set up for D2C orders
  • Amazon, Walmart.com and Costco.com connections

Worth knowing

  • Built for food and temperature-sensitive product
  • Quote-only pricing
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Subscription boxes
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Contract packaging
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • International
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Last mile
  • Value-added services
2

Buske Logistics

Food, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing

Visit buske.com

Two Solano County warehouses: a 106,000 sq ft FDA-approved food-grade building in Vacaville with 18 dock doors and one in Fairfield, where Buske also runs a distribution center of more than 1 million sq ft mainly for glass maker Ardagh. It fits food, beverage and CPG shippers that need co-packing or kitting next to their storage.

Strengths

  • 44 locations and over 8.5 million sq ft stated across the US and Canada
  • Co-packing, kitting and FBA prep alongside warehousing
  • Made4Net WMS with NetSuite; Shopify, Amazon and WooCommerce connections

Worth knowing

  • Its largest Fairfield building mainly serves Ardagh
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Contract packaging
  • Value-added services
  • Food grade
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
3

NXTPoint Logistics

Southeast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile

Visit nxtpointlogistics.com

A 138,000 sq ft Class A warehouse at 2020 South 10th Street in San Jose, run to food-grade standards, with pick/pack, labeling and fulfillment. It fits brands shipping bulky goods that want storage plus white-glove, room-of-choice delivery from the same operator.

Strengths

  • Part of The Suddath Companies, founded in 1919
  • States 30+ owned facilities and 3.5M+ sq ft
  • Korber One WMS, with Shopify, Amazon, EDI and API connections

Worth knowing

  • 8 dock doors and a 24 ft clear height at the San Jose building
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • International
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Last mile
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Food grade
  • Value-added services
4

Weber Logistics

Food and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers

Visit weberlogistics.com

Three Bay Area sites: two food-grade Stockton warehouses of 51,300 and 94,220 sq ft, the smaller held at 55 to 65 F for confectionery, and a distribution center in Union City. Food and confectionery brands shipping to grocery and mass retail are the fit, with containers pulled from the Port of Oakland on Weber's own trucks.

Strengths

  • Own drayage from the Oakland, Los Angeles and Long Beach ports
  • 16 California warehouses, including hazmat and Foreign Trade Zone sites in Southern California
  • Asset-based temperature-controlled LTL across the Western US

Worth knowing

  • Every named warehouse is in California
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Last mile
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • Hazmat
  • FTZ and bonded
5

PRISM Logistics

Food, beverage and CPG brands shipping pallets and cases in NorCal

Visit prismlogistics.com

Six Bay Area warehouses totaling more than 2.1 million sq ft: 200,000 sq ft in Hayward near the Port of Oakland, four buildings in Stockton and a 751,021 sq ft Lathrop site served by Union Pacific rail. It fits food, beverage and CPG shippers that want rail-served, food-grade storage and delivery on the same company's trucks.

Strengths

  • AIB Superior rated, certified organic and ISO 9001 compliant
  • SQF-certified Lathrop building with 60+ dock doors, nearly a third climate-controlled at 55 to 60 F
  • Warehouse clients get a discounted rate schedule on its own fleet

Worth knowing

  • No frozen storage published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • B2B and retail
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Food grade
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • International
6

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Importers wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together

Visit craneww.com

A Hayward warehouse of 70,000+ sq ft on Danti Court, running WMS-enabled fulfillment and distribution. It fits importers that want air and ocean forwarding, customs brokerage and warehousing handled by one firm.

Strengths

  • In-house customs brokerage
  • Proprietary Crane WMS, with API and EDI connections
  • US warehouses near ports and airports, from 33,500 to 600,000 sq ft

Worth knowing

  • Freight forwarding is the core business; warehousing is one service line
  • No ecommerce platform integrations published; quote-only pricing
  • B2B and retail
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Hazmat
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • International
7

FulfillPlus

Brands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly

Visit fulfillplus.com

A Fremont fulfillment center on Albrae Street, which also runs the firm's Bay Area last-mile delivery. It fits ecommerce brands selling on Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop and Walmart that want FBA prep, kitting and subscription boxes, with a Houston site as a second node.

Strengths

  • Operating since 2002
  • Connections to Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, TikTok Shop, Walmart, Etsy and eBay
  • Light manufacturing and component assembly at its Houston site

Worth knowing

  • No square footage published for any site
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • International
  • Last mile
  • Value-added services
8

Silicon Valley Direct

Small and mid-size Bay Area ecommerce brands wanting one local warehouse

Visit svdirect.com

A single Union City warehouse on Ahern Ave handling ecommerce, literature and promotional fulfillment, with print on demand and presorted mail in the same building. It fits ecommerce brands that also ship printed or promotional material and want both handled in one East Bay building.

Strengths

  • Operating since May 1, 1999
  • 80+ platform integrations, including Shopify, Amazon, Walmart Marketplace and NetSuite
  • States same-day order shipping

Worth knowing

  • Single warehouse; no second node
  • No square footage or certifications published
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Subscription boxes
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • International
  • Value-added services
9

Dependable Supply Chain Services

Importers needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight

Visit godependable.com

Two warehouses on Halcyon Drive in San Leandro plus an Oakland container freight station that consolidates freight for Hawaii and Guam and runs white-glove and final-mile delivery. It fits importers and island-bound shippers that want drayage, truckload and cross-dock from the same company as their storage.

Strengths

  • Operating since 1950, headquartered in Los Angeles
  • California organic processed product registration at its San Leandro and Los Angeles sites
  • Own drayage, transload and cross-dock near the Oakland, Los Angeles and Long Beach ports

Worth knowing

  • No ecommerce platform integrations named
  • Quote-only pricing
  • B2B and retail
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • International
  • Food grade
  • Cold chain
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Last mile
  • Value-added services
10

Orion Logistics

Consumer product brands shipping to big box retailers and web buyers

Visit orionlog.com

One 100,000 sq ft public and contract warehouse on Eichler Street in Hayward, fifteen miles from the Port of Oakland, shipping to big-box retailers, boutiques and web buyers. It fits apparel, toy, giftware, kitchenware and sporting goods brands that need retailer routing-guide compliance.

Strengths

  • Headquartered in Hayward and operating since 1994
  • EDI, ASN and routing-guide labeling for Amazon, Target, Walmart and Kohl's
  • Kitting, ticketing and returns

Worth knowing

  • Single warehouse
  • No ecommerce platform integrations named
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • LTL and FTL freight

Why brands fulfill from the San Francisco Bay Area

The Port of Oakland handled 2,253,976 TEUs in 2025, split evenly between imports and exports, and nearly all containerized cargo moving through Northern California goes through it, which makes Oakland the container gateway for the northern half of California. The 1,300-acre seaport has four container terminals and two intermodal rail facilities, with shipping channels dredged to 50 feet. Moving boxes from those terminals to a warehouse is drayage, which 6 of the 10 firms here list as a service.

Air freight has its own gateway: Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK) handled 1.08 billion pounds of air cargo in 2024. By road, MTC’s 2015 regional goods movement plan put average traffic on key segments of I-880 and I-580, the routes linking the port to the San Joaquin Valley, at 15,000 to 37,000 trucks a day. This list follows that corridor, with Orion, Crane, Dependable and one PRISM building near the port in Hayward and San Leandro, and PRISM’s largest buildings, Weber’s Stockton sites and Lineage’s Manteca center out in the valley.

Demand and labor sit close to the docks. Almost 7.7 million people lived in the nine-county Bay Area in 2025, and about 338,300 people work in trade, transportation and utilities in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metro, 117,300 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and another 85,800 in the Stockton-Lodi metro (August 2026, preliminary). A brand whose customers sit mostly in Southern California would weigh this market against Los Angeles, which has its own container port.

Questions to ask a San Francisco Bay Area 3PL

  1. Which building would hold my inventory: one in the East Bay near the Port of Oakland, or one in Stockton, Lathrop or Manteca?
  2. Do you pull containers from the Oakland terminals on your own trucks, or through a drayage partner?
  3. Is that building shared with other clients, or run mainly for one?
  4. Which of your local buildings are food grade, and which hold chilled or frozen goods?
  5. Is the building rail served, and can you unload rail cars on site?
  6. How do you staff for peak season, and does your order cut-off change in November and December?

San Francisco Bay Area 3PL FAQ

How much does a 3PL in the Bay Area cost?

All 10 companies on this list price by quote, and none publishes a rate card or a minimum order count. Silicon Valley Direct names its fee types (receiving, storage, pick and pack, shipping) and quotes each client, and PRISM Logistics gives warehouse clients a discounted rate schedule on its own trucks.

How many 3PLs have warehouses in the Bay Area?

This list ranks 10, each with Bay Area warehouse addresses checked on its own website. 2 are headquartered in the region, Orion Logistics in Hayward and Silicon Valley Direct in Union City, and each runs a single warehouse there.

Which Bay Area 3PLs offer drayage from the Port of Oakland?

6 of the 10 list drayage: PRISM Logistics, Weber Logistics, Dependable Supply Chain Services, Crane Worldwide Logistics, NXTPoint Logistics and Lineage. Weber and Dependable name the Port of Oakland among the ports they serve, and Lineage lists drayage at its San Leandro port site.

Is there cold storage 3PL space in the Bay Area?

Yes: Lineage runs cold storage at a 329,863 sq ft Manteca distribution center and a 244,263 sq ft port-area site in San Leandro. For temperature-controlled space short of frozen, PRISM's Lathrop building is nearly a third climate-controlled at 55 to 60 F, and Weber's smaller Stockton warehouse holds 55 to 65 F.

Which Bay Area 3PLs do Amazon FBA prep?

2 of the 10 list FBA prep: Buske Logistics and FulfillPlus.

Which Bay Area 3PLs handle retail EDI?

5 of the 10 list retail EDI compliance: PRISM Logistics, Weber Logistics, NXTPoint Logistics, Lineage and Orion Logistics. All 10 list B2B or retail fulfillment.

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