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Best 3PL Companies in Houston (2026)

This list ranks 10 third-party logistics companies with at least one warehouse in the Houston metro, from Brookshire and Sugar Land to Pasadena, La Porte and Baytown, and each location was confirmed on the firm's own website. They are compared on local warehouses, network size, order minimums, pricing model and services, and the ranking reads top to bottom, with each firm's facts in the comparison table and on its card.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 21 warehouses in Houston 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 Houston 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. 3Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL
  4. 4AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale
  5. 5Thrive 3PLMultichannel brands importing through the Port of Houston
  6. 6Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together
  7. 7FulfillPlusBrands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly
  8. 8Distribution AlternativesImporters needing retail-compliant B2B and DTC near the Port of Houston
  9. 9Averitt ExpressShippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network
  10. 10Freeway LogisticsBrands needing Houston storage plus kitting or light assembly

Compare Houston 3PLs side by side

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

#CompanyBest forIn HoustonNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports6 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing4 warehouses44 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL1 warehouse35 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale3 warehouses192 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5Thrive 3PLMultichannel brands importing through the Port of Houston2 warehouses2 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
8Distribution AlternativesImporters needing retail-compliant B2B and DTC near the Port of Houston1 warehouse4 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9Averitt ExpressShippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network1 warehouse58 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10Freeway LogisticsBrands needing Houston storage plus kitting or light assembly1 warehouse2 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in Houston

1

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

Six cold storage sites in Houston, Pasadena and La Porte, from 160,839 to 339,303 sq ft, all typed by Lineage as port locations. It suits frozen and chilled food shippers that need drayage, customs brokerage, blast freezing or LTL consolidation near the port.

Strengths

  • Blast freezing and railcar siding at the Highway 225 site in La Porte
  • Co-pack and re-pack at 5 of the 6 Houston-area sites
  • 480+ warehouses stated worldwide

Worth knowing

  • Food and temperature-sensitive product focus
  • 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

Three Houston warehouses on Market Street and the North Loop East Freeway, 365,000 sq ft with 64 dock doors between them, plus a 234,000 sq ft FDA-approved food-grade building in Sugar Land with 72 dock doors. It suits food, beverage and CPG shippers that need food-grade storage, co-packing or kitting in the metro.

Strengths

  • 44 locations and 8.5M+ sq ft stated across the US and Canada
  • Co-packing, kitting and automotive sequencing
  • Operating since 1923

Worth knowing

  • 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

Smart Warehousing

Food and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL

Visit smartwarehousing.com

A 142,000 sq ft Baytown warehouse on South FM 565 for ecommerce and B2B or retail fulfillment, 32 miles from the Port of Houston by the firm's count. It suits food and consumer brands that want ambient space here and refrigerated or frozen space elsewhere in the same network.

Strengths

  • 35+ locations and 15M+ sq ft stated, 3.7M+ sq ft of it temperature controlled
  • Retail compliance work with 200+ retailers, per the firm
  • Proprietary SWIMS WMS with integrations from Shopify to SAP

Worth knowing

  • Quote-only pricing; no published rates or order minimum
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Value-added services
4

Americold

Food brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale

Visit americold.com

Three cold storage sites: Baytown and La Porte, both typed as port locations, and East Hardy Street in Houston. It suits food producers and retailers that need cooler, freezer or deep-freeze space, with drayage at Baytown and rail at La Porte.

Strengths

  • Blast freezing at all 3 Houston-area sites
  • Zones from ambient to deep freeze at Baytown
  • SQF certification at 90%+ of its US and Canada facilities, per the firm

Worth knowing

  • No square footage published for its facilities
  • Quote-only pricing
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • International
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Value-added services
5

Thrive 3PL

Multichannel brands importing through the Port of Houston

Visit thrive3pl.com

250,000 sq ft across two Houston facilities, on Brittmoore Road and Griggs Road, with its Houston facility FDA registered for ingestibles. It suits multichannel brands that receive containers from the Port of Houston and sell on Shopify, Amazon, Walmart and TikTok Shop.

Strengths

  • EDI 850, 856 and 810 through SPS Commerce, plus routing-guide compliance
  • Month-to-month terms; onboarding usually $200 to $500
  • Runs on Extensiv WMS

Worth knowing

  • Pricing built for brands shipping 200 to 20,000 orders a month
  • Houston only; no warehouses in other states
  • 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
  • Value-added services
6

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Importers wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together

Visit craneww.com

A 526,000 sq ft warehouse at its Rankin Road headquarters in Houston, with a 60,000 sq ft foreign trade zone, a 15-acre laydown yard and temperature-ready programs. It suits importers and exporters that want freight forwarding, customs brokerage and warehousing from one Houston-based firm.

Strengths

  • In-house customs brokerage; FTZ sites in Dallas, Houston, Laredo, Nashville and Savannah
  • Air, ocean, rail and trucking alongside contract logistics
  • Hazmat handling and customs-bonded space at select sites

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
7

FulfillPlus

Brands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly

Visit fulfillplus.com

A Houston fulfillment center on Guhn Road, also its contact address, offering kitting, light manufacturing and component assembly alongside order fulfillment. It suits brands whose products need assembling or kitting before they ship DTC or B2B.

Strengths

  • Headquartered in Houston; operating since 2002
  • Also runs a fulfillment site in Fremont, California
  • Integrations with Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, Etsy and eBay

Worth knowing

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

Distribution Alternatives

Importers needing retail-compliant B2B and DTC near the Port of Houston

Visit daserv.com

One 855,000 sq ft building on Kingsland Boulevard in Brookshire, west of Houston, with 172 dock doors and 40 ft ceilings for B2B and retail fulfillment, storage, transload and cross-dock. It suits importers shipping retail-compliant B2B orders and DTC parcels from the same stock.

Strengths

  • In-house EDI team working in ANSI X12 and EDIFACT
  • Integrations with Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, NetSuite and QuickBooks
  • Operating since 1935, with sites in Texas, Minnesota and California

Worth knowing

  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Value-added services
9

Averitt Express

Shippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network

Visit averitt.com

A 250,000 sq ft multi-tenant warehouse on Wharton Weems Boulevard in La Porte with 59 dock doors and 80 trailer and chassis spaces. It suits shippers that want storage tied to Averitt's own LTL, truckload, drayage and transload network.

Strengths

  • Contract-free short-term, seasonal and overflow warehousing
  • 1,000+ chassis for drayage, plus bonded container freight stations
  • Extensiv WMS with Shopify ecommerce fulfillment

Worth knowing

  • Network covers the South and Central US; no West Coast or Northeast warehouses listed
  • 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
10

Freeway Logistics

Brands needing Houston storage plus kitting or light assembly

Visit freewaylogistics.com

A Houston warehouse at 8828 Taub Road with a temperature-controlled section, where it runs B2C and B2B pick and pack, kitting, display assembly and light manufacturing. It suits brands that need storage plus assembly work, with FTL and LTL shipping arranged from the same site.

Strengths

  • Cross-docking and returns processing
  • Labeling and display assembly
  • Second warehouse in Puerto Rico

Worth knowing

  • No facility size, integrations or WMS published
  • Quote-only pricing
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Value-added services

Why brands fulfill from Houston

Port Houston’s public terminals handled a record 4,303,345 TEUs in 2025, up 4% on 2024, and the Houston Ship Channel complex, with more than 200 private and eight public terminals, is the nation’s largest port by waterborne tonnage. Capacity is still growing: Wharf 7 at Bayport Container Terminal, completed at the end of 2025, adds more than 500,000 TEUs.

The trip from terminal to warehouse is local drayage. Port Houston served about 2.5 million trucks in 2025, with an average truck turn time of about 40 minutes, and 5 of the 10 firms here list drayage among their services.

By air, Houston Airports handled a record 562,809 metric tons of air cargo in 2025, 552,588 of them at Bush Intercontinental. The Houston-Galveston Customs District handled $353.7 billion in trade in 2025: $111.1 billion in imports and $242.6 billion in exports.

The 10-county metro had 7.9 million residents in July 2025 after adding 126,720 people in a year, a 1.6% increase. Within Texas, Houston is the ocean gateway, while Dallas-Fort Worth is the inland hub where four interstates meet, so importers weigh Houston’s port access against DFW’s road and rail reach.

Questions to ask a Houston 3PL

  1. Do you pull containers from Port Houston's terminals with your own trucks, or through a drayage partner?
  2. How many days does a container usually take from the terminal to your dock, and who pays if it runs past free time?
  3. Which of your Houston-area buildings would hold my stock, and how far is it from the Bayport terminal?
  4. Do you have foreign trade zone or customs-bonded space in the metro?
  5. For frozen or chilled goods, which zones does the quoted building have: cooler, freezer or deep freeze?
  6. What happens to my orders if the building loses power or closes for severe weather?

Houston 3PL FAQ

How much does a 3PL in Houston cost?

All 10 companies on this list price by quote, and none publishes a rate card. The one published cost figure is Thrive 3PL's onboarding fee, usually $200 to $500, on month-to-month terms.

How many 3PLs have warehouses in Houston?

This list ranks 10, each with a Houston-area location confirmed on its own website. 3 are headquartered in Houston: Crane Worldwide Logistics, Thrive 3PL and FulfillPlus.

Which Houston 3PLs are near the port?

Lineage and Americold type 8 of their Houston-area cold storage sites as port locations: Lineage's 6, and Americold's Baytown and La Porte buildings. Smart Warehousing puts its Baytown site 32 miles from the Port of Houston, and Thrive 3PL receives containers from the port at its Houston facilities.

Is there cold storage 3PL space in Houston?

Yes: Lineage runs 6 cold storage sites in Houston, Pasadena and La Porte, and Americold runs 3 in Baytown, La Porte and Houston. Buske's Sugar Land building is FDA-approved food grade, and Freeway Logistics has a temperature-controlled section in its Houston warehouse.

Which Houston 3PLs do Amazon FBA prep?

3 of the 10 list FBA prep: Buske Logistics, Thrive 3PL and FulfillPlus.

Which Houston 3PLs handle retail EDI?

5 of the 10 list retail EDI compliance: Distribution Alternatives, Thrive 3PL, Smart Warehousing, Lineage and Americold. All 10 list B2B or retail fulfillment.

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