Transnautica Global Logistics, Sa

What Transnautica Global Logistics, Sa does

Transnautica Global Logistics, Sa is a privately held Portuguese logistics company headquartered in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, founded in 1960. The company provides multimodal freight forwarding and contract logistics services, spanning road, sea, and air transport, complemented by ADR (dangerous goods) road transport and contract logistics operations. Its stated service scope suggests it serves shippers requiring cross-mode coordination, including regulated hazardous materials flows, with a customer base anchored in the Iberian market given its single Portuguese operating base.

The company complements its physical freight operations with a digital client portal, providing shippers an electronic interface for managing bookings, documentation, or shipment visibility. No further details about the portal's feature set, integration capabilities, or underlying technology stack are disclosed in the source material. The company remains privately held, with no disclosed parent, subsidiaries, funding history, ownership structure, or financial performance in the input data.

The business model is consistent with a traditional asset-light freight forwarder: revenue is generated through freight margins on booked transport, contract logistics fees for warehousing or dedicated operations, and ADR-specialized handling premiums. Customer segmentation, pricing structure, headcount, and revenue mix are not disclosed in the source data, which limits further analytical precision. The website (transnautica.pt) was inaccessible during data capture, returning only a verification/loading screen.

Name

Transnautica Global Logistics, Sa

Legal name

Transnautica Global Logistics, Sa

Website

https://transnautica.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Transnautica Global Logistics, Sa is a privately held Portuguese freight forwarder founded in 1960, headquartered in Vila Nova de Gaia, offering road, sea, and air freight, contract logistics, ADR dangerous goods transport, and a digital client portal to shippers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Freight Forwarding & Logistics Services

NAICS

Freight Transportation Arrangement (4885)

SIC

Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731)

akta.pro primary industry

Cross-Border Trucking & Border Transfer (Linehaul, Transloading) (TLACACAC)

Keywords

• Road freight forwarding
• Sea freight forwarding
• Air freight forwarding
• Contract logistics
• ADR dangerous goods transport

Headquarters

HQ city

Vila Nova De Gaia

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Core offering

Transnautica Global Logistics provides multi-modal freight forwarding services covering road, sea, and air transport, supplemented by contract logistics and ADR-compliant (dangerous goods by road) transport. The company offers a digital client portal for managing shipments and engagements, targeting business customers with end-to-end supply chain movement needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Road Freight Road-based freight forwarding service moving cargo overland for business clients across regional and European lanes.
• Sea Freight Ocean freight forwarding service for full container loads (FCL), less-than-container loads (LCL), and other maritime cargo arrangements.
• Air Freight Time-sensitive air cargo forwarding service for business shippers requiring expedited international transport.
• Contract Logistics Outsourced contract logistics covering warehousing and dedicated distribution operations for business customers under multi-month/annual agreements.
• ADR Transport Road transport of dangerous goods compliant with the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), serving industrial and chemical-sector shippers.
• Digital Client Portal Online portal that allows business clients to manage freight bookings, track shipments, and access logistics documentation for the company's multi-modal services.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Geodis: French-headquartered global freight forwarder offering road, air, and sea freight forwarding alongside contract logistics. Overlaps Transnautica's full multi-modal service set with comparable European anchor.
• Hellmann Worldwide Logistics: German-headquartered family-owned freight forwarder with road, sea, and air capabilities and contract logistics, including dangerous goods handling. Closely matches Transnautica's multi-modal forwarding profile as a mid-sized European operator.
• CEVA Logistics: Global logistics provider offering multi-modal freight forwarding and contract logistics, including road freight and specialized cargo handling. Comparable in functional scope to Transnautica across road, sea, and air.

Broad incumbents

• DB Schenker: European-headquartered freight forwarder and contract logistics provider covering road, air, and ocean. Directly comparable in service scope, though historically a much larger incumbent with global infrastructure.
• DHL Global Forwarding: Global freight forwarding arm of Deutsche Post DHL covering air, ocean, and road freight plus contract logistics. Comparable in service scope to Transnautica but with far larger network, customer book, and technology stack.
• Agility Logistics: Global logistics provider with freight forwarding and contract logistics across road, sea, and air. Comparable multi-modal scope to Transnautica, though operating at significantly larger scale across emerging markets.
• DACHSER: European road-transport and contract logistics provider with extensive overland network. Overlaps the road freight and contract logistics portions of Transnautica's offering, though heavier on road than multi-modal.
• Yusen Logistics: Japanese-headquartered global logistics provider with multi-modal freight forwarding and contract logistics. Overlaps Transnautica's road/sea/air forwarding profile with greater global reach.
• Kuehne+Nagel: One of the world's largest freight forwarders with full road, sea, and air capabilities plus contract logistics. Directly overlaps Transnautica's multi-modal service set, though at materially greater scale and global reach.
• DSV A/S: European-anchored freight forwarder offering road, air, sea, and contract logistics. Operates the same multi-modal mix as Transnautica, with comparable dangerous goods capability, but at substantially greater scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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