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Top 3PLs in Tampa: 10 Fulfillment Companies Compared

Every company on this page keeps a warehouse in the Tampa Bay area, 10 in all, and we confirmed each location on the company's own website; their buildings sit in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Plant City, Lakeland, Auburndale and Bartow. You can weigh them in ranked order on their local buildings, how far their network reaches, their minimums, how they price and which services they run, with every company's facts laid out in the table and on its card.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 19 warehouses in Tampa between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the research desk · How we rank

Illustration: warehouse aisle lined with tall pallet racking

Top 3PLs in Tampa at a glance

  1. 1Saddle Creek Logistics ServicesRetailers and brands needing large multi-state DCs plus trucking
  2. 2Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing
  3. 3AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale
  4. 4LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports
  5. 5eWorld FulfillmentDTC and subscription brands wanting a Tampa Bay flagship plus 3 more sites
  6. 6NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile
  7. 7Warehousing EtcImporters and brands needing flexible pallet storage in Tampa
  8. 8Mako Freight & LogisticsRetail and CPG brands needing large Orlando warehouse capacity
  9. 9Cold-Link LogisticsFood brands needing frozen, chilled or dry storage near Orlando
  10. 10Star Distribution SystemsCPG and retail brands distributing across Florida by truck

Compare Tampa 3PLs side by side

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

#CompanyBest forIn TampaNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1Saddle Creek Logistics ServicesRetailers and brands needing large multi-state DCs plus trucking2 warehouses46 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2Buske LogisticsFood, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing3 warehouses44 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale3 warehouses192 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4LineageFood companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports2 warehouses480 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5eWorld FulfillmentDTC and subscription brands wanting a Tampa Bay flagship plus 3 more sites1 warehouse4 totalNot publishedCustom quote
6NXTPoint LogisticsSoutheast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile1 warehouse30 totalNot publishedCustom quote
7Warehousing EtcImporters and brands needing flexible pallet storage in Tampa2 warehouses2 totalNot publishedCustom quote
8Mako Freight & LogisticsRetail and CPG brands needing large Orlando warehouse capacity1 warehouse11 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9Cold-Link LogisticsFood brands needing frozen, chilled or dry storage near Orlando2 warehouses7 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10Star Distribution SystemsCPG and retail brands distributing across Florida by truck2 warehouses2 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in Tampa

1

Saddle Creek Logistics Services

Retailers and brands needing large multi-state DCs plus trucking

Visit sclogistics.com

Saddle Creek is headquartered in Lakeland, where its campus runs to about 2.3 million sq ft with 856 truck doors, food-grade space and rail service; its Auburndale campus adds 812,000 sq ft and 173 truck doors. You can take shared or dedicated space and move freight on the company's own trucks.

Strengths

  • Founded in 1966
  • Cross-docking at the Lakeland campus
  • Omnichannel fulfillment, subscription boxes and returns

Worth knowing

  • Rates by quote
  • Its site lists no Shopify or marketplace connections
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Subscription boxes
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Value-added services
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
2

Buske Logistics

Food, beverage and CPG shippers needing food-grade warehousing

Visit buske.com

Buske runs three buildings on Harney Rd in Tampa, at numbers 7918, 7926 and 7932, with 477,400 sq ft between them and 26 dock doors, 4 of them drive-ins. Food and beverage brands can use the food-grade audited space, and you choose between contract and public storage.

Strengths

  • In business since 1923, based in Edwardsville, Illinois
  • Co-packing and kitting next to storage
  • Amazon FBA prep

Worth knowing

  • 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

Americold

Food brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale

Visit americold.com

Americold's cold storage here is three sites: Maple Lane in Tampa, with cooler and freezer rooms, a freezer on N Frontage Rd in Plant City, and a cooler and freezer building in Bartow. If your frozen food moves by rail, Plant City and Bartow both have rail service, and Plant City adds blast freezing and export handling.

Strengths

  • Founded in 1903, based in Atlanta
  • Amazon, Shopify and EDI connections
  • USDA inspection on site at many of its facilities

Worth knowing

  • No square footage on its site pages
  • Quote 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

Lineage

Food companies needing frozen or chilled space near ports

Visit onelineage.com

Lineage has two public cold storage warehouses in Lakeland: County Line Rd at 114,474 sq ft and Knights Station Rd at 111,217 sq ft. Food brands can store frozen or chilled pallets there and have cases picked or cross-docked.

Strengths

  • SQF, BRCGS and GFSI certifications across its network
  • Founded in 2008, based in Novi, Michigan
  • Direct-to-consumer cold-chain fulfillment elsewhere in its network

Worth knowing

  • Focused on food and temperature-sensitive goods
  • Rates by quote
  • 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
5

eWorld Fulfillment

DTC and subscription brands wanting a Tampa Bay flagship plus 3 more sites

Visit eworldfulfillment.com

eWorld is headquartered in St. Petersburg, where its fulfillment center at 2260 118th Ave N covers 80,000 sq ft, all of it climate-controlled, with multiple docks. If you run a DTC or subscription brand, you can start here and add its Carrollton, Carlstadt or Sparks sites later.

Strengths

  • 99.9% order accuracy and turnaround within 24 hours, by its own figures
  • Connects to Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Magento
  • FBA prep, kitting and returns

Worth knowing

  • Rates by quote
  • Building sizes published for St. Petersburg only
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Subscription boxes
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • International
  • Value-added services
6

NXTPoint Logistics

Southeast and Texas warehousing plus white-glove final mile

Visit nxtpointlogistics.com

NXTPoint, a Jacksonville company, has 33 dock doors and a 36 ft clear height at its Tampa warehouse, 194,000 sq ft of Class A space on Suddath Park St. The building is set up for ecommerce and other high-touch orders, and bulky-goods sellers can book white-glove delivery to the customer's room of choice.

Strengths

  • Part of The Suddath Companies
  • 250+ partner facilities on top of 30+ owned ones
  • Retail EDI, kitting and returns

Worth knowing

  • No published rates or minimum
  • 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
7

Warehousing Etc

Importers and brands needing flexible pallet storage in Tampa

Visit warehousingetc.com

Twin brothers Ryan and Tyler Key founded Warehousing Etc in 2020 and opened its first Tampa warehouse in 2021; the main site is at 3719 Corporex Park Dr, and a second is in East Tampa. If you import, the team can unload your containers, transload or restack pallets and store them month to month.

Strengths

  • Takes pallets up to 8 ft and 5,000 lbs
  • Pick and pack with Shopify and WooCommerce feeds
  • FBA prep and cross-docking

Worth knowing

  • No climate control or hazmat storage
  • Square footage not published
  • B2B and retail
  • DTC ecommerce
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Value-added services
8

Mako Freight & Logistics

Retail and CPG brands needing large Orlando warehouse capacity

Visit makofreight.com

Mako's Lakeland warehouse, 196,312 sq ft on Firstpark Blvd, handles storage, cross-docking, kitting and pick and pack. You can run your stock on Mako's Extensiv WMS or your own system, and add space at the company's Orlando and Jacksonville sites as Florida orders grow.

Strengths

  • Headquartered in Orlando
  • Retail replenishment and final-mile delivery
  • IKEA, Samsung and Sherwin-Williams named as clients

Worth knowing

  • Its site lists no ecommerce integrations
  • Priced by quote
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Last mile
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Value-added services
10

Star Distribution Systems

CPG and retail brands distributing across Florida by truck

Visit stardistribution.us

Star Distribution Systems works out of Plant City and Lakeland, with over 1.5 million sq ft of food-grade and general commodity space and its own trucks making 800+ deliveries a day around Florida. If you sell to Florida retailers, freight that reaches Star's dock before 7 pm is guaranteed delivery the next day.

Strengths

  • In business since 1931, per its site
  • Club packs, kitting and floor-ready displays
  • LTL pool distribution

Worth knowing

  • No ecommerce or DTC service listed
  • Warehouses in Florida only
  • B2B and retail
  • Food grade
  • Contract packaging
  • Kitting and assembly
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • Value-added services

Shipping from Tampa: what the location gives you

More than 8 million people live in the Tampa and Orlando I-4 region, and from Polk County, companies can reach nearly 20 million people with same-day delivery. A warehouse in Orlando draws on the same I-4 market; what a Tampa warehouse adds is a seaport in the metro.

Of all the ports in Florida, Port Tampa Bay is the largest by tonnage and by land area, handling 33 million tons of cargo a year. In containers, 262,803 TEUs crossed its public berths in fiscal 2025, 2% more than in fiscal 2024. Trucks leave from the crossroads of I-4 and I-75, and the Selmon Expressway truck ramp is a mile from the port gate.

For rail freight, Winter Haven’s Intermodal Logistics Center puts CSX service in Polk County, beside I-4, State Road 60 and U.S. 27. For air, FedEx, UPS, Atlas Air and ABX Airways are among the all-cargo carriers at Tampa International Airport, and passenger airlines carry cargo there too.

For staffing, about 277,400 jobs in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro are in trade, transportation and utilities, per preliminary BLS data for August 2026.

What to ask before you sign with a Tampa 3PL

  1. Can I tour the building my inventory would sit in before I sign?
  2. How many days does ground shipping take from your warehouse to the regions where most of my customers live?
  3. What do receiving, storage and each order cost, and is there a monthly minimum?
  4. If my goods arrive by container, who unloads it and what does that cost?
  5. Is the building climate-controlled for products that cannot sit in summer heat?
  6. Which of my sales channels, such as Shopify or Amazon, already connect to your system?

Tampa 3PL FAQ

What do Tampa fulfillment companies charge?

Every one of the 10 prices by quote, with no rates on its website. Ask each for receiving, storage and per-order fees on the same order profile so the quotes compare.

Do Tampa 3PLs have order minimums?

None of the 10 publishes an order minimum. Warehousing Etc also sells monthly storage with no long-term storage contract.

Can a Tampa warehouse deliver across Florida the next day?

For store and wholesale freight, yes: Star Distribution Systems guarantees next-day delivery for freight at its dock before 7 pm, using its own fleet of trucks that make 800+ deliveries a day across Florida.

Are there family-owned or local 3PLs in Tampa?

Yes: Warehousing Etc is family-owned and based in Tampa. eWorld Fulfillment (St. Petersburg), Star Distribution Systems (Plant City) and Saddle Creek Logistics Services (Lakeland) also have their headquarters in the metro.

Which Tampa 3PLs have food-grade space?

4 of the 10 publish food-grade space at their Tampa-area buildings: Buske Logistics on Harney Rd, Cold-Link Logistics on East 3rd Ave, Saddle Creek Logistics Services in Lakeland and Star Distribution Systems in Plant City and Lakeland.

Which Tampa 3PLs suit ecommerce brands?

eWorld Fulfillment and NXTPoint Logistics describe their local buildings as ecommerce sites: eWorld's 80,000 sq ft St. Petersburg center connects to Shopify, Amazon, Etsy and 3 more platforms, and NXTPoint's Tampa warehouse is set up for ecommerce and other high-touch orders.

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