Top 3PL Companies in 2026: Rankings, Revenue, & Costs

The top third-party logistics (3PL) companies in the U.S. by 2025 gross logistics revenue are C.H. Robinson at $14.8 billion, GXO Logistics at $13.2 billion, and J.B. Hunt at $11.3 billion, according to Armstrong & Associates.

This guide covers the largest U.S. and global providers, what separates them, and how to work out which tier of provider fits your volume before you look at how much a 3PL costs.

*Amazon’s figure is its Third-Party Seller Services line, which combines marketplace commissions with fulfillment and shipping fees. Armstrong & Associates footnotes it as such. No other company on this list books sales commissions as logistics revenue, so Amazon’s position reflects how the category is defined rather than a like-for-like comparison. That said, Amazon’s actual logistics business is real and growing. In May 2026, the company consolidated its logistics arms under a single brand, Amazon Supply Chain Services, covering freight, fulfillment, parcel, ocean consolidation, air cargo and LTL.

1. C.H. Robinson

C.H. Robinson is the largest conventional 3PL in the U.S., and the gap between its two revenue figures is the clearest illustration of how these rankings work. Armstrong & Associates credits it with $14.77 billion in 3PL revenue, while the company reported $16.2 billion in total revenue for 2025, down 8.4% from the prior year. Its adjusted gross profit, which is the industry’s version of net revenue, was $2.73 billion.

The decline came from selling its Europe Surface Transportation business, lower ocean pricing and volume, and lower truckload fuel surcharges. North American Surface Transportation brought in $11.56 billion and Global Forwarding $3.09 billion.

2. GXO Logistics

GXO is the largest pure-play contract logistics company in the world and the only provider in the U.S. top 10 that grew at a double-digit rate in 2025. Revenue reached $13.2 billion, up 12.5% from $11.7 billion, with adjusted EBITDA of $881 million.

Net income was $36 million on that $13.2 billion. Contract warehousing runs on thin margins even at enormous scale, and that reality shapes what any warehousing 3PL can offer on price. GXO was spun off from XPO in 2021 and does no brokerage at all.

3. J.B. Hunt

J.B. Hunt reported $12.0 billion in total operating revenue for 2025, down about 1%, with operating income of $865.1 million. Armstrong credits $11.28 billion of that to 3PL activity.

Intermodal is the largest segment at $5.98 billion, followed by Dedicated Contract Services at $3.38 billion, Final Mile at $823.6 million and Truckload at $733.6 million. Integrated Capacity Solutions is the smallest segment at $1.11 billion.

4. Expeditors International

Expeditors is the one company in the top 10 where the Armstrong figure and the company’s own reporting match exactly. Total revenues were $11.069 billion for 2025, up 4% from $10.601 billion, with net earnings of $810.3 million.

The model is non-asset international forwarding. Expeditors owns no aircraft and no ships, and it buys capacity from carriers and resells it with service layered on top.

5. UPS Supply Chain Solutions

UPS Supply Chain Solutions booked $8.77 billion in 3PL revenue in 2025, ranking sixth overall and fifth among conventional providers. It is the contract logistics and forwarding arm of a parcel carrier, which makes it structurally different from everything else on this list.

That integration is the pitch. A shipper can move freight internationally, warehouse it and then distribute it through the UPS parcel network without handing off between vendors. The tradeoff is that the parcel relationship tends to shape the logistics relationship.

6. Kuehne+Nagel

Kuehne+Nagel’s North American business generated $8.45 billion in 2025 according to Armstrong, placing it seventh in the U.S. Globally the parent is one of the three largest 3PLs in the world, reporting net turnover of CHF 24.48 billion with gross profit of CHF 8.8 billion.

Worth noting that Armstrong lists Kuehne+Nagel’s global figure at $33.84 billion, which sits on a different accounting basis than the company’s own net turnover reporting. The two numbers are not comparable directly. Volumes for the year came to 4.3 million TEU of sea freight and 2.2 million tonnes of air freight, the latter up 7%.

7. Ryder Supply Chain Solutions

Ryder’s $7.80 billion ranking figure combines two reportable segments, Supply Chain Solutions at $5.459 billion and Dedicated Transportation Solutions at $2.343 billion. Ryder’s total company revenue for 2025 was $12.7 billion, and its Fleet Management Solutions segment accounts for most of the rest.

Anyone quoting “$7.8 billion” as Ryder’s supply chain revenue is overstating it by roughly $2.3 billion. Supply Chain Solutions alone grew 3% in 2025, while Dedicated Transportation Solutions declined 4%.

8. Total Quality Logistics

Total Quality Logistics is the largest privately held freight broker in the U.S., credited with $7.43 billion in 2025 gross revenue by Armstrong & Associates. Because TQL is private and publishes no financial statements, that figure is Armstrong’s rather than as company-reported.

TQL is a pure brokerage, which makes it a clean example of the gross revenue effect covered in the next section. A broker books the full value of every load it arranges, so its top-line number sits far above what it actually keeps.

Pro tip: A company’s rank tells you nothing about service quality, account attention or whether the provider will even quote your volume. Read the advantages of 3PL partnerships first, then shortlist on fit rather than revenue.

A broker that arranges a $2,000 truckload books the entire $2,000 as revenue and keeps perhaps $300 of it. A warehouse that charges $2,000 to store and ship your goods books $2,000 and keeps most of it. Domestic Transportation Management, the segment brokers live in, is the largest in the market by gross revenue and by far the smallest by net revenue.

Both gross and net revenue grew about 5% in 2025. Armstrong has described the freight recession that began in late 2022 as nearing its end, crediting tariff complexity that benefited forwarders and tight carrier capacity that supported brokers.

DSV’s jump to second place deserves context. Its revenue rose from DKK 167.1 billion to DKK 247.3 billion, roughly 48%, and that is the DB Schenker acquisition consolidating rather than organic growth. DSV has said about 30% of the integration was completed in 2025 with the remainder expected by the end of 2026.

• Domestic Transportation Management: Arranging domestic freight, mostly truckload and LTL. This is where freight brokers sit.
• International Transportation Management: Air and ocean forwarding, customs brokerage and cross-border compliance.
• Dedicated Contract Carriage: Committed trucks, drivers and equipment assigned to one shipper.
• Value-Added Warehousing and Distribution: Storage, picking, packing, kitting and order fulfillment.

Enterprise, 10,000-plus orders a month or multi-node distribution: This is the tier the ranking covers. Expect a formal RFP, a dedicated account team and a contract term of 12 to 36 months. At Fortune 100 scale, individual contracts frequently exceed $50 million a year. Large shippers also rarely use just one provider. Armstrong reports that 94% of domestic Fortune 500 companies now work with at least one 3PL, up from 46% in 2001, and the heaviest users run dozens in parallel. Volkswagen works with 74 distinct 3PLs, Walmart 72 and Nestlé 67.

Mid-market, 1,000 to 10,000 orders a month: Regional and specialist providers serve this tier better than the national names do, because you will be a small account at a large 3PL and a priority account at a smaller one. Our roundup of the best order fulfillment companies covers providers built for this volume.

Small business, under 1,000 orders a month: Most companies in the ranking above will not quote you at all, and the ones that will are pricing for a customer you are not yet. At this stage the decision is usually not which 3PL to hire but whether to outsource fulfillment at all.

A 3PL charges setup fees, monthly minimums and per-order rates. Below a few hundred orders a month, those fixed costs commonly exceed what you would save on labor and shipping rates.

The better move at that stage is usually to tighten the shipping operation you already run. Comparing rates across carriers on every order, automating label creation and batching pickups recovers most of the cost advantage a 3PL would give you, without the minimums or the contract. Run the math against our breakdown of how much a 3PL costs before you commit to anything.

You have outgrown self-fulfillment when order processing eats more than two hours a day, you are paying for outside storage, you are missing carrier cutoffs, or you are turning down wholesale business because you cannot ship a pallet.

• Match the segment to your actual need. A company that dominates domestic brokerage may have no warehousing at all. Check which of the four segments the provider actually operates in.
• Find out whether they own capacity or broker it. Asset-based providers control the trucks and warehouses. Non-asset providers arrange them.
• Ask for references in your vertical. Cold chain, hazmat, apparel returns, and high-value electronics are specializations, not universal capabilities.
• Confirm the systems actually connect. Ask what integrates natively with your order platform and your ERP. Our guide to freight shipping APIs covers what to look for.
• Understand the pricing basis. Per order, per pallet, per cubic foot and cost-plus all behave differently as you scale. Get a sample invoice modeled on your real volume.
• Read the contract term and the exit clause. Ask what notice period applies and what happens to your inventory if you leave. Also confirm the process for shipping freight to a fulfillment center during onboarding.

The rankings on this page tell you who is largest, which matters if you are benchmarking vendors or sizing the market. However, this matters much less if you are trying to hire someone. C.H. Robinson is the largest conventional 3PL in the U.S., GXO is the largest pure-play warehousing provider, and Expeditors is the one whose reported financials match its ranking exactly.

For everyone else, the useful takeaway is the gross-versus-net spread. It explains why brokers top these lists, and it is a reminder that a $14 billion revenue figure and a $2.7 billion gross profit figure describe the same company. Pick a provider whose segment matches your need and whose account size matches your volume. If you are shipping under a few hundred orders a month, no company on this page is built for you. Improving your own shipping process will do more for your margin than any contract.