Argentina Third-Party Logistics Market Size, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2025-2035

Parcels, imports and grain push shippers to operators

The Argentina third-party logistics market was valued at USD 6.55 billion in 2025 and is projected to increase from USD 7.17 billion in 2026 to USD 15.91 billion by 2035, registering a CAGR of 9.26% during 2026–2035. Demand comes from marketplaces, importers, consumer goods makers, laboratories and grain shippers that hand freight, storage and parcel work to outside operators rather than running their own networks. Buenos Aires Province and CABA held the largest regional share, 52.0% in 2025, because the metropolitan area concentrates online orders, premium warehouses and the main import gateways. Mendoza is the fastest-growing region at 9.95% a year, helped by the Cristo Redentor crossing into Chile and new copper project traffic. Commercially, the most important change is the build-out of automated sorting hubs around Buenos Aires, while a 50-year national tender for the Belgrano Cargas rail network could widen intermodal options for operators later in the forecast period.

Which fees and buyers define this outsourced work?

The third-party logistics market counts fees that shippers pay to outside operators for road and multimodal freight, warehousing, distribution, parcel delivery and specialist handling such as temperature-controlled medicine work. Buyers contract through direct enterprise agreements, competitive tenders, digital bookings and subcontracts from forwarders, and many large accounts combine several of these routes.

The estimate excludes fleets and warehouses that shippers run for themselves, along with the value of the goods moved. Real estate rents paid by operators are treated as a cost inside their fees, so landlords such as logistics park developers are not counted separately in the market value.

Trucking leads while parcel delivery gains fastest

Which service type earns the most, and what grows fastest?

Based on service type, the market is categorized into freight transportation, warehousing and distribution, courier and parcel delivery, and specialist logistics. Freight Transportation led with 46.0% of 2025 value because road haulage remains the default for bulk cargo, and the Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario estimated 138 million metric tons of grain moving by truck in the 2025/26 campaign. Courier and Parcel Delivery grows fastest at 11.29% a year as parcel flows scale, and Forbes Argentina reported in May 2026 that Andreani handles about 5 million shipments a month.

Which industries buy the most outside logistics work?

Based on end-use industry, the market is categorized into consumer goods and retail, e-commerce, automotive and manufacturing, and healthcare and agribusiness. Consumer Goods and Retail led with 38.0% of 2025 value because national brands outsource at scale, and TASA Logística's named accounts include Unilever, Quilmes and PepsiCo, according to El Cronista. E-commerce grows fastest at 11.33% a year as CACE counted 1,338,952 new online buyers in 2025. Health work also matters, since a Ministry of Health tender for vaccine and medicine storage reached ARS 78.27 billion in August 2025, Diario Jornada reported.

Which customers anchor operator contracts?

Based on customer type, the market is categorized into multinational shippers, domestic brands and retailers, digital merchants and dedicated trade accounts. Multinational Shippers led with 40.0% of 2025 value because global brands buy multi-site contracts, and Urbano named Adidas and Zara among its roughly 350 clients, according to El Cronista in October 2024. Digital Merchants grow fastest at 11.20% a year as smaller sellers gain direct access, and Forbes Argentina reported in May 2026 that Andreani now takes shipments from merchants selling through Tienda Nube, social media or WhatsApp.

How much of the work now runs on digital systems?

Based on technology, the market is categorized into integrated digital execution, standalone software execution, manual execution and automation-led execution. Integrated Digital Execution led with 42.0% of 2025 value because large operators tie routing to order systems, and Andreani has used route optimization for about two years, Forbes Argentina reported in May 2026. Automation-Led Execution grows fastest at 11.75% a year as equipment spreads beyond parcels, and Revista Mercado reported in March 2026 that Droguería Sur installed three BD Rowa robots at Bahía Blanca, joining more than 200 in Argentine pharmacies and distribution centers.

Merchants, importers and grain corridors drive volumes

Merchant fulfillment expansion lifts parcel and storage work

Online sellers are moving storage, picking and delivery to outside operators because units are growing far faster than orders, which raises picking and storage work. CACE, the national electronic commerce chamber, counted 645 million units sold in 2025, up 28%, across 253 million orders, up 3%. As a result, online retail platforms need national reach, and Mercado Libre said in March 2026 that it would spend USD 3.4 billion in Argentina that year, with part going to storage centers, according to Forbes Argentina. Loginter is the operating partner at its Don Torcuato site, which started in April 2026 and handles up to 1.5 million parcels a month, El Economista reported. In turn, Digital Merchants grow at 11.20% a year in the Credence Research estimate.

Import-linked logistics recovery adds inbound cargo

Imports rebounded after trade and customs rules eased, which gave forwarders and contract operators more inbound cargo to clear, store and distribute. INDEC reported imports of USD 75.79 billion in 2025, up 24.7%, while purchases of consumer goods and vehicles rose 66.2%, according to Diario de Cuyo. The courier limit also moved from USD 1,000 to USD 3,000 per shipment, and Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas reported a 177% jump in arriving packages that January, El Cronista said in April 2025. Because of this flow, Oscar Andreani told La Nación in April 2026 that Chinese marketplaces were growing 30% or more, against 5% to 10% for its other business, and Forbes Argentina reported that goods can now arrive in 15 to 18 days.

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Agricultural corridor activity sustains heavy freight demand

Grain sets the largest seasonal freight peak in the country, and that peak forces shippers to book outside hauling and storage capacity well ahead of harvest. The Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario estimated a 163 million metric ton crop for 2025/26, with 150 million metric tons moved, and transport used 1,487 million liters of diesel. Truck arrivals show the same pressure, because 850,000 trucks reached Gran Rosario by early May 2026, about 185,000 more than a year earlier, according to BAE Negocios. Those grain shipments matter beyond the farm, since Gran Rosario handles close to 80% of agro-industrial exports. As a result, 27.0% of market value sits in the Central Industrial Corridor.

Mining and energy projects open remote supply contracts

Mining and energy projects are creating supply contracts in provinces where few operators have sites, so companies with mountain and long-haul experience can win new work. Andreani's chief executive told Forbes Argentina in May 2026 that mining and courier were growing strongly, and the company bought plants in Neuquén and Salta as supply hubs, El Cronista reported in December 2024. In Mendoza, the PSJ Cobre Mendocino project expects about 10 concentrate trucks a day on the Cristo Redentor corridor, Panorama Minero reported in June 2026. Infobae put that project near USD 600 million and about 40,000 metric tons a year in December 2025. Because of this pipeline, Mendoza is the fastest-growing of the four regions in the Credence Research estimate.

Automation and developer-built parks reshape operations

Automation shifts parcel sorting from labor to machines

Sorting is shifting from manual lines to automated hubs because parcel peaks have outgrown what shift labor can absorb at a stable cost. La Nación reported in April 2026 that Andreani completed a USD 30 million plant at General Pacheco that sorts up to 26,000 parcels an hour, on a site Forbes Argentina describes as 20,000 square meters with room for 70,000 more. Urbano's 32,000-square-meter Barracas plant processes about 10,000 packages an hour, El Cronista reported in October 2024. Software is moving in parallel, since CACE found that 62% of the e-commerce companies in its 2025 study use artificial intelligence, although these are sellers rather than logistics operators. As a result, Automation-Led Execution rises at 11.75% a year, according to Credence Research estimates.

Rise of developer-built parks changes warehouse supply

Operators increasingly lease from specialist developers instead of owning sheds, which is changing how quickly they can open capacity for a new contract. Colliers Argentina counted 137,200 square meters of net absorption in Greater Buenos Aires in the second half of 2025, the strongest semester in three years, Revista Mercado reported. Premium stock then reached 2,622,620 square meters in the first half of 2026, with vacancy at 8.96% and asking rent at USD 7.03 per square meter a month. Financing is following, because IDB Invest and JICA arranged up to USD 100 million for Plaza Logística in December 2025. Plaza Logística is also building a USD 115 million center of more than 100,000 square meters in Escobar with Mercado Libre, Bloomberg Línea reported in March 2026.

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Rail concessions offer an opening for intermodal contracts

The rail tender is an opening for operators that can combine long-haul rail with truck collection and storage at each end of the route. Resolution 1350/2026 launched a 50-year concession in August 2026 across three lots, Belgrano, San Martín and Urquiza, law firm Marval O'Farrell Mairal reported, with offers due Nov. 11, 2026. The gap is wide today, since the Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario estimated just 12 million metric tons of the 2025/26 grain crop moving by rail. Better long-haul rail links would also reduce fuel exposure, because diesel spending reached USD 3.76 billion across that crop. Operators with existing Central Industrial Corridor sites are best placed to bid for this transfer work, because those lines cross the zone.

Interior fulfillment hubs give operators a new growth opening

Storage outside Greater Buenos Aires is a clear opening because delivery promises are tightening in provinces that have long been served from the capital. Mercado Libre plans a USD 91 million, 60,000-square-meter center at Estación Juárez Celman in Córdoba by the end of 2027, Perfil reported in August 2026, and iProUP called it the group's first such site outside the metropolitan area. CACE data show the size of the prize, with the Litoral at 12% and Centro at 9% of 2025 online sales. Urbano has named Junín, Córdoba, Mendoza and Santa Fe as expansion points in a USD 30 million plan, El Cronista reported, which suggests regional operators will compete for the same interior volume.

Costs, weak corridors and pharma rules test operators

Fast-rising trucking costs squeeze fixed-price contracts

Trucking inflation is the most immediate pressure on operator margins, especially on contracts priced months in advance. FADEEAC's cost index rose 20% from January to May 2026 and 48% over 12 months, while diesel climbed about 33% in 2026, Sitio Andino reported in June 2026. Smaller hauliers feel this first because they hold less pricing power with large shippers. Operators can respond with monthly tariff clauses, route optimization and higher loads per trip.

Weak corridors and falling port traffic limit network reliability

Infrastructure quality still restricts service levels, which forces operators to carry more buffer stock and longer delivery windows than peers in larger regional markets. Argentina's World Bank logistics performance score was 2.8 in the 2022 data, down from 2.89 in 2018. World Bank data also show container traffic of about 1.47 million TEU in 2024, below 1.67 million in 2022. Shippers on long routes pay most for this gap, so operators promote regional hubs to shorten trips.

Lower vehicle output and exports cut factory logistics volumes

Automotive contracts have become less predictable, which weakens inbound parts and finished vehicle work that operators once planned around stable schedules. ADEFA data published by La Capital in January 2026 show production of 490,876 units in 2025, down 3.1%, with exports down 10.8%. The imported share of domestic sales rose from 30% to 60% in two years, moving volume toward port and pre-delivery work. Operators with manufacturing accounts must therefore redeploy assets and renegotiate volume guarantees.

Medicine rules raise the entry bar for healthcare operators

Healthcare logistics brings regulatory exposure that general parcel operators often underestimate, because licensing depends on technical staffing as well as site quality. ANMAT withdrew Correo Argentino's secondary-packaging authorization for its Malvinas Argentinas plant in January 2026 through Disposition 12/2026, citing the lack of a technical director, Noticias NQN reported. Bidders that lack these credentials risk losing public and laboratory accounts. Operators reduce the risk by hiring licensed pharmacists and ring-fencing medicine storage from other cargo in every facility they run.

Buenos Aires Province and CABA lead as Mendoza grows fastest

Buenos Aires Province and CABA hold the largest network

Buenos Aires Province and CABA held 52.0% of 2025 value and grow at 9.00% a year. The zone leads because CACE placed 52% of 2025 online sales in the metropolitan area and a further 5% in the rest of the province. Third-party logistics demand in this zone draws on 2.59 million square meters of warehouse stock tracked by Colliers Argentina in late 2025. Growth trails the national rate because new hubs are beginning to shift some stock toward interior cities, although the capital stays the main import gateway.

Central Industrial Corridor combines grain, parts and new hubs

The Central Industrial Corridor held 27.0% of 2025 value and grows at 9.45% a year. Córdoba and Santa Fe combine grain, machinery and vehicle plants, and Gran Rosario took 850,000 grain trucks by early May 2026. Mercado Libre already runs five last-mile sites in Córdoba, with capacity for up to 75,000 parcels a day, iProUP reported in 2026. However, factory cargo is uneven, since a Fisfe report cited by La Capital showed Santa Fe vehicle output down 24.4% through September 2025.

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Mendoza grows on mountain freight and copper plans

Mendoza held 6.0% of 2025 value and grows fastest at 9.95% a year. Freight demand here rests on the Cristo Redentor crossing, which handles more than 360,000 trucks a year, the provincial government said in December 2024. It added that about 75% of Mercosur land cargo uses the pass and that Mendoza has 11% of the national truck fleet. A tender for 329 kilometers of Route 7, with about USD 300 million of planned works, should improve this corridor, Panorama Minero reported in June 2026. A 57-hectare intermodal park at Luján de Cuyo adds rail access, according to Infobae.

Remaining Provinces follow energy, mining and medicine routes

The Remaining Provinces held 15.0% of 2025 value and grow at 9.55% a year. Demand in these provinces is thin, since CACE placed just 9% of 2025 online sales in the south and 7% in the northwest, so work centers on specialist contracts. Andreani's Neuquén and Salta plants serve energy and mining supply, and Droguería Sur distributes to more than 1,500 pharmacies from Bahía Blanca through Patagonia. Long distances keep unit costs high, which favors operators that can share loads across several accounts on each route.

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Sorters, parks and a rail tender mark 2024–2026

Sorters, robots and routing software change the work

• Automated sorters cut the labor per parcel in large hubs, as Andreani's Chinese-made General Pacheco system shows at peak volumes.
• Pharmacy dispensing robots reduce picking errors for medicine distributors, and Droguería Sur reports dispensing times of 8 to 12 seconds per delivery.
• Route optimization software lowers kilometers per drop and gives operators a partial answer to rising diesel costs on long routes.
• Artificial intelligence tools remain focused on marketing and user experience in CACE's 2025 study, so warehouse and transport use still has room to expand.

National networks compete with global forwarders

Competition in third-party logistics splits between national networks that win on reach and global forwarders that win on international lanes and multinational accounts. Andreani stands out for automation and scale, while OCA, described by El Cronista as the main private postal operator, was among the bidders in the 2025 Ministry of Health tender. TASA Logística built its contract business partly through the October 2020 purchase of Kuehne+Nagel's local contract operations, which added three Buenos Aires storage centers. Loginter competes for dedicated marketplace work, including Mercado Libre's Don Torcuato site. DSV offers road, sea, air and project services from its Argentine business, and Marken, a UPS subsidiary, holds health ministry and ANMAT licenses for clinical supplies. Mercado Libre's own network is both a large customer and a competitive threat, because merchants that use it may need fewer outside contracts. Tenders are decided largely on price, as Suizo Argentina's winning bids roughly 17% under the reference price showed in 2025.

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Outsourcing gains matter more than cargo growth alone

Credence Research's view is that outsourcing share, more than cargo growth alone, explains the 9.26% rate for third-party logistics in Argentina. Total freight in Argentina is likely to grow far more slowly, so this forecast depends on shippers handing over work they run today. The near term argues for caution, because Andreani expected 2026 volumes to end level with 2025, Forbes Argentina reported, even after heavy spending on capacity. Operators that win parcels and pharma work should gain the most, while those relying on factory cargo face a harder path until vehicle output stabilizes.

How the Argentine operator estimate was built

The report uses 2025 as the base year on a calendar basis, and market values come from the Credence Research model. That model draws on official trade statistics from INDEC, World Bank logistics and port indicators, online sales data from CACE, grain transport estimates from the Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, trucking cost data from FADEEAC, warehouse data published by Colliers Argentina and dated company and government announcements. Segment splits and regional shares and growth rates are Credence Research estimates. No primary interviews or surveys were carried out for this edition of the report.

Parcel, interior and rail work set the path to 2035

The third-party logistics market is expected to reach USD 15.91 billion by 2035, as parcel, storage and specialist work take a larger part of shippers' freight budgets. Automation should keep spreading from Greater Buenos Aires to interior hubs once the Córdoba project and similar sites open toward 2027. Rail is the main swing factor, because a successful concession would change long-haul costs for grain and containers. Mining traffic through Mendoza depends on project financing and the final export route, while diesel prices and medicine licensing will continue to decide which operators keep margins through the forecast period.

Note: The depth of individual sections depends on data availability for this market. Volume, capacity, trade and other unit-based metrics are included where applicable.