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Top 3PLs in Houston: 10 Fulfillment Companies Compared

Each of the 10 companies on this page runs a warehouse in the Houston metro, spread from Sugar Land and Brookshire out to Baytown and La Porte, and we confirmed every Houston location on the company's own website. You can compare them on local buildings, wider network, order minimums, pricing model and services, in ranked order, with each company's facts laid out in the table and on its card.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 21 warehouses in Houston 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 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. 3AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale
  4. 4Thrive 3PLMultichannel brands importing through the Port of Houston
  5. 5Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL
  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
3AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale3 warehouses192 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4Thrive 3PLMultichannel brands importing through the Port of Houston2 warehouses2 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL1 warehouse35 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

Lineage has 6 cold stores in the metro: 3 in Houston, 1 in Pasadena and 2 in La Porte, the biggest being 339,303 sq ft on Red Bluff Road in Pasadena. Frozen and chilled food importers can clear customs, book drayage and consolidate LTL loads through the same operator.

Strengths

  • Blast freezing on Highway 225 in La Porte
  • BRCGS accreditation at 4 of the 6 sites
  • 9 D2C cold-chain fulfillment centers in its wider network

Worth knowing

  • Set up for food and temperature-sensitive goods
  • No published rates
  • 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

In Houston, Buske runs three warehouses, two on Market Street and one on the North Loop East Freeway, 365,000 sq ft in total, and in Sugar Land a 234,000 sq ft food-grade building with 30 ft clear height. Beverage, alcohol and packaged food brands that need FDA-approved space plus co-packing are the fit.

Strengths

  • 64 dock doors and 3 drive-ins across the Houston buildings
  • FBA prep, subscription boxes and returns
  • Shopify, Amazon and WooCommerce connections

Worth knowing

  • No rate card; quotes on request
  • 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

Americold

Food brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale

Visit americold.com

Americold's Houston-area cold storage is in 3 places: Nita Way in Baytown, North Broadway in La Porte and East Hardy Street in Houston. Food producers and food service suppliers can choose zones from cooler to deep freeze, with drayage out of Baytown and rail at La Porte.

Strengths

  • Blast freezing at each of the 3 sites
  • DTC cold-chain fulfillment from 5 US sites, tracked in SmarTrakr
  • Operating since 1903

Worth knowing

  • Facility sizes not published
  • Quotes only
  • 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
4

Thrive 3PL

Multichannel brands importing through the Port of Houston

Visit thrive3pl.com

Thrive is a Houston-only 3PL with 250,000 sq ft across two buildings, one on Brittmoore Road, where it offers tours, and one on Griggs Road. Brands importing through the Port of Houston and selling on marketplaces from Faire to Wayfair can start at 200 orders a month without a long-term contract.

Strengths

  • FDA registered for ingestibles at its Houston facility
  • SPS Commerce EDI and retailer routing-guide compliance
  • Storage billed prorated by the day

Worth knowing

  • Quotes only; onboarding usually runs $200 to $500
  • No warehouses outside Houston
  • 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
5

Smart Warehousing

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

Visit smartwarehousing.com

Smart Warehousing's Houston market site is in Baytown, a 142,000 sq ft warehouse the firm places 32 miles from the Port of Houston, handling ecommerce orders and B2B or retail fulfillment. Food and consumer brands that may need refrigerated or frozen space later can find it inside the same company, which states 3.7M+ sq ft of temperature-controlled space.

Strengths

  • Street addresses and square footage published for most sites
  • AIB-audited facilities, stated at 900/1000 or higher
  • Connections to NetSuite, SAP, Cin7 and SPS Commerce

Worth knowing

  • Rates by quote; no minimum published
  • 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
6

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Importers wanting forwarding, customs and warehousing together

Visit craneww.com

Crane is headquartered on Rankin Road in Houston, where its warehouse covers 526,000 sq ft and includes a 60,000 sq ft foreign trade zone. Importers who want one company to book the freight, clear customs and store the goods, with FTZ space in the same building, are who it serves.

Strengths

  • Texas warehouses in Irving, San Antonio, El Paso and Laredo as well
  • Mexican customs brokerage in-house at Laredo
  • API and EDI connections to its own Crane WMS

Worth knowing

  • A forwarder first, with warehousing as one of its service lines
  • No Shopify or marketplace integrations listed
  • 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

FulfillPlus is based in Houston, and its fulfillment center on Guhn Road does light manufacturing and component assembly as well as picking and packing orders. A brand whose products need assembly or kitting before they ship can keep that work and the fulfillment in one Houston building.

Strengths

  • In operation since 2002
  • FBA prep, subscription boxes and returns
  • TikTok Shop, Walmart and Etsy connections

Worth knowing

  • No facility sizes published
  • Rates by quote
  • 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

Distribution Alternatives' Houston-area building is in Brookshire, west of the city: 855,000 sq ft, 172 dock doors and 40 ft ceilings. Importers selling into big retailers can run transload, cross-dock and EDI-compliant store orders there, with DTC orders leaving from the same space.

Strengths

  • Its own EDI team handles X12 and EDIFACT
  • Walmart, WooCommerce and BigCommerce connections
  • In business since 1935

Worth knowing

  • Quotes only
  • 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

Averitt's Houston location is a 250,000 sq ft shared warehouse in La Porte with 59 dock doors and parking for 80 trailers and chassis. Shippers already moving LTL or truckload freight with Averitt can add storage without a contract, paying only for the space and time they use.

Strengths

  • Drayage and transload backed by 1,000+ chassis
  • 9 more Texas warehouses, including 400,000 sq ft in Grand Prairie
  • Bonded container freight stations in the network

Worth knowing

  • No warehouses listed on the West Coast or in the Northeast
  • Priced by quote
  • 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

Freeway Logistics' Houston warehouse is at 8828 Taub Road, and the bigger facility it moved into in 2021 includes a temperature-controlled section. Brands that need kitting, labeling, display assembly or light manufacturing done before B2C or B2B orders go out can have it handled in the same building.

Strengths

  • FTL and LTL shipping plus cross-docking
  • Returns processing
  • A second warehouse in Puerto Rico

Worth knowing

  • Size, integrations and WMS not published
  • Quotes only
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Value-added services

Shipping from Houston: what the location gives you

The 10-county Houston metro reached 7.9 million residents in July 2025, up 126,720 in a year, or 1.6%. Trade through the region leans toward exports: the Houston-Galveston Customs District handled $353.7 billion in 2025, of which $242.6 billion was exports and $111.1 billion imports. Air cargo set a record too, with Houston Airports moving 562,809 metric tons in 2025, 552,588 of them through Bush Intercontinental.

By sea, the Houston Ship Channel complex ranks first in the country for waterborne tonnage, across more than 200 private and eight public terminals, and Port Houston’s public terminals moved a record 4,303,345 TEUs in 2025, 4% more than in 2024. Room for more boxes arrived at the end of that year, when Wharf 7 at Bayport Container Terminal added more than 500,000 TEUs of capacity.

For the truck leg to your warehouse, the port served about 2.5 million trucks in 2025 at an average turn time of about 40 minutes. Next to Dallas-Fort Worth, an inland market served by four intermodal rail terminals, Houston puts your stock close to where ocean containers come off the ship. In the wider Texas trade picture, Houston’s role is ocean freight, while Port Laredo carried 62% of the state’s land-border trade with Mexico in 2024.

What to ask before you sign with a Houston 3PL

  1. Once my vessel is unloaded, how many days until my stock is available to ship?
  2. Can I walk the building my inventory would go to, and how close is it to the container terminals?
  3. Do you run your own drayage trucks, or book them through a partner?
  4. If I store food, which certifications does that building hold: FDA, BRCGS, SQF or AIB?
  5. Can I start below 1,000 orders a month, and what does onboarding cost?

Houston 3PL FAQ

What does a Houston fulfillment company charge?

You will need quotes: all 10 companies here price by quote. Thrive 3PL is the only one to publish a cost figure, with onboarding usually $200 to $500 and month-to-month terms.

Are there Houston 3PLs for small or growing brands?

Yes: none of the 10 publishes a minimum order count, and Thrive 3PL's pricing covers brands shipping 200 to 20,000 orders a month. Thrive 3PL and FulfillPlus are both Houston-based and both handle FBA prep and subscription boxes.

Which Houston 3PLs can pick up containers from the port?

5 of the 10 list drayage: Crane Worldwide Logistics, Smart Warehousing, Averitt Express, Lineage and Americold. Thrive 3PL also receives containers from the Port of Houston, and Distribution Alternatives offers transload and cross-dock at its Brookshire building.

Do Houston 3PLs also have warehouses outside Texas?

Yes: 9 of the 10 companies here also run warehouses outside Texas, so you can add a second region later with the same provider. Thrive 3PL is the one that operates only in Houston.

Which Houston 3PLs connect to Shopify?

7 of the 10 name a Shopify integration: Buske Logistics, Distribution Alternatives, Thrive 3PL, Smart Warehousing, Averitt Express, FulfillPlus and Americold.

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