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Best 3PL Companies in Charlotte (2026)

This list ranks the 10 third-party logistics companies that run at least one warehouse in the Charlotte metro, from Concord and Statesville to Rock Hill, South Carolina, and each warehouse location was checked on the firm's own website. The ranking compares local warehouses, network size, order minimums, pricing model and services, and the comparison table and ranked cards give those facts for every firm.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 18 warehouses in Charlotte between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the editorial team · How we rank

Illustration: interstate interchange with freight trucks passing a warehouse park

Top 3PLs in Charlotte at a glance

  1. 1ProductivBrands shipping DTC, wholesale and big-box retail from one inventory
  2. 2LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports
  3. 3NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile
  4. 4Bonded LogisticsManufacturers and brands wanting Charlotte storage plus co-packing
  5. 5NewlAmazon sellers and importers wanting a small Charlotte hub
  6. 6Averitt ExpressShippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network
  7. 7Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together
  8. 8Logistics PlusBrands needing large-format warehousing plus global freight
  9. 9Guardian Logistics SolutionsBrands and forwarders needing Carolinas storage plus local delivery
  10. 10H&H Distribution ServicesCPG and food brands wanting a family-run Charlotte warehouse

Compare Charlotte 3PLs side by side

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

#CompanyBest forIn CharlotteNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1ProductivBrands shipping DTC, wholesale and big-box retail from one inventory2 warehouses5 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports2 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile1 warehouse30 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4Bonded LogisticsManufacturers and brands wanting Charlotte storage plus co-packing7 warehouses8 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5NewlAmazon sellers and importers wanting a small Charlotte hub1 warehouse2 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6Averitt ExpressShippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network1 warehouse58 totalNot publishedCustom quote
7Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together1 warehouseNot publishedNot publishedCustom quote
8Logistics PlusBrands needing large-format warehousing plus global freight1 warehouse18 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9Guardian Logistics SolutionsBrands and forwarders needing Carolinas storage plus local delivery1 warehouse4 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10H&H Distribution ServicesCPG and food brands wanting a family-run Charlotte warehouse1 warehouse1 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in Charlotte

1

Productiv

Brands shipping DTC, wholesale and big-box retail from one inventory

Visit getproductiv.com

Two Class A buildings in southwest Charlotte, on Brookford Street and Carowinds Boulevard, with about 250,000 sq ft between them, container receiving and transloading, and a retail compliance team on site. It fits brands that ship DTC, wholesale and big-box retail orders from one inventory and need kitting and retailer EDI alongside.

Strengths

  • Published kitting rates: $0.04 to $0.08 per item placed plus a $0.25 to $0.75 base kit fee
  • EDI pre-wired to 100+ retailers; new retailer connections in 2 to 4 weeks
  • Its own Extensiv WMS instance, with Shopify, NetSuite, SAP and SPS Commerce integrations

Worth knowing

  • States it is not the right fit for simple pick-and-pack brands shipping a few hundred orders a month
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Contract packaging
  • Value-added services
  • Food grade
  • International
2

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

A 359,412 sq ft cold regional distribution center on General Drive with 11,879,453 cu ft of capacity, plus a 140,876 sq ft public cold warehouse in Statesville. It fits food companies that need frozen or chilled space in the Charlotte metro inside a network Lineage puts at 480+ warehouses.

Strengths

  • Blast freezing and drayage at the Statesville public warehouse
  • Facility pages publish square footage and cubic capacity
  • Customs brokerage, bonded space and LTL consolidation offered across the network

Worth knowing

  • Food and temperature-sensitive product focus
  • Quote-only pricing; no published order minimum
  • 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

NXTPoint Logistics

Southeast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile

Visit nxtpointlogistics.com

A 50,000 sq ft military-approved Class A warehouse at 1520 Tar Heel Road, within 10 miles of Charlotte Douglas airport, with 5 dock doors, a 28 ft ceiling and pick, pack and fulfillment. It fits shippers that want Charlotte storage tied to white glove final-mile delivery and FF&E installation.

Strengths

  • Part of The Suddath Companies, with 30+ owned facilities and 3.5M+ sq ft of warehouse space
  • Korber One WMS with Shopify, Amazon, EDI, API and flat-file connections
  • Room-of-choice, threshold and white glove delivery for bulky goods

Worth knowing

  • Quote-only pricing; no published rates or minimum
  • 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

Bonded Logistics

Manufacturers and brands wanting Charlotte storage plus co-packing

Visit bondedlogistics.com

Seven warehouses in Charlotte and Concord, from 75,700 to 495,000 sq ft each and about 1.53 million sq ft combined, split between shared public space and single-client buildings. It fits manufacturers and CPG brands that want Charlotte storage, co-packing through its Bonded Pac division and freight brokerage from one company.

Strengths

  • Temperature-controlled and hazardous storage at its Westinghouse Blvd. and Statesville Rd. warehouses
  • Food packaging operation with SQF, AIB and FDA credentials
  • Family-owned; headquartered in Charlotte; founded 1972

Worth knowing

  • Every warehouse is in North Carolina
  • Quote-only pricing; no storefront integrations named
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Returns
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Contract packaging
  • Food grade
  • Hazmat
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • International
  • Value-added services
5

Newl

Amazon sellers and importers wanting a small Charlotte hub

Visit newlgroup.com

A 35,000 sq ft racked warehouse on Sandy Porter Road that handles pallet storage, FBA prep, pick and pack, B2B orders and container devanning. It fits Amazon sellers and importers, including brands running Canada-US programs that transfer stock from its Mississauga, Ontario hub.

Strengths

  • Receives and devans import containers routed through Charleston and Savannah
  • Connects to Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Amazon, Walmart Marketplace, TikTok Shop and Etsy
  • Teamship WMS

Worth knowing

  • One US warehouse, 35,000 sq ft
  • Quote-only pricing; requirements reviewed account by account
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • International
  • Value-added services
6

Averitt Express

Shippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network

Visit averitt.com

A multi-tenant distribution and fulfillment center on Ridge Creek Drive, over 120,000 sq ft, with pick and pack, e-commerce order fulfillment and cross-docking, tied to Averitt's own LTL and truckload network. It fits shippers already moving LTL or truckload freight who want warehousing without a contract.

Strengths

  • Contract-free short-term, seasonal and overflow warehousing, billed for space and time used
  • Extensiv WMS with a Shopify integration
  • Own drayage with 1,000+ chassis, plus transload and bonded container freight stations

Worth knowing

  • No West Coast or Northeast warehouse locations listed
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Last mile
  • Food grade
  • Bulky and heavy
  • FTZ and bonded
  • International
7

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Importers wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together

Visit craneww.com

A 160,000 sq ft contract logistics warehouse on Entrance Drive, with yard space for staging and transloading. It fits importers that want freight forwarding, customs brokerage and Charlotte warehousing from one provider.

Strengths

  • In-house customs brokerage alongside air, ocean, rail and trucking
  • Proprietary Crane WMS with API and EDI connections
  • US warehouses at major ports and airports, from 33,500 to 600,000 sq ft

Worth knowing

  • Freight forwarding is the core business; warehousing is one service line
  • Quote-only pricing; 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
8

Logistics Plus

Brands needing large-format warehousing plus global freight

Visit logisticsplus.com

A 500,000 sq ft warehouse at 2601 David Hutchison Road in Rock Hill, South Carolina, just south of Charlotte, opened in July 2022 for storage and fulfillment. It fits brands that need large-format space near Charlotte plus freight forwarding, brokerage and customs from the same company.

Strengths

  • Rock Hill warehouse licensed for alcohol products
  • States nearly 12 million sq ft of warehousing across North America
  • In-house freight forwarding, brokerage, customs and project cargo

Worth knowing

  • Quote-only pricing; no published rates or order minimum
  • Freight forwarding and brokerage are the core business
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Food grade
  • Bulky and heavy
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • FTZ and bonded
  • International
  • Last mile
9

Guardian Logistics Solutions

Brands and forwarders needing Carolinas storage plus local delivery

Visit teamguardian.com

A 180,000 sq ft warehouse on Old Dowd Road near Charlotte Douglas airport, with 41 dock doors, a customs-bonded container freight station, and e-commerce fulfillment, kitting and pick and pack. It fits importers and forwarders that want airfreight pickup, bonded storage and local delivery handled by one provider.

Strengths

  • TSA-compliant staff at every site
  • Own box trucks and trailers for first-mile, final-mile and white glove delivery across NC and SC
  • Storage billed as needed, with no long-term lease required

Worth knowing

  • Airfreight and container freight station work is a large part of the business
  • Quote-only pricing; no ecommerce platform integrations named
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • FTZ and bonded
  • International
  • Last mile
  • Value-added services
10

H&H Distribution Services

CPG and food brands wanting a family-run Charlotte warehouse

Visit hhdist.com

A food-grade warehouse on Wilkinson Boulevard, family-owned and operated in Charlotte since 1985, that is ISO 9001 certified and FDA, AIB and USDA approved. It fits CPG, retail and food brands that want case picking, contract packaging and customs brokerage from one local site.

Strengths

  • Shared and single-client space in the same food-grade building
  • E-commerce order fulfillment, EDI and case picking
  • Contract packaging, cross-docking and returns listed as services

Worth knowing

  • One warehouse; size not published
  • Quote-only pricing; no ecommerce platforms named
  • B2B and retail
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Contract packaging
  • Food grade
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • International
  • Value-added services

Why brands fulfill from Charlotte

Charlotte is served by I-77, I-85, I-40 and I-485, by CSX and Norfolk Southern, and sits within 250 miles of the ports of Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah. Import containers can also arrive by train: NC Ports’ Queen City Express runs intermodal rail between the Port of Wilmington and the Charlotte Inland Port, and the move from there to a warehouse is local drayage.

Charlotte Douglas carries the air side. It handled 205,700 tons of cargo in 2024, up 7.3% on 2023, and its all-cargo landed weight reached 814.7 million lbs in 2025, up 9.3% and 34th among US airports in FAA preliminary data. The airport also has an on-site intermodal facility close to major interstates.

Within North Carolina, that landed weight ranked second only to Greensboro, whose airport logged 1.13 billion lbs in the same data. Against Raleigh-Durham, the difference is on the ground: Wilmington containers reach Charlotte’s own inland port by rail, while Raleigh-Durham’s rail link from the port runs to CSX’s Carolina Connector terminal in Rocky Mount. The city of Charlotte also reached 945,000 residents by July 1, 2024, about 70,000 more than in 2020.

Questions to ask a Charlotte 3PL

  1. Which Charlotte-area building would hold my inventory, and is that space shared or single-client?
  2. Do my Wilmington containers arrive by rail at the Charlotte Inland Port or by truck, and who books that leg?
  3. Do you devan and transload containers on site, and how many days does receiving take?
  4. Which retailers are you already connected to by EDI?
  5. How do you add labor for the holiday peak, and how much of it is temporary?
  6. Does your quote itemize receiving, pallet storage, pick fees, packaging and freight?

Charlotte 3PL FAQ

How much does a 3PL in Charlotte cost?

All 10 companies on this list price by quote, so you compare proposals rather than rate cards. Ask each for receiving, pallet storage, pick fees, packaging and freight as separate lines so the totals compare.

How many 3PLs have warehouses in Charlotte?

This list ranks 10, each with at least one Charlotte-metro warehouse checked on its own site. 2 are headquartered in Charlotte, and Bonded Logistics runs the most local buildings, with 7.

Which Charlotte 3PLs do Amazon FBA prep?

3 of the 10 list FBA prep: Productiv, Newl and Logistics Plus. Newl's Sandy Porter Road warehouse handles FBA prep alongside pick and pack and container devanning.

Is there cold storage 3PL space in Charlotte?

Yes. Lineage runs a 359,412 sq ft cold distribution center on General Drive and a 140,876 sq ft public cold warehouse in Statesville, and Bonded Logistics offers temperature-controlled storage at 2 of its Charlotte warehouses.

Which Charlotte 3PLs handle retail EDI?

5 of the 10 list retail EDI compliance: Productiv, Bonded Logistics, Newl, Lineage and NXTPoint Logistics. All 10 list B2B or retail distribution.

Do Charlotte 3PLs handle import containers?

Most do: 8 of the 10 list cross-docking or transloading, and 5 list drayage. Guardian Logistics Solutions also runs a customs-bonded container freight station at its Old Dowd Road warehouse near the airport.

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