Best Freight Forwarders Companies in Australia
The 302 best Freight Forwarders companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Qube.
Tracking the top Freight Forwarders companies in Australia by disclosed equity funding, this directory covers 302 operators with a combined $1.1B raised, and almost all of that sits with one name. Qube accounts for the full $1.1B. Everyone else, CargoMaster at $4M included, is working with a fraction of that. So the funding picture is concentrated, but the competitive picture isn't, and that gap tells you something useful about how this sector actually operates down here.
The global freight forwarding market sat at roughly $192.5B in 2021 and is forecast to reach $285.1B by 2031 at a 4.3% CAGR, with e-commerce and digital transformation doing most of the pulling. Freight delivery apps are reflecting that momentum directly, with median install growth running around 17% year-on-year across 18 tracked apps. Stricter environmental regulations are adding pressure on operators to modernise faster than they'd probably like. If you're benchmarking potential partners or suppliers, the investor base here, names like Allegro Funds, Argo Investments and AMCIL, signals where the institutional confidence actually lands. Hot themes right now: container freight rates, port-centric logistics, transpacific shipping. The sector's moving.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
Our analysis of 100 Freight Forwarders companies
$9.9b in tracked funding; 81% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Freight Forwarders companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founded | Employees | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAW GLOBAL LOGISTICS Provider of sea, air & land freight, logistic, and coastal shipping services | — | Unfunded | 1983 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 50M | — |
| 2 | ABC Transport Provider of bus transportation services for remote communities | — | Unfunded | 1988 | — | PHPAlmaLinuxOpenSSL+6 | Top 10M | — |
| 3 | ACFS Provider of road freight logistic, warehousing, and other services | — | Unfunded | 2005 | 388 | PythonSalesforceTailwind CSS+7 | Top 5M | — |
| 4 | Allports Provider of freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and logistics management solutions | — | Unfunded | 1992 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | AM Logistics Logistics and transportation solutions provider that offers a range of services including warehousing… | — | Unfunded | 2010 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+10 | Top 50M | — |
| 6 | Aussiefast Provider of road freight services | — | Unfunded | 1987 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 10M | — |
| 7 | Australian Transport and Logistics Provider of multi-modal freight forwarding services | — | Unfunded | 1999 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | CargoMaster Provider of air and ocean freight forwarding services | $4M | Seed | 2002 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+27 | Top 10M | — |
Top 5 Freight Forwarders companies in Australia
#1
Acquired · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2004 · 1001 employees$1.1Braised▾
Qube Ports & Bulk provides a diverse range of integrated port services, bulk material handling and bulk haulage services. Offers logistics services, management and expertise extending from port and facility development, vessel management, warehousing and distribution, stevedoring services for general cargo and dry bulk commodities for both import and export supply chains. Qube acquired majority ownership of P&O Trans Australia in April 2011.
- Jun 2017Post IPO$26.9M
- Jun 2017Post IPO$240M
- Mar 2016Post IPO$230.7M
- Feb 2015Conventional Debt$605.1M
#2
Seed · Mosman, New South Wales · founded 2002$3.9Mraised▾
Provider of air and ocean freight forwarding services
- Oct 2013Seed$3M
- Jun 2012Seed$910K
#3
Seed · Regents Park, New South Wales · founded 2002—raised▾
Provider of order fulfillment services intended to ensure speedy delivery of goods from retailers to consumers. The company provides payment processing gateway, packaging, assembly, third-party logistics, storage, pick & pack, distribution, and real-time online reporting, enabling clients to deliver the goods easily.
- Mar 2022Seed—
#4
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2010—raised▾
Seabridge Global Logistics is a globally focused logistics provider based in Australia. They offer comprehensive air and sea freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and other logistics services. They have offices in Australia, New Zealand, and China, and aim to help businesses grow by providing efficient and reliable logistics solutions.
- Jul 2021Seed—
#5
Public · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 1875 · 2798 employees—raised▾
Brambles is a supply-chain logistics company operating in more than 50 countries, primarily through its CHEP and IFCO brands. The group specializes in the pooling of unit-load equipment and associated services, focusing on the outsourced management of returnable pallets, crates, and containers across multiple industry supply chains such as consumer goods, dry grocery, fresh food, retail, and general manufacturing. The group also operates specialist container logistics businesses serving the automotive, aerospace and oil and gas sectors. The company employs more than 14,000 people and owns approximately 500 million pallets, crates and containers through a network of more than 850 service centers. In 2020, the company recorded annual revenues of $4.9 B and a net profit of $458 M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Freight Forwarders coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Logistics & Supply Chain Tech is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Logistics & Supply Chain Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 67 Australia-affiliated papers.
- Monash University6
- RMIT University6
- Department of Commerce6
- UNSW Sydney4
- Deakin University4
- Fleet management4
- Resilience (materials science)2
- Carbon footprint2
- Supply chain optimization2
- Optimization problem2
- Fleet management4→7
- Supply chain optimization2→4
- Fleet management9
- Global Positioning System3
- Transport engineering3
- Supply chain management3
- SAFER3
Where logistics supply chain is researched across Australia
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.