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Top 3PLs in Seattle: 10 Fulfillment Companies Compared

Each of these 10 fulfillment companies runs a warehouse in the Seattle-Tacoma area, and we checked every local site on each company's own site. For each one you get its buildings here, its total network size, order minimum, pricing model and services, the same facts that set the ranking.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 25 warehouses in Seattle-Tacoma between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the research desk · How we rank

Illustration: container port with gantry cranes over stacked shipping containers

Top 3PLs in Seattle-Tacoma at a glance

  1. 1LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports
  2. 2Maersk Warehousing & DistributionImporters pairing ocean freight with US warehousing
  3. 3Long Road WarehouseImport brands needing port drayage, FBA prep and parcel shipping
  4. 4UNISImporters and omnichannel brands moving containers into fulfillment
  5. 5Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL
  6. 6PNW WarehousingImporters landing containers at Tacoma or Seattle for FBA and DTC
  7. 7Regal LogisticsImporters shipping to national retailers and DTC from one pool
  8. 8Biagi Bros.Beverage and food brands needing rail-served warehousing
  9. 9World Distribution Services (WDS)Importers landing containers at Savannah, Norfolk or Tacoma
  10. 10RyderOmnichannel brands wanting fulfillment plus Ryder freight

Compare Seattle-Tacoma 3PLs side by side

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

#CompanyBest forIn Seattle-TacomaNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports4 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2Maersk Warehousing & DistributionImporters pairing ocean freight with US warehousing7 warehouses114 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3Long Road WarehouseImport brands needing port drayage, FBA prep and parcel shipping2 warehouses2 totalNot publishedPublished rates
4UNISImporters and omnichannel brands moving containers into fulfillment4 warehouses41 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5Smart WarehousingFood and consumer brands needing ambient and cold space in one 3PL2 warehouses35 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6PNW WarehousingImporters landing containers at Tacoma or Seattle for FBA and DTC2 warehouses2 totalNot publishedCustom quote
7Regal LogisticsImporters shipping to national retailers and DTC from one pool1 warehouse3 totalNot publishedCustom quote
8Biagi Bros.Beverage and food brands needing rail-served warehousing1 warehouse30 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9World Distribution Services (WDS)Importers landing containers at Savannah, Norfolk or Tacoma1 warehouse5 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10RyderOmnichannel brands wanting fulfillment plus Ryder freight1 warehouse320 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in Seattle-Tacoma

1

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

At Pier 91 in Seattle, Lineage's 427,136 sq ft cold store has a bonded warehouse and a railcar siding, and 3 more port sites sit on SW Michigan Street, in Algona and in Tacoma. Frozen and chilled food shippers get drayage from every site and customs brokerage in Algona and Tacoma.

Strengths

  • SW Michigan Street adds 378,610 sq ft, Algona 286,967 and Tacoma 143,849
  • I-House service at Pier 91, SW Michigan Street and Algona
  • LTL consolidation at the Tacoma site

Worth knowing

  • Food and other temperature-sensitive products are the focus
  • Rates via sales consultation
  • 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

Maersk Warehousing & Distribution

Importers pairing ocean freight with US warehousing

Visit maersk.com

Sumner, Fife and Lakewood hold Maersk's 7 warehouses in the area, operated by Performance Team and ranging from 24,500 to 350,000 sq ft. If you already move ocean freight with Maersk, transload, retail distribution and ecommerce orders can run from the same building.

Strengths

  • Sumner 1 has 99 dock doors and Fife has 72
  • In-house Maersk warehouse management system
  • C-TPAT certification at select facilities

Worth knowing

  • Some buildings are set aside for 1 customer; not all are shared
  • Pricing by quote
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Cold chain
  • Hazmat
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • International
  • Returns
3

Long Road Warehouse

Import brands needing port drayage, FBA prep and parcel shipping

Visit longroadwarehouse.com

In Kent, Long Road runs a 150,000+ sq ft fulfillment hub that operates 24/7 with indoor transloading; in Tacoma, 2 miles from the port, it has 200,000+ sq ft with rail access and heavy-lift gear. Smaller sellers can check the cost first, since parcel fulfillment starts at $2.00 per order for 1 to 249 orders a month.

Strengths

  • Oversize freight handled up to 100,000 lbs
  • Amazon FBA prep, plus Walmart, Etsy, eBay and Shopify connections
  • Owns both of its buildings

Worth knowing

  • Every load or BOL carries a $150 warehouse minimum charge
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Value-added services
4

UNIS

Importers and omnichannel brands moving containers into fulfillment

Visit unisco.com

UNIS lists 4 sites in the Seattle-Tacoma area: Kent on 85th Ave S, Tacoma's Steele Street, Lincoln Avenue on the Tacoma port tideflats, and Lakewood. You can hand it the container at the port, since it runs its own drayage, intermodal and spot freight.

Strengths

  • Operating since 1989 with 41 listed locations
  • Amazon, retail, wholesale and returns programs
  • Kent has its own terminal manager, customer service and operations contacts

Worth knowing

  • Rates by quote, with no minimum published
  • Some UNIS locations double as rentable warehouse space; ask what your building runs
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Subscription boxes
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • 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

Sumner is Smart Warehousing's Seattle market: 2 warehouses on Stewart Rd SE with 329,000 sq ft between them. Brands selling through retail and online get its own SWIMS software and a network that includes refrigerated and frozen space.

Strengths

  • 35+ locations and 15M+ sq ft stated across the network
  • Works with 200+ retailers on compliance, per the firm
  • Connects to Amazon, Walmart, BigCommerce, ShipStation and SPS Commerce

Worth knowing

  • Rates by quote, and no order 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

PNW Warehousing

Importers landing containers at Tacoma or Seattle for FBA and DTC

Visit pnwwarehousing.com

Fife (3011 70th Ave E) and Sumner (1565 Fryar Ave) are PNW Warehousing's 2 buildings, 350,000 sq ft combined and minutes from both ports. Growing import brands can have a container drayed, transloaded and then prepped for Amazon FBA or shipped to Shopify customers without leaving one provider.

Strengths

  • Customs bonded, FDA registered, GDP certified and food grade
  • Connects to Walmart, Etsy, eBay, Amazon and Shopify
  • WMS, TMS and LMS on its own ERP

Worth knowing

  • Pricing by quote only
  • No warehouse outside the Seattle-Tacoma port area
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • Food grade
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Bulky and heavy
7

Regal Logistics

Importers shipping to national retailers and DTC from one pool

Visit regallogistics.com

In Fife, between the Ports of Tacoma and Seattle, Regal runs a 1,000,000 sq ft hub that has been its headquarters site since 1985. If you import by container and sell to both retailers and consumers, it keeps both order types in one inventory pool on its own RegalCore platform.

Strengths

  • Container Freight Station and US Customs-bonded warehouse on site
  • Ticketing, labeling, routing-guide and ASN work for retail orders
  • Its own drayage and transloading from the ports

Worth knowing

  • Container imports and retail distribution come first; ecommerce runs alongside
  • No rates or minimums on its site
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • FTZ and bonded
  • International
8

Biagi Bros.

Beverage and food brands needing rail-served warehousing

Visit biagibros.com

Biagi Bros.' Washington warehouse is in Auburn at 4503 D Street NW: 200,000 sq ft, 29 dock doors and space for 7 rail cars. Wine, beverage and food brands get a family-owned 3PL that has operated since 1978 and drives its own trucks.

Strengths

  • Over 30 warehouses in the network
  • Temperature-controlled and food-grade rooms, plus DTC orders and pick and pack
  • SmartWay certified

Worth knowing

  • No ecommerce cart integrations listed
  • Rates by quote
  • B2B and retail
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Value-added services
  • Food grade
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
9

World Distribution Services (WDS)

Importers landing containers at Savannah, Norfolk or Tacoma

Visit worldds.net

WDS's Tacoma building at 17612 50th Ave E has 303,866 sq ft, 36 ft clear height and 48 dock doors (46 dock-high, 2 at grade), 14 miles from the Port of Tacoma. Importers get cross-docking, transloading and drayage run on site by WDS itself.

Strengths

  • B2B, B2C and ecommerce orders on the Synapse WMS
  • Shopify and EDI connections
  • Sister sites in Virginia Beach, Columbus and Savannah

Worth knowing

  • Warehousing and cross-docking come first; ecommerce is 1 line of several
  • Pricing by quote
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Drayage
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • International
  • Value-added services
10

Ryder

Omnichannel brands wanting fulfillment plus Ryder freight

Visit ryder.com

Ryder's Sumner building at 3401 W Valley Hwy E joined Ryder when it bought Whiplash, a deal announced in December 2021, and runs multiclient ecommerce and omnichannel fulfillment. Growing brands can pair it with Ryder's own fleet, freight brokerage and big-and-bulky last-mile delivery.

Strengths

  • About 320 warehouses across the US, Canada and Mexico
  • Whiplash sites also in Columbus, Salt Lake City and Jacksonville
  • C-TPAT and AEO certified

Worth knowing

  • No rates or order minimum published
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Value-added services
  • Contract packaging
  • Food grade
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Last mile
  • Bulky and heavy
  • FTZ and bonded
  • International

Shipping from Seattle: what the location gives you

South of Seattle, the Kent Valley’s 136 million sq ft of commercial and industrial space outstrips Seattle, the Eastside and the Northend put together, and it is home to about 12,000 companies.

Import freight comes in through the Northwest Seaport Alliance, which runs marine cargo for the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma as one: 3,156,598 TEUs in 2025, plus 631,230 intermodal lifts at its terminals. If your other candidate for a West Coast import warehouse is Los Angeles, compare what it costs to truck a container from each port to the building you would use.

Trucks heading for the Port of Tacoma have a new route: a 2-mile segment of the SR 167 Expressway is open, tying SR 509 and the port’s freight corridors to I-5, as announced in September 2026.

Sea-Tac moved 427,971 metric tons of air cargo in 2025. On staffing, about 353,000 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro work in trade, transportation and utilities (preliminary, August 2026), and the population keeps rising: Washington counted 8,176,300 residents on April 1, 2026, with Seattle (823,400) and Tacoma adding more than any other city.

What to ask before you sign with a Seattle 3PL

  1. Which building will my stock sit in, and how many miles is it from the Tacoma or Seattle terminals?
  2. Who picks up my container at the port, and what do you charge per container for the dray and the unload?
  3. Which parcel carriers collect from your dock each day, and what are the cutoff times?
  4. What will I pay per month at a few hundred orders, counting any per-load minimum charges?
  5. Do you prep Amazon FBA shipments in this building, or does that happen somewhere else?
  6. If most of my buyers are on the East Coast, which of your other warehouses would you pair with this one?

Seattle-Tacoma 3PL FAQ

What do Seattle fulfillment companies charge per order?

Long Road Warehouse is the one firm of the 10 with a public rate card, starting at $2.00 per order and $0.50 per item for 1 to 249 orders a month. Every other firm on the list prices by quote.

Where are the 3PL warehouses around Seattle?

Mostly south of the city, in Sumner, Tacoma, Fife, Kent, Lakewood, Auburn and Algona; Lineage is the only firm here with buildings in Seattle itself, at Pier 91 and on SW Michigan Street. Sumner holds sites from 4 of the 10 firms (PNW Warehousing, Smart Warehousing, Maersk and Ryder), and Tacoma from 4 others (Long Road, WDS, UNIS and Lineage).

Is there a Seattle 3PL with no order minimum?

No firm here advertises a zero minimum, but Long Road Warehouse's rates start at 1 to 249 orders a month, the lowest published tier on the list. Its one fixed floor is a $150 warehouse charge on each load or BOL, and the remaining 9 firms post no minimum.

Can a Seattle 3PL store frozen or chilled food?

Yes: Lineage has 4 cold stores at port locations in Seattle, Algona and Tacoma, the largest 427,136 sq ft at Pier 91. PNW Warehousing is FDA registered and food grade, and Biagi Bros. and Smart Warehousing list food-grade service in their networks.

Which Seattle 3PLs have rail access?

Long Road Warehouse's Tacoma site has rail access, Biagi Bros.' Auburn warehouse has 7 rail car spots, and Lineage has railcar sidings at Pier 91, Algona and Tacoma.

Is Seattle a good place for a fulfillment warehouse?

It suits brands that import through the Pacific Northwest: the Northwest Seaport Alliance handled 3,156,598 TEUs in 2025 and Sea-Tac 427,971 metric tons of air cargo, so goods can land and be stored in the same metro.

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