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Top 25 Carload freight companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,371 carload freight companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 17,339 professional contacts across them, including 4,579 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers carload freight companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest carload freight companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 757 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pentagon is the specialist provider of supply chain logistics and services for critical industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through two decades of investment, innovation, and growth, Maritime Transport has evolved from small beginnings into a leading logistics business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GBRf’s team of 1,400 people operate over 1,100 trainloads a week, moving over 20% of Britain’s rail freight with 99% reliability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 558 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're proud to be forward thinkers, as well as forward movers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Davies Turner - Your worldwide Freight and Logistics partner As an International Freight Forwarder, Davies Turner can arrange to move your cargo to any International destination…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GBA Logistics is an experienced and insightful logistics company that uses its knowledge to deliver trusted, confident, and reliable transportation solutions with our own fleet of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abbey is a leading transport and logistics company, specialising in bulk liquid and powder transport.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Owens Group has seen five successful decades, experiencing consistent growth built on solid family values with a strong commitment to customer satisfaction With a dedicated…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Simarco is one of the UK’s leading independent freight groups with a proud heritage spanning 3 decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “XDP was formed in 1995 and has since grown to be the largest privately owned parcel and freight network in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cory Brothers Limited has been a trusted supply chain partner for over 180 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quality Freight Services Limited - Global Freight Forwarding Specialists” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ALPI UK is part of the Albini & Pitigliani Group, an international freight forwarding and logistics organisation with over 80 years of experience delivering supply chain solutions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Woodside Logistics Group offers the complete transport solution comprising of Woodside Haulage, Woodside Motorfreight, Woodside Distribution, Woodside Tankfreight and Woodside…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Having recently celebrated our 30th Anniversary KRL is an established nationwide and worldwide company with growing teams and offices being able to provide multi-modal freight…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Meachers Global Logistics is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of international freight and transport logistics services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Uniexpress is one of the UK’s largest independently owned freight forwarders, providing reliable global logistics solutions across sea, air and road, supported by comprehensive UK…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edge Worldwide Logistics (EWL) was formerly known as A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seagull Maritime Agencies were incorporated in 1992.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EFM provides award-winning freight forwarding by air, sea and land for some of the most discerning clients around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Like many Road Transport businesses, Fagan & Whalley Ltd started off with a horse and cart employed on small deliveries around our local villages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Evolution Time Critical is a respected supplier to global industries, delivering within impossible timescales which can not be achieved with traditional solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Allseas Global Logistics, where problem solving is a way of life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “World Cargo Logistics was founded in with a goal of providing the most reliable service –conscious, cost effective heavyweight forwarding within the transport industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: carload freight companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names carload freight companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of carload freight companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name carload freight companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Carload freight companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,371 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among carload freight companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “carload freight companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names carload freight companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among carload freight companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,579 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Carload freight companies by metro
- Carload freight companies in London132
- Carload freight companies in Manchester44
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names carload freight companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many carload freight companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,371 carload freight companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Pentagon Freight Services, headquartered in Dartford, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most carload freight companies?
London leads with 132 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (44) and Felixstowe (24).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,579 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,371 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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