Best Transportation and Logistics Companies in New Zealand
The 101 best Transportation and Logistics companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals.
New Zealand's Transportation and Logistics sector is tracked here across 101 companies, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. No unicorns. No disclosed funding on record. What you're looking at is an industry that runs on operational scale, not venture capital spectacle.
That said, the names carry real weight. Mainfreight and Tourism Holdings sit at the top of our directory, and anyone who's followed either knows the revenue story behind them dwarfs anything a funding round would signal. App-layer momentum tells a parallel story: median install growth across 691 logistics and transportation apps is running at roughly +20% year-on-year, which I'd read as demand pull, not hype. And yet coverage of the sector stays flat, with the loudest search themes clustering around truck accidents and transport crashes rather than growth narratives. So the commercial engine keeps turning while the headlines chase the incidents. Investors like CPE Capital and ASP Ships are in the mix, but the honest picture here is that this corner of New Zealand logistics moves freight, not funding rounds, and the directory reflects exactly that.
Our analysis of 200 Transportation and Logistics companies
$33.9b in tracked funding; 79% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Transportation and Logistics companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pinnacle Provider of port and container shipping services | — | 37 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1990 | — | — |
| 2 | Coastal Bulk Shipping Offers marine based shipping services | — | 73 mo ago | Seed | M Anatoki Owner | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+7 | — |
| 3 | Tourism Holdings Provider of recreational vehicle rentals, sales, manufacturing, and tourism experiences | — | 113 mo ago | Public | Grant Webster CEO | 1986 | JavaD3Bootstrap+22 | — |
| 4 | Mainfreight Provider of diversified freight forwarding services | — | 126 mo ago | Public | — | 1978 | Google MapsVue.jsAzure+16 | 1 expansion |
| 5 | a & g price A & G Price is an engineering firm that specializes in fabrication, machine shop, heat treatment, testing and… | — | — | Acquired | — | 1868 | WixSentryBootstrap+15 | 1 award |
| 6 | Aion Cargo Solutions A leading provider of comprehensive freight forwarding and logistics solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2004 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 7 | Air Center One Provider of professional FBO and corporate aircraft ground handling services | — | — | Acquired | Robin Leach CEO | 1984 | — | — |
| 8 | Air Napier Provider of private charter and passenger or freight services | — | — | Funding Raised | Shahnawaz Aslam CEO | 1993 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+22 | — |
Top 4 Transportation and Logistics companies in New Zealand
#1
Funding Raised · Wellington, Wellington · founded 1990 · 300 employees—raised▾
Provider of port and container shipping services
- May 2023Unattributed—
#2
Seed · Whanganui, Manawatu Wanganui · founded 2008—raised▾
Offers marine based shipping services
- Apr 2020Seed—
#3
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1986—raised▾
Provider of recreational vehicle rentals, sales, manufacturing, and tourism experiences. The business designs and builds recreational vehicles. It also rents and sells these vehicles. The business delivers to customers across multiple operations. It also has connections into the broader tourism industry and manufacturing sectors. The business represents multiple brands with brand equity and local heritage.
#4
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1978 · 1865 employees—raised▾
Provider of diversified freight forwarding services
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Transportation and Logistics coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
Riya reads income statements for fun. She covers the real money in a sector — revenue, growth, who actually earns — and never met a vague claim she didn't want a number for.