OHL Logistics

What OHL Logistics does

OHL Logistics is a privately held, for-profit US third-party logistics company headquartered in Brentwood, United States, and founded in 1951, giving it more than seven decades of continuous operating history. With over 10,000 employees, it operates at large scale within the North American 3PL market, and its longevity and headcount position it in the upper tier of US-headquartered logistics providers by workforce size and tenure.

The company's service portfolio is concentrated in four core offerings: pool distribution, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation, public warehousing, and contract warehousing. Together these capabilities indicate a blended asset-based and asset-light operating model that combines shared-truck consolidation (pool distribution), mid-volume freight movement (LTL), flexible third-party warehouse occupancy (public warehousing), and dedicated warehouse operations for individual shippers (contract warehousing). The mix addresses shippers that need either periodic or committed capacity across both transportation and storage, and it is structurally similar to the service profile of mid-to-large US 3PL operators serving retail, industrial, and consumer-goods shipper bases.

The current extraction window contains only firmographic data for OHL Logistics — founding year, employee count, location, website, profit status, and service-line descriptions. No customer-detail, revenue, headcount-trend, deal-flow, technology-stack, or recent strategic-action inputs were provided for OHL Logistics in this window. The analytical dimensions in this profile (moat, AI maturity, customer concentration, growth trajectory, expansion signals) are therefore grounded in industry-standard inferences for US 3PLs of comparable size and tenure, and should be re-run against OHL-specific operational data once available.

Name

OHL Logistics

Legal name

GEODIS

Website

https://ohl.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1951

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

OHL Logistics is a privately held US third-party logistics company founded in 1951 in Brentwood, providing pool distribution, less-than-truckload transportation, public warehousing, and contract warehousing services with over 10,000 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Third-Party Logistics Services

NAICS

Freight Transportation Arrangement (4885), Warehousing and Storage (493), General Freight Trucking (4841)

SIC

Trucking & Courier Services (No Air) (4210), Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731)

akta.pro primary industry

E-commerce Fulfillment & Omnichannel Logistics (Pick/Pack/Returns) (TLAIAAAD)

Keywords

• Third party logistics
• Less than truckload
• Pool distribution
• Contract warehousing
• Public warehousing

Headquarters

HQ city

Brentwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Transport Services: Revenue from air freight, ocean freight, ground transportation, pallet & parcel transport, and multimodal transport services
2. Freight Solutions: Revenue from customs & foreign trade compliance, supply chain management, and project logistics services
3. Warehousing & Value-Added Logistics: Revenue from warehousing services, fulfillment & omnichannel logistics, customized & value-added services, and reverse logistics
4. Capacity Solutions: Logistics capacity management and optimization services

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

OHL Logistics is a third-party logistics company that delivers outsourced supply chain execution services, including pool distribution, less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation, public warehousing, and contract warehousing. The firm provides physical logistics capacity and operations on behalf of its business customers across the United States.

Product overview

The company operates as a platform-plus-modules logistics solution offering three main service categories: Transport Services (Air Freight, Ocean Freight, Ground Transportation, Pallet & Parcel Transport, Multimodal Transport, Transportation Management Solutions, and Capacity Solutions), Freight Solutions (Customs & Foreign Trade, Supply Chain Management, and Project Logistics), and Warehousing & Value-Added Logistics (Warehousing Services, Fulfillment & Omnichannel Logistics, Customized & Value-Added Services, and Reverse Logistics). The platform also includes industry-specific vertical solutions covering Aerospace & Defense, Automotive & Mobility, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Healthcare, High Tech, Industrial, Luxury, and Retail sectors. Supporting tools include Track & Trace for shipment visibility and an Emissions Calculator for carbon tracking.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pool Distribution

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.5% of US reached in two days
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Lagardère Travel RetailcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026GEODIS expanded its partnership with Lagardère Travel Retail by taking over logistics operations for new stores located at London Heathrow Airport and supporting international store expansions.
• Eric GerbicoreOthers · 11 June 2026Eric Gerbi appointed as Executive Vice President of GEODIS Global Freight Forwarding, strengthening the management board with experienced logistics leadership.

Scale indicators2 records

Broad incumbents

• DHL Supply Chain: Largest global contract logistics provider under DHL Group, offering warehousing, distribution, and value-added services for enterprise customers. Overlaps with OHL on multi-site contract warehousing and integrated distribution but operates at vastly greater global scale.
• Kuehne+Nagel: Global freight forwarding and contract logistics leader with strong air/ocean forwarding plus overland and warehousing services. Comparable to OHL on multi-service 3PL positioning and global enterprise customers, though at much larger scale and with stronger forwarding roots.

Direct peers

• C.H. Robinson: Major North American 3PL and freight broker with truckload, LTL, intermodal, and supply chain services including managed transportation and warehousing. Comparable to OHL in LTL/brokerage intensity and multi-service 3PL positioning for shippers.
• NFI Industries: Family-owned US integrated supply chain solutions provider with dedicated transportation, warehousing, and brokerage. Highly comparable to OHL in multi-service 3PL model, asset-based + asset-light mix, and North American enterprise customer focus.
• J.B. Hunt Transport Services (ICS): US surface transportation, intermodal, dedicated, and integrated capacity solutions provider. Comparable to OHL on multi-mode transport, dedicated capacity, and supply chain services for large enterprise customers.
• Ryder Supply Chain Solutions: Dedicated transportation, warehousing, and supply chain solutions division of Ryder System. Comparable to OHL on dedicated fleet outsourcing, contract warehousing, and end-to-end distribution services for large shippers.
• GEODIS: Global multi-service 3PL offering transport, freight forwarding, contract logistics, and warehousing across multiple verticals. Direct overlap with OHL on integrated contract logistics, warehousing, and multi-mode transport services for enterprise customers.
• XPO (GXO Logistics spin-off): Pure-play contract logistics and warehousing specialist serving large enterprise customers in North America and Europe. Closely comparable to OHL on dedicated and shared warehousing, omnichannel fulfillment, and integrated distribution services.
• Hub Group: US asset-based intermodal and logistics provider with brokerage, dedicated, and final-mile services. Overlaps with OHL on multi-mode transport services and supply chain solutions for enterprise shippers.

Emerging players

• Echo Global Logistics: Technology-enabled US freight brokerage and managed transportation provider with truckload, LTL, and intermodal. Comparable to OHL on the asset-light 3PL and freight arrangement side, particularly with shippers needing brokerage-driven capacity solutions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ohltweets
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/GeodisCorporate
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/geodis
• Instagraminstagram.com/geodisgroup
• Facebookfacebook.com/ohlsupplychain

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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