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Top 3PLs in Tennessee: 10 Fulfillment Companies Compared

Every company here runs at least one Tennessee warehouse, 10 in all, spread across Memphis, the Nashville suburbs, Chattanooga, Cookeville, Sweetwater and Elizabethton, and we confirmed each location on the company's own website. Weigh them on what they run in the state, how far their network reaches, order minimums, pricing model and services, in ranked order, with each company's facts in the comparison table and on its card.

  • 10 companies ranked
  • 15 warehouses in Tennessee between them
  • Updated September 2026

By the research desk · How we rank

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Top 3PLs in Tennessee at a glance

  1. 1Averitt ExpressShippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network
  2. 2Barrett Distribution CentersOmnichannel brands needing retail compliance and multi-site space
  3. 3Red Stag FulfillmentBrands shipping products over 10 lbs by parcel and pallet
  4. 4AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale
  5. 5NovEx Supply ChainSupplement and personal care brands needing FDA-registered storage
  6. 6Maersk Warehousing & DistributionImporters pairing ocean freight with US warehousing
  7. 7FulexSmall and mid-size DTC brands wanting a San Diego node in a network
  8. 8Symbia LogisticsPublishers and CPG brands wanting a Nashville cGMP fulfillment center
  9. 9FidelitoneWellness and consumer brands needing fulfillment and bulky delivery
  10. 10Interstate WarehousingFrozen and refrigerated food brands shipping to retail and foodservice

Compare Tennessee 3PLs side by side

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

#CompanyBest forIn TennesseeNetworkOrder minimumPricing
1Averitt ExpressShippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network3 warehouses58 totalNot publishedCustom quote
2Barrett Distribution CentersOmnichannel brands needing retail compliance and multi-site space2 warehouses25 totalNot publishedCustom quote
3Red Stag FulfillmentBrands shipping products over 10 lbs by parcel and pallet1 warehouse2 totalNot publishedCustom quote
4AmericoldFood brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale2 warehouses192 totalNot publishedCustom quote
5NovEx Supply ChainSupplement and personal care brands needing FDA-registered storage1 warehouse2 totalNo minimumCustom quote
6Maersk Warehousing & DistributionImporters pairing ocean freight with US warehousing1 warehouse114 totalNot publishedCustom quote
7FulexSmall and mid-size DTC brands wanting a San Diego node in a network1 warehouse5 totalNot publishedCustom quote
8Symbia LogisticsPublishers and CPG brands wanting a Nashville cGMP fulfillment center1 warehouse5 totalNot publishedCustom quote
9FidelitoneWellness and consumer brands needing fulfillment and bulky delivery2 warehouses8 totalNot publishedCustom quote
10Interstate WarehousingFrozen and refrigerated food brands shipping to retail and foodservice1 warehouse8 totalNot publishedCustom quote

The 10 best 3PL companies in Tennessee

1

Averitt Express

Shippers wanting warehousing tied to an LTL and truckload network

Visit averitt.com

Averitt is a Tennessee company, based in Cookeville, and its biggest warehouse in the state is the 290,000 sq ft shared center in Lebanon, outside Nashville, with smaller space in Chattanooga (16,000 sq ft) and Cookeville (10,000 sq ft). If you need seasonal room without a contract and already move freight by LTL or truckload, you can keep both with one company.

Strengths

  • Pay for the space and the time you use
  • Shopify orders handled through Extensiv
  • Founded in 1971; 58 warehousing locations stated

Worth knowing

  • No warehouses listed in the West or the Northeast
  • Priced per 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
2

Barrett Distribution Centers

Omnichannel brands needing retail compliance and multi-site space

Visit barrettdistribution.com

Barrett's Tennessee space is in Memphis: a 650,000 sq ft public warehouse on Hickory Hill Road with rail service from BNSF, CN and UP and food-grade certification, and a 377,000 sq ft building on Citation Drive. If you ship to big-box retailers and direct to shoppers from the same stock, its retail compliance team works to each retailer's routing guide.

Strengths

  • 120,000 sq ft of air-conditioned space at Hickory Hill Road
  • Family-owned, founded in 1941
  • FBA prep, kitting and returns offered

Worth knowing

  • Pricing and minimums by quote
  • Some of its buildings serve one client only
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Food grade
  • Hazmat
  • FTZ and bonded
  • Value-added services
3

Red Stag Fulfillment

Brands shipping products over 10 lbs by parcel and pallet

Visit redstagfulfillment.com

Red Stag, headquartered in Knoxville, runs its flagship 700,000 sq ft fulfillment center in Sweetwater, where I-75 meets I-40, receiving by rail and truck and shipping by parcel and pallet. If your products are heavy or awkward, bigger than a toaster or over 10 lbs, that is the work it is set up for, and it publishes guarantees to back it.

Strengths

  • Lost or damaged items reimbursed at cost under its zero-shrinkage guarantee
  • A credit for each late parcel if it misses its shipping SLA
  • Second fulfillment center of 450,000 sq ft in Salt Lake City

Worth knowing

  • Only 2 fulfillment centers in its network
  • Quote form asks for weight, volumes and SKU count; no rate card
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Drayage
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Value-added services
4

Americold

Food brands needing frozen, chilled or ambient storage at scale

Visit americold.com

Americold's two Tennessee cold stores are both near Nashville: Lebanon runs from ambient to deep freeze with rail service and blast freezing, and Murfreesboro holds cooler and freezer stock. If you ship food to retailers or food service, you get space in a network of 192 US and Canada warehouses, over 90% of them SQF certified.

Strengths

  • USDA inspection on site at many facilities
  • DTC cold-chain orders shipped from 5 US sites
  • Export services at both Tennessee sites

Worth knowing

  • Set up for food and temperature-sensitive products
  • No building sizes or rates published
  • 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
5

NovEx Supply Chain

Supplement and personal care brands needing FDA-registered storage

Visit novexit.com

NovEx's Memphis hub covers 200,000+ sq ft with temperature-controlled, FDA-registered storage and is one of two sites, with Salt Lake City the other. If you sell supplements, personal care products or medical devices, you get lot tracking and first-expiry, first-out rotation, and you can start with no order minimum.

Strengths

  • Short-term agreements, no long-term contract
  • B2B, retail EDI and international orders
  • Bulky and heavy items handled

Worth knowing

  • Memphis street address not on its website
  • Pricing by quote
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Cross-dock and transload
  • International
  • Value-added services
6

Maersk Warehousing & Distribution

Importers pairing ocean freight with US warehousing

Visit maersk.com

Maersk's Tennessee warehouse is the 330,253 sq ft Distriplex Drive building in Memphis with 68 dock doors, and its site list adds 18,000 sq ft on Winbrook Drive and 35,520 sq ft in La Vergne outside Nashville. If you import by ocean, you can have containers transloaded and deconsolidated and orders shipped to stores and shoppers from the same building.

Strengths

  • 7,400 sq ft of dangerous goods storage in Memphis
  • In-house warehouse management system
  • C-TPAT certified at select facilities

Worth knowing

  • Services at La Vergne not listed
  • Some buildings serve a single customer
  • 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
7

Fulex

Small and mid-size DTC brands wanting a San Diego node in a network

Visit fulex.com

Fulex's Tennessee site is a fulfillment center at 2700 Riverside Dr in Chattanooga, part of a 5-site network with buildings in California, Michigan, Texas and Delaware. If you run a small or mid-size DTC brand in apparel, pet or beauty and wellness, it quotes an all-inclusive price built from your order volume, SKUs, storage and shipping zones.

Strengths

  • Retail connections to Home Depot, Dollar Tree, Costco and Target.com
  • Intertek Total Quality Assured; Amazon Solution Provider Network member
  • Subscription boxes and kitting

Worth knowing

  • Chattanooga square footage not published
  • No public rate card
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Subscription boxes
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Food grade
8

Symbia Logistics

Publishers and CPG brands wanting a Nashville cGMP fulfillment center

Visit symbia.com

Symbia's Tennessee building is the Antioch Fulfillment Center at 5584 Mt View Rd, Nashville: 110,000 sq ft, Class A, cGMP certified, with room to double. Publishers, education distributors and small-parcel shippers are the clients it names, and CPG and health and beauty brands get cGMP handling there.

Strengths

  • Sister buildings in Denver, Chicago, Houston and Reno
  • Connects to Shopify Plus, BigCommerce and Square
  • Kitting and returns

Worth knowing

  • Aimed at publishing and small-parcel work
  • Custom quotes only
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Amazon FBA prep
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Returns
  • Food grade
  • Value-added services
9

Fidelitone

Wellness and consumer brands needing fulfillment and bulky delivery

Visit fidelitone.com

Fidelitone has two Tennessee fulfillment centers shared among clients: 6200 E. Division St in Lebanon, which it lists as its Nashville site, and 100 Fidelitone Way in Elizabethton. If you sell bulky products, the same company can deliver them to the customer's front step, threshold or room of choice, or with white glove service.

Strengths

  • In business since 1929
  • POP display pack-out and assembly
  • 10 last mile delivery hubs

Worth knowing

  • Site sizes not published
  • Pricing through a consultation form
  • DTC ecommerce
  • B2B and retail
  • Retail EDI compliance
  • Kitting and assembly
  • Contract packaging
  • Returns
  • LTL and FTL freight
  • Last mile
  • Bulky and heavy
  • Value-added services
10

Interstate Warehousing

Frozen and refrigerated food brands shipping to retail and foodservice

Visit tippmanngroup.com

Interstate's Tennessee building is 507,000 sq ft of SQF-certified cold storage at 2125 Joe B. Jackson Parkway in Murfreesboro, holding 21.2 million cubic feet and 68,000 pallets behind 83 dock doors. If you sell frozen or chilled food to grocers or foodservice, its consolidation programs combine your product with other suppliers' loads.

Strengths

  • Located on I-24
  • Expanded in 2011, 2015 and 2019 after opening in 2006
  • Part of the family-owned Tippmann Group

Worth knowing

  • No parcel ecommerce service described
  • Rates by quote
  • Cold chain
  • Food grade
  • B2B and retail

Shipping from Tennessee: what the location gives you

If your goods come from Asia, a Tennessee warehouse can take them through the East Coast: Georgia Tech research published by the Georgia Ports Authority in April 2026 found the Port of Savannah saves shippers more than $1,000 per container to Memphis and Nashville compared with West Coast gateways. From there, you ship over more than 1,200 miles of interstate in the state, with 67% of the US population within a one-day truck drive.

Pick Memphis and you add air and river freight: its airport placed 3rd in the US for all-cargo landed weight in 2025, with about 16.3 billion lbs, and the International Port of Memphis is the sixth-largest inland port in the country and the second-largest on the shallow-draft Mississippi. Around Nashville, you get the road junction instead, where I-24, I-40 and I-65 converge, one of six US cities with three major interstates meeting, plus rail, since CSX has two major rail yards and an intermodal terminal in the city.

For staffing, more than 332,600 Tennesseans work in distribution and logistics at more than 17,200 companies, and the sector’s jobs have grown 21% since 2019. The state is second in the US for employment concentration in the sector, and about 684,600 people work in trade, transportation and utilities across Tennessee (August 2026, preliminary).

What to ask before you sign with a Tennessee 3PL

  1. Should my stock sit in Memphis, the Nashville area or East Tennessee, given where my customers are?
  2. If my containers land at Savannah, how do they get to your building?
  3. What monthly volume do you expect from me in the first year?
  4. Which of my sales channels connect to your system without custom work?
  5. Can I use short-term or seasonal space before committing?
  6. Can I visit the building before I sign?

Tennessee 3PL FAQ

What does a Tennessee fulfillment company charge?

You will be quoted: all 10 firms here price per account instead of posting rates. Fulex, for example, builds an all-inclusive price from order volume, SKU complexity, storage, pick and pack, shipping zones and add-on services.

Can a small brand use a Tennessee 3PL?

Yes: none of the 10 publishes an order minimum, and NovEx Supply Chain states it has no order minimums, fixed fees or long-term contracts. Averitt Express rents short-term and seasonal space with no contract.

Where in Tennessee are the 3PL warehouses?

Mostly around Memphis and Nashville: 3 of the 10 have Memphis buildings and 5 have space in the Nashville area, in Lebanon, Murfreesboro or Antioch. Outside those two metros, Red Stag Fulfillment is in Sweetwater, Fulex and Averitt Express are in Chattanooga, Fidelitone is in Elizabethton and Averitt also has space in Cookeville.

Which Tennessee fulfillment companies connect to Shopify?

8 of the 10 name a Shopify integration: Barrett Distribution Centers, Averitt Express, Red Stag Fulfillment, Fidelitone, Americold, NovEx Supply Chain, Symbia Logistics and Fulex.

Which Tennessee 3PLs are food-grade?

6 of the 10 list food-grade services: Barrett Distribution Centers, Averitt Express, Interstate Warehousing, Americold, Symbia Logistics and Fulex. In Tennessee itself, Barrett's Hickory Hill Road building in Memphis is FDA and AIB certified, and Interstate's Murfreesboro cold store is SQF certified.

Which Tennessee 3PLs offer last mile or white glove delivery?

2 of the 10 list last mile delivery: Fidelitone, with white glove, room of choice, threshold and front step service, and Averitt Express.

3PL lists in Tennessee and nearby