News / Online shopping boom and outsourcing continues to power 3PL growth

E-commerce businesses outsourcing their logistics to fulfilment companies for online shopping has been a source of growth for 3PLs in the past year, even as container trade normalised to pre-Covid levels, according to forwarder representatives.

A spokesperson for Slovakian 3PL Fulfillment by FHB Group told The Loadstar outsourcing had grown particularly in the European market.

“We handle logistics for clothing companies and electronics retailers, for example, from Asia that want to sell their products to Europe, but that is complicated to do from ...