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Best 3PL Companies in California (2026)

This list ranks 10 third-party logistics companies that run warehouses in California, across the Los Angeles port district and Inland Empire, San Diego, the Bay Area and the Central Valley. Each firm's California warehouse addresses were checked on its own website, and the 10 are compared on in-state warehouses, network size, order minimums, pricing model and services. Rank order runs top to bottom, with the facts for each firm in the table and on its card.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 101 warehouses in California between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the editorial team · How we rank

Illustration: container port with gantry cranes over stacked shipping containers

Top 3PLs in California at a glance

  1. 1ShipBobDTC brands splitting inventory across several US regions
  2. 2LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports
  3. 3Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing
  4. 4Saddle Creek Logistics ServicesRetailers and brands needing large multi-state DCs plus trucking
  5. 5GEODISBrands wanting omnichannel fulfillment on US multi-client campuses
  6. 6Weber LogisticsFood and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers
  7. 7AP ExpressBrands wanting a large Las Vegas warehouse plus own trucking to California
  8. 8Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together
  9. 9PRISM LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG brands shipping pallets and cases in NorCal
  10. 10Dependable Supply Chain ServicesImporters needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight

Compare California 3PLs side by side

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

#CompanyBest forIn CaliforniaNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1ShipBobDTC brands splitting inventory across several US regions14 warehouses51 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports27 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing3 warehouses44 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4Saddle Creek Logistics ServicesRetailers and brands needing large multi-state DCs plus trucking3 warehouses46 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5GEODISBrands wanting omnichannel fulfillment on US multi-client campuses20 warehouses150 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6Weber LogisticsFood and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers16 warehouses16 totalNot publishedCustom quote
7AP ExpressBrands wanting a large Las Vegas warehouse plus own trucking to California2 warehouses3 totalNot publishedCustom quote
8Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together3 warehousesNot publishedNot publishedCustom quote
9PRISM LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG brands shipping pallets and cases in NorCal7 warehouses7 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10Dependable Supply Chain ServicesImporters needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight6 warehouses12 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in California

1

ShipBob

DTC brands splitting inventory across several US regions

Visit shipbob.com

13 Southern California fulfillment centers, from Moreno Valley, Ontario and Redlands to Carson and Rancho Dominguez, plus a West Coast receiving hub at March Air Reserve Base. It fits DTC brands that want California as one region in a network that splits stock across the US and ships each order from the nearest building.

Strengths

  • 51 US fulfillment centers listed
  • Dashboard software and 50+ turnkey integrations at no extra cost
  • FBA prep and EDI through SPS Commerce, ordered from the dashboard

Worth knowing

  • No Northern California fulfillment center listed
  • Exact addresses shown only in the merchant dashboard
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • International
  • Value-added services
2

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

27 California cold storage sites typed as public, regional distribution or port warehouses, 12 of them in Vernon and the rest across Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Oxnard, Watsonville, Moss Landing, San Leandro and Manteca. The largest is 922,326 sq ft in Oxnard, with blast freezing, bonded space and a rail siding. It fits frozen and chilled food shippers that need port-area cold storage.

Strengths

  • States 480+ warehouses across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific
  • Customs brokerage, drayage and LTL consolidation at its Vernon and Los Angeles port sites
  • Nine cold-chain fulfillment centers set up for D2C orders

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
3

Buske Logistics

Food, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing

Visit buske.com

Three Northern California warehouses: one in Fairfield, a 106,000 sq ft FDA-approved food-grade building in Vacaville and a 27,285 sq ft FDA-approved cross-dock site in West Sacramento. It also runs a Fairfield 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 and warehousing together.

Strengths

  • 44 locations and over 8.5 million sq ft stated
  • Co-packing, kitting and FBA prep
  • Made4Net WMS with NetSuite

Worth knowing

  • Largest Fairfield building serves mainly 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
4

Saddle Creek Logistics Services

Retailers and brands needing large multi-state DCs plus trucking

Visit sclogistics.com

Three California warehouses totaling 1,235,500 sq ft: 630,000 in Buena Park, 433,000 in Ontario and 172,500 in Modesto, where a regional fleet serves Northern California. It fits retailers and brands that need retail distribution, subscription or DTC fulfillment and trucking from one firm with warehouses from Georgia and Florida to Illinois and Arizona.

Strengths

  • 46 warehouse locations and 31M sq ft stated
  • Private fleet of 440 trucks plus freight brokerage
  • Food-grade Buena Park building with 157 truck doors

Worth knowing

  • No ecommerce platform integrations published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Subscription boxes
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
5

GEODIS

Brands wanting omnichannel fulfillment on US multi-client campuses

Visit geodis.com

A Carson port gateway with 250,000+ sq ft of warehousing, 50+ dock positions and 300+ trailer spots, part of a port campus of six-plus buildings and more than 1 million sq ft with shared labor and Foreign Trade Zone options. It fits omnichannel brands that want B2B, DTC and marketplace orders filled from one inventory pool.

Strengths

  • States 150+ US facilities and 50M+ sq ft, including 20+ multi-client campuses
  • Amazon Seller-Fulfilled Prime, Vendor Central and Shopify integrations
  • ISO 9001 and FDA registered

Worth knowing

  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • Cold chain
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • International
6

Weber Logistics

Food and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers

Visit weberlogistics.com

16 California warehouses, from its Santa Fe Springs headquarters through the Inland Empire to San Diego, Stockton and Union City, including AIB-rated food-grade sites, hazmat storage in Chino and Santa Fe Springs and a 684,675 sq ft Foreign Trade Zone building in Moreno Valley. It fits food, consumer goods and chemical shippers that want one operator covering both ends of the state.

Strengths

  • Own drayage from the Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland ports
  • San Diego site 5 miles from the Mexico border, with six rail doors for transloading
  • Temperature-controlled LTL on its own trucks 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
7

AP Express

Brands wanting a large Las Vegas warehouse plus own trucking to California

Visit apexpress.com

Two Southern California warehouses, in Irwindale (listed as its Los Angeles location) and Corona, run alongside 74 of its own trucks. It fits ecommerce and retail brands that want Southern California space with a Las Vegas warehouse in the same company, where orders received before 12 pm ship the same day.

Strengths

  • Family owned, founded in 1992
  • EDI retail distribution and Amazon FBA prep
  • Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento and NetSuite integrations

Worth knowing

  • Warehouses only in Southern California and Nevada
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Value-added services
  • Last mile
8

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Importers wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together

Visit craneww.com

Three California warehouses: 315,000 sq ft in Chino for retail compliance and distribution, 109,000 sq ft in Commerce and 70,000+ sq ft in Hayward. It fits importers that want freight forwarding, customs brokerage and warehousing at both ends of the state from one firm.

Strengths

  • In-house customs brokerage
  • Air, ocean, rail and trucking alongside contract logistics
  • Proprietary Crane WMS with API and EDI connections

Worth knowing

  • Freight forwarding is the core business; warehousing is one service line
  • No ecommerce platform integrations published
  • 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
9

PRISM Logistics

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

Visit prismlogistics.com

Seven Northern California warehouses, which the firm puts at more than 2.3 million sq ft: Hayward, four in Stockton, West Sacramento off Interstate 80 and a 751,021 sq ft Lathrop building on Union Pacific rail. It fits food, beverage and CPG brands shipping to Northern California retail from rail-served, food-grade space.

Strengths

  • AIB Superior rated, certified organic and ISO 9001 compliant
  • Its own box trucks, tractors and trailers
  • SQF certification at Lathrop

Worth knowing

  • All seven warehouses are in Northern California
  • No frozen storage published
  • 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
10

Dependable Supply Chain Services

Importers needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight

Visit godependable.com

Six California warehouses: its Los Angeles headquarters, bought from Sears in 1993 as a 1.5 million sq ft distribution warehouse, sites in Commerce and Rancho Dominguez, and three in San Leandro, one of them an Oakland container freight station. It fits importers that want drayage, truckload and cross-dock at both the Southern and Northern California ports, and brands shipping to Hawaii or Guam.

Strengths

  • Operating since 1950
  • States 4M+ sq ft of warehouse space
  • Merieux NutriSciences food safety audit at Rancho Dominguez

Worth knowing

  • No ecommerce platform integrations named
  • LTL trucking business sold to Knight-Swift in 2024
  • 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

Why brands fulfill from California

California had an estimated 39,593,000 residents on January 1, 2026, and 10 of its counties have more than one million each: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino in the Los Angeles region, San Diego in the far south, Santa Clara, Alameda and Contra Costa in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Sacramento and Fresno inland.

Two port systems split the state. The Port of Los Angeles handled 10,239,318 TEUs in calendar year 2025, and LAX handled 2,229,898 tons of air freight the same year. In the north, the Port of Oakland handled 2,253,976 TEUs in 2025 and nearly all of Northern California’s containerized cargo goes through it. Moving boxes from either port to a warehouse is drayage, which 6 of the 10 firms here list as a service.

This list follows the same split: ShipBob and AP Express run only Southern California buildings, PRISM and Buske only Northern California ones, and Weber, Dependable, Saddle Creek, Crane and Lineage run warehouses at both ends of the state.

California exported $188.4 billion of goods in 2025, second among US states, with Mexico its largest market at $34.9 billion. For staffing, about 3,067,800 Californians work in trade, transportation and utilities (August 2026, preliminary).

Questions to ask a California 3PL

  1. Which of your California buildings would hold my inventory: Southern California, the Bay Area or the Central Valley?
  2. Do you move containers from the Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland terminals on your own trucks, or through a partner?
  3. Is that building shared with other clients, or run for a single client?
  4. Can you split my inventory between a Southern and a Northern California site?
  5. Which of your California buildings are food grade, temperature controlled or cleared for hazmat?
  6. Do you have Foreign Trade Zone or bonded space in the state?

California 3PL FAQ

How much does a 3PL in California cost?

Every company on this list prices by quote, and none of the 10 publishes a rate card or a minimum order count. ShipBob lists what its fees cover (implementation, receiving, storage and one pick, pack and ship fee) without the amounts, and charges extra for kitting and B2B orders.

How many 3PLs have warehouses in California?

This list ranks 10, each with California warehouse addresses checked on its own website. 4 are headquartered in the state: Weber Logistics in Santa Fe Springs, Dependable Supply Chain Services in Los Angeles, PRISM Logistics in Northern California and AP Express in Southern California.

Which California 3PLs offer port drayage?

6 of the 10 list drayage: Weber Logistics, PRISM Logistics, Dependable Supply Chain Services, ShipBob, Crane Worldwide Logistics and Lineage.

Is there cold storage 3PL space in California?

Yes: 5 of the 10 list cold-chain services, and Lineage alone accounts for 27 California cold storage sites. Weber adds chilled and freezer storage at its Chino building.

Which California 3PLs store hazardous materials?

Weber Logistics is the one firm here with hazmat storage at a California warehouse, at its Santa Fe Springs headquarters and in Chino, which takes flammables, corrosives, aerosols and oxidizers.

Which California 3PLs handle retail EDI?

7 of the 10 list retail EDI compliance: Weber Logistics, PRISM Logistics, ShipBob, Saddle Creek, AP Express, Lineage and GEODIS. All 10 list B2B or retail fulfillment.

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