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Top 3PLs in the San Francisco Bay Area: 10 Fulfillment Companies Compared

Every company on this page runs at least one warehouse in the Bay Area, whether in the East Bay port district, Silicon Valley, Solano County or the Stockton, Lathrop and Manteca warehouse belt, and we confirmed each address on the company's own website. You can set all 10 side by side on the buildings they run here, how far their wider network reaches, order minimums, pricing and services. They appear in ranked order, with the details in the table and on each company's card.

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

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

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
3Weber LogisticsFood and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers3 warehouses16 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4PRISM LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG brands shipping pallets and cases in NorCal6 warehouses7 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile1 warehouse30 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6Dependable Supply Chain ServicesImporters needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight3 warehouses12 totalNot publishedCustom quote
7Crane Worldwide LogisticsImporters wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together1 warehouseNot publishedNot publishedCustom quote
8Orion LogisticsConsumer product brands shipping to big box retailers and web buyers1 warehouse1 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9Silicon Valley DirectSmall and mid-size Bay Area ecommerce brands wanting one local warehouse1 warehouse1 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10FulfillPlusBrands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly1 warehouse3 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

For frozen or chilled food, Lineage has two Bay Area buildings. San Leandro, on Polar Way, is a 244,263 sq ft port site with drayage, customs brokerage, bonded storage and LTL consolidation; Manteca, on Spreckels Avenue, is 329,863 sq ft with blast freezing and a rail siding.

Strengths

  • BRCGS accreditation and co-pack and re-pack at San Leandro
  • Direct-to-consumer cold-chain fulfillment centers with a packaging lab
  • Lineage Link customer portal

Worth knowing

  • Built around food and temperature-sensitive goods
  • No published rates or 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
2

Buske Logistics

Food, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing

Visit buske.com

Buske's Vacaville warehouse on Eubanks Drive is 106,000 sq ft, FDA-approved for food, with 18 dock doors and a 31 ft clear height. Its Fairfield distribution center on Stanford Court, over 1 million sq ft, works mainly for glass maker Ardagh, and a second Fairfield building is listed without an address. Food and beverage brands can have co-packing and kitting done by the company that stores their stock.

Strengths

  • Founded in 1923; headquartered in Edwardsville, Illinois
  • FBA prep, subscription boxes and returns
  • Warehouses in Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Mississippi for a second region

Worth knowing

  • Most of its Fairfield space serves one client, Ardagh
  • Rates by quote
  • 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

Weber Logistics

Food and consumer brands distributing to West Coast retailers

Visit weberlogistics.com

Two of Weber's Northern California warehouses are in Stockton: 51,300 sq ft on Longe Street, AIB audited and kept at 55 to 65 F for confectionery, and 94,220 sq ft on Metro Drive for multi-client food and omnichannel consumer goods. A third site, on Whipple Road in Union City, is on its map. If you also need Southern California space, the same company runs 13 more warehouses in that half of the state.

Strengths

  • Shared public warehousing without long-term commitments
  • Its own dry and refrigerated delivery fleet
  • Shopify, Magento Commerce, Brightpearl, DropStream and Ecwid connections

Worth knowing

  • Union City's size and services are not published
  • No rates or order minimum published
  • 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
4

PRISM Logistics

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

Visit prismlogistics.com

PRISM is a family-owned Northern California firm with six warehouses in the area: one on Stearman Avenue in Hayward, four in Stockton and its biggest, 751,021 sq ft on South Harlan Road in Lathrop, where Union Pacific rail reaches the building. If you sell food, drinks or packaged goods to grocers, you get organic-certified, AIB-rated space and delivery on PRISM's own box trucks and tractors.

Strengths

  • Operating since 1993
  • Retail EDI through ANSI X12 on a customized TELUS WMS
  • ABC licensed and pharmaceutical certified

Worth knowing

  • Rates by quote only
  • Frozen storage is not part of its published offer
  • 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
5

NXTPoint Logistics

Southeast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile

Visit nxtpointlogistics.com

NXTPoint's San Jose building sits between highways 87 and 101 near the 680/280 interchange: 138,000 sq ft of Class A, food-grade space at 2020 South 10th Street with pick/pack, labeling and fulfillment. If you sell large items, its white-glove, room-of-choice and threshold delivery can carry bulky orders to the door or into the room the buyer picks.

Strengths

  • 250+ partner facilities beyond its 30+ owned sites
  • FF&E project logistics and installation
  • Shopify and Amazon connections plus EDI and flat-file

Worth knowing

  • Rates by consultation-based quote
  • Some city pages in its network give no street address
  • 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
6

Dependable Supply Chain Services

Importers needing port warehousing, drayage and West Coast freight

Visit godependable.com

If you ship to Hawaii or Guam, Dependable's Oakland container freight station on West Avenue 140th in San Leandro consolidates island freight and offers white-glove and final-mile delivery. Its two local warehouses sit nearby on Halcyon Drive. The company is based in Los Angeles and runs its own port drayage and truckload service.

Strengths

  • ISO 9001:2015 certified through its DHX unit
  • EPA SmartWay Transport Partner
  • Warehouses in Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, Maui and Guam

Worth knowing

  • Sold its LTL trucking business to Knight-Swift in 2024
  • Ecommerce pages name no platform connections; rates by quote
  • 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
7

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Importers wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together

Visit craneww.com

Crane's San Francisco-area warehouse is on Danti Court in Hayward: 70,000+ sq ft, with fulfillment and distribution run on its own WMS. Houston-based and founded in 2008, Crane is a freight forwarder and customs broker first, so you can hand it the ocean or air booking, the customs clearance and the storage together.

Strengths

  • Air, ocean, rail and trucking under one company
  • Foreign Trade Zone sites in Dallas, Houston, Laredo, Nashville and Savannah
  • Returns, kitting and value-added work

Worth knowing

  • No Shopify or marketplace connections published
  • Rates by quote
  • 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

Orion Logistics

Consumer product brands shipping to big box retailers and web buyers

Visit orionlog.com

Orion, operating since 1994, runs one Hayward warehouse: 100,000 sq ft of public and contract space on Eichler Street, fifteen miles from the Port of Oakland. If your consumer products go to big-box stores, it labels and ships to the routing guides of Amazon, Target, Walmart and Kohl's, and it fills web orders too.

Strengths

  • Apparel, toys, giftware, kitchenware and sporting goods among its commodities
  • Ticketing and kitting
  • Returns processing

Worth knowing

  • One warehouse, no second location
  • No Shopify or marketplace connections named
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • LTL and FTL freight
9

Silicon Valley Direct

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

Visit svdirect.com

Founded in 1999, Silicon Valley Direct runs a single warehouse on Ahern Ave in Union City under 24/7 video monitoring. Alongside ecommerce orders it prints on demand, fulfills literature and promotional items and sends presorted mail, so printed pieces and product orders can ship from one building.

Strengths

  • Over half its staff have been there more than a decade
  • Connections to BigCommerce, Magento, eBay and WooCommerce
  • Subscription boxes, kitting and returns

Worth knowing

  • Single location in Union City
  • Warehouse size not published
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Subscription boxes
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • International
  • Value-added services
10

FulfillPlus

Brands wanting Houston fulfillment plus kitting and light assembly

Visit fulfillplus.com

FulfillPlus runs its West Coast fulfillment center on Albrae Street in Fremont, and its Bay Area last-mile delivery leaves from the same building. You can pair it with the company's Houston headquarters site, which also does light manufacturing and component assembly, to add a Texas node.

Strengths

  • Amazon FBA prep and subscription boxes
  • Etsy, eBay, TikTok Shop and WooCommerce connections
  • In business since 2002

Worth knowing

  • Fremont building size not published
  • Quotes only
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • International
  • Last mile
  • Value-added services

Shipping from the San Francisco Bay Area: what the location gives you

Start with the people you would ship to: almost 7.7 million lived in the nine Bay Area counties in 2025. Hiring draws on roughly 338,300 trade, transportation and utilities workers in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metro and 117,300 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, per preliminary August 2026 counts, and the valley warehouse belt adds 85,800 more in the Stockton-Lodi metro.

Choosing between the East Bay and the valley is mostly a trucking question. I-880 and I-580 tie the Port of Oakland to the San Joaquin Valley, and key stretches of the two carry 15,000 to 37,000 trucks on an average day, according to MTC’s 2015 goods movement plan. A Hayward, San Leandro or Fremont building keeps your stock close to the port and to Bay Area buyers; Stockton, Lathrop and Manteca hold some of the biggest buildings on this list, including 751,021 sq ft in Lathrop.

For imported stock, almost every container moving through Northern California comes through the Port of Oakland, which moved 2,253,976 TEUs in 2025, half inbound and half outbound. The seaport covers 1,300 acres, with four container terminals, two intermodal rail yards and 50-foot channels, and air shipments can use Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, which handled 1.08 billion pounds of cargo in 2024.

That port makes this the import hub for the northern half of California. If most of your buyers are in the south, weigh this market against Los Angeles, which has its own container port.

What to ask before you sign with a San Francisco Bay Area 3PL

  1. When my container lands at Oakland, how many days until the stock is ready to ship?
  2. Would my products sit in the East Bay or out in Stockton or Manteca, and how does that change delivery times to Bay Area buyers?
  3. Can I start at a small monthly volume, and what does onboarding cost?
  4. Which of my sales channels connect directly to your system?
  5. Do your own drivers deliver locally, or does every order go to a parcel carrier?
  6. Can you hold chilled product, and at what temperature range?

San Francisco Bay Area 3PL FAQ

What does a Bay Area fulfillment company cost?

Expect to request quotes: all 10 companies here price that way, and none posts a rate card. Weber Logistics describes its shared public warehousing as free of long-term commitments.

Can a small brand use a Bay Area 3PL?

Yes: none of the 10 publishes a minimum order count. Orion Logistics and Silicon Valley Direct each run one local warehouse, and FulfillPlus runs its Bay Area last-mile delivery from its Fremont building.

Which Bay Area 3PLs connect to Shopify?

5 of the 10 name a Shopify integration: Weber Logistics, Buske Logistics, FulfillPlus, NXTPoint Logistics and Silicon Valley Direct.

Do Bay Area 3PLs have warehouses in other states?

6 of the 10 do, so you can add a second region later without changing provider. PRISM Logistics, Weber Logistics, Orion Logistics and Silicon Valley Direct keep every warehouse in California.

Is there food-grade warehouse space in the Bay Area?

Yes: 6 of the 10 list food-grade handling, namely PRISM Logistics, Weber Logistics, Buske Logistics, Dependable Supply Chain Services, NXTPoint Logistics and Lineage. For frozen goods, Lineage's Manteca building offers blast freezing.

Which Bay Area 3PLs offer local delivery?

5 of the 10 list last-mile delivery: Weber Logistics, Dependable Supply Chain Services, FulfillPlus, NXTPoint Logistics and Lineage. FulfillPlus runs Bay Area routes from Fremont, and Dependable's Oakland freight station lists white-glove and final-mile delivery.

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