Mostly, yes: its express, ground and home delivery networks move parcels and freight that are already packed. FedEx did 3PL work through FedEx Supply Chain until that business was sold to CMA CGM on October 1, 2026. FedEx Logistics still offers forwarding, customs brokerage and some 3PL services for international freight.

Does FedEx still own FedEx Supply Chain?

No. CMA CGM Group completed the purchase on October 1, 2026, at an enterprise value of $1.4 billion, 3 months after FedEx announced the deal on July 1. Alongside the sale, CMA CGM is to become a preferred, non-exclusive ocean carrier for FedEx.

Is FedEx Fulfillment a 3PL?

Yes, it does 3PL work: it takes in a merchant's inventory, checks and stores it, then picks, packs and ships orders and handles returns. FedEx lists 3 centers, in Trenton, New Jersey, Dallas and the San Francisco Bay Area. FedEx's 10-K places the service inside FedEx Supply Chain, so ask which company signs the contract.

Can FedEx Fulfillment ship with carriers other than FedEx?

Yes. FedEx lets merchants choose between FedEx and other parcel and freight carriers in its network, and compare the options by cost and speed. Carrier performance data and confidence ratings are part of the tools it shows merchants.

How much does FedEx Fulfillment cost?

FedEx publishes no rate card for it: pricing depends on order volume and inventory quantity and comes from a sales quote. Its page describes the service as built for businesses shipping thousands of orders a month. Ask for every fee line, postage included, priced against a real month of your orders.

Is FedEx Freight still part of FedEx?

Not since June 1, 2026, when FedEx spun off its less-than-truckload business as a separate public company. FedEx kept 19.9% of the shares. For a brand booking pallet freight, FedEx Freight is now its own carrier rather than a FedEx division.

Can my 3PL ship orders with FedEx?

Yes. A 3PL can ship on its own FedEx account and bill you for postage, or ship on your account so FedEx invoices you directly. Ask which one it uses, and whether it adds a markup to FedEx's charges, before you compare quotes.

Is FedEx a 3PL? Carrier Work, Fulfillment and the 2026 Sale

FedEx is a carrier first, so for most brands it is not a 3PL: it moves parcels that someone else has already stored and packed. Its 3PL work ran through FedEx Supply Chain, which operated warehouses and fulfillment for other companies until CMA CGM bought it on October 1, 2026, for $1.4 billion. Below: which FedEx businesses do what, where FedEx Fulfillment fits, and how to ship on FedEx through a 3PL.

FedEx moves parcels; a 3PL stores and packs them

The quickest test is who holds the stock before an order exists. A 3PL takes over the warehouse side of selling: it receives a brand’s inventory, keeps it on its shelves, and picks, packs and ships each order. A carrier collects the sealed box and delivers it.

FedEx is built for the second job. In the year to May 31, 2026, its Federal Express network moved an average of 14.6 million US domestic packages a day, counted on a 5-day week, using 700 aircraft and more than 180,000 motorized vehicles, according to FedEx’s 2026 annual report. The network’s job starts once a parcel is sealed and labeled.

The same report counts about 84,000 drop-off points worldwide, from roughly 2,000 FedEx Office stores to counters in more than 15,000 Walgreens and Dollar General stores. Like the counter at a post office, each one takes in a finished parcel, and none of them holds a brand’s inventory.

Logistics people number these roles by how much work a shipper hands over. A 1PL moves its own goods, a 2PL owns the trucks or planes that carry other people’s goods, a 3PL runs outsourced warehousing and fulfillment, and a 4PL manages several of them on the shipper’s behalf. On that ladder, FedEx’s delivery networks sit on the second rung.

Which FedEx businesses do 3PL work

FedEx Corporation is a holding company for several operating businesses, and 2026 changed which ones it owns. On June 1 it spun off FedEx Freight, its less-than-truckload carrier, as a separate public company and kept 19.9% of the shares. On October 1 it sold FedEx Supply Chain, its warehousing and fulfillment business, to CMA CGM Group.

FedEx business	What it does	Role	Owner in October 2026
Federal Express	Express delivery to more than 220 countries and territories, plus US ground and home delivery	Carrier (2PL)	FedEx
FedEx Freight	Less-than-truckload freight	Carrier (2PL)	Its own public company since June 1, 2026, with FedEx holding 19.9%
FedEx Logistics	Customs brokerage, ocean and air freight forwarding, managed transportation	Forwarder and broker, with some 3PL services	FedEx
FedEx Supply Chain	Warehousing, distribution, fulfillment, returns, repair and refurbishment	3PL and contract logistics	CMA CGM Group since October 1, 2026
FedEx Fulfillment	Ecommerce receiving, storage, pick and pack, returns	Ecommerce 3PL	Filed under FedEx Supply Chain in FedEx’s 10-K
FedEx Office	Printing, staffed shipping counters, drop-off	Retail access to the carrier	FedEx

FedEx Logistics is the part of FedEx that still sells some 3PL services. It specializes in international trade, and the 10-K lists third-party logistics in its suite next to air and ocean cargo, specialty transportation, customs brokerage and trade data, run from about 100 offices and facilities in 34 countries and territories. An importer bringing containers through customs is its customer; a brand that needs single orders picked for an online store is not.

FedEx Supply Chain: the 3PL business FedEx sold in 2026

FedEx Supply Chain did contract logistics work: it designed, opened and ran warehouses for companies in technology, healthcare, retail, consumer goods, automotive and industrial markets. The 10-K lists its services as inbound logistics, warehousing and distribution, fulfillment, contract packaging and product configuration, returns and disposition, test, repair, refurbishment and product liquidation, with nearly 10,000 employees as of May 31, 2026.

Its size depends on who is counting:

Source	Facilities	Warehouse space
FedEx’s supply chain web page, 2026	130+ warehouse and distribution centers, plus 30+ omni-channel and fulfillment facilities	40M+ square feet
FedEx 10-K, as of May 31, 2026	Over 150 facilities in its business description; about 70 logistics facilities in its property list	Not stated
CMA CGM completion release, October 1, 2026	Not stated for the business alone	About 34 million square feet added

The web page is a sales count of the whole network, while the CMA CGM figure is the space the buyer says it took on. FedEx announced the sale on July 1, 2026, as part of what its 10-K calls portfolio streamlining, and CMA CGM’s completion release confirmed the close on October 1 at an enterprise value of $1.4 billion.

The business joins CEVA Logistics, CMA CGM’s logistics arm, which now counts more than 240 North American locations and about 20,000 people on the continent. The 2 companies also agreed that CMA CGM becomes a preferred, non-exclusive ocean carrier for FedEx, and they plan an air cargo capacity deal on routes including Asia to Europe.

How FedEx Fulfillment works

FedEx Fulfillment is FedEx’s offer for online brands, and its own page lays out a standard outsourced flow:

A sales rep scopes the account. Products, channels and volume come first, and the inquiry form asks how many orders you ship each month.
Systems get connected. FedEx links its software to your store and marketplaces so orders reach the warehouse.
Stock arrives and is checked. Inbound inventory goes through quality control checks and into storage in what FedEx calls a secure grid.
Orders ship on the carrier you pick. Each order is picked, packed and handed to FedEx or to another parcel or freight carrier.
Returns come back too. FedEx says its returns service covers them, and its supply chain page describes QR-code returns that customers take to retail locations with no box and no label.

FedEx’s Fulfillment page lists 3 fulfillment centers, in California, Texas and New Jersey, with 2 more planned in Georgia and Indiana. The supply chain page names them as Trenton, New Jersey, Dallas and the San Francisco Bay Area, and says the 3 reach 96% of the US population in 2 days by ground. The buildings run around the clock, largely on multipurpose robots.

FedEx aims the service at sellers of apparel, health and beauty products, nutraceuticals, footwear and consumer packaged goods that ship thousands of orders a month, at international brands looking for a US fulfillment provider, and at companies leaving another 3PL. It publishes no rates: the price depends on order volume and inventory quantity.

FedEx’s 10-K files FedEx Fulfillment under FedEx Supply Chain, the business sold on October 1, so the first question for any FedEx Fulfillment rep is which company will sign your contract and who owns it.

FedEx labels, FedEx Fulfillment or a 3PL that ships FedEx

A brand can put FedEx to work in 3 setups, and only 2 of them involve a 3PL.

	Your own FedEx account	FedEx Fulfillment	A 3PL that ships FedEx
Who stores and packs	You	FedEx Fulfillment, in 1 of its 3 centers	The 3PL
Who picks the carrier	You, among FedEx services	You, from FedEx and other carriers	The 3PL, from the carriers it contracts with
Where stock sits	Your own space	Trenton, Dallas or the San Francisco Bay Area	The 3PL’s buildings
How postage is priced	FedEx list rates or your negotiated discount, plus surcharges	Inside the quote, by order volume and inventory	The 3PL’s FedEx rate, at cost or with a markup
Who chases a lost parcel	You, with FedEx	FedEx Fulfillment	The 3PL, which claims with FedEx

Amazon is the other large company that runs both a delivery network and warehouses for sellers, and through Fulfillment by Amazon it plays the 3PL role inside its own marketplace. At FedEx the warehouse work ran in separate business units, and in 2026 the largest of them changed hands.

For most brands the third column is the real choice. Here is a month for a supplement brand shipping 2,000 orders through a 3PL that sends nearly all of them by FedEx Home Delivery: 150 SKUs, 1.5 units per order and 8 pallets a month from its co-packer. The rates are example ranges, not anyone’s price list.

Sample month, 2,000 orders through a 3PL shipping FedEx

Receiving (8 pallets at $35 to $55)	$280 to $440
Pallet storage (20 positions at $22 to $38)	$440 to $760
Pick and pack (2,000 orders at $2.60 to $3.60)	$5,200 to $7,200
Extra units (1,000 at $0.45 to $0.70)	$450 to $700
Mailers (2,000 at $0.30 to $0.75)	$600 to $1,500
FedEx Home Delivery postage (2,000 at $8.50 to $11.50)	$17,000 to $23,000
Total	$23,970 to $33,600, or $11.99 to $16.80 an order

Postage is 68 to 71% of this month. If the 3PL passes on a rise the size of FedEx's 5.9% average list increase of January 2026, the postage line alone climbs $1,003 to $1,357 a month.

Getting FedEx rates through a 3PL

Postage is where FedEx shows up on a 3PL bill, and FedEx prices it in layers. The 10-K describes list prices published in its service guides, set by service, origin, destination, weight and size, with an average increase of 5.9% on January 5, 2026. A fuel surcharge on top resets every week from a fuel price about 2 weeks old, and demand surcharges apply in markets where volume runs high against capacity.

Across all its customers, FedEx took in $12.49 per US ground package in fiscal 2026 and $14.75 per US domestic package of any service. Those averages mix 1-parcel senders with the largest contracts, so a brand’s own rate through a 3PL depends on that 3PL’s FedEx contract and how much of the discount it passes on.