Market map · Germany

Transport, logistics & rental in Germany_

As of 4 November 2026, 30,455 transport, logistics & rental companies are based in Germany: 1,341 with 51+ employees, 1,284 hiring right now, led by freight transport & equipment rental and Berlin.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
30,455
51+ employees
1,341 · 4%
Hiring now
1,284 · 142 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Freight transport & equipment rental · 23,561
Top city
Berlin · 1,236
Running cold outbound
2
30,455transport, logistics & rental companies in Germany
1,341with 51+ employees
1,284hiring on their own career site today
142opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Transport, logistics & rental in Germany, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Freight transport & equipment rental
23,561 · 1,106
Passenger road transport
6,565 · 118
Public transit & transport infrastructure
1,258 · 102
Aviation services
551 · 30
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
7,078 · 1
2-10 employees
20,374 · 641
11-50 employees
1,662 · 195
51-200 employees
839 · 255
201-500 employees
288 · 109
501-1000 employees
119 · 44
1001-5000 employees
78 · 30
5001-10000 employees
9 · 6
10,001+ employees
8 · 3
By city
companiesshare
Berlin
1,2364%
Köln
1,1324%
Hamburg
1,0824%
München
5522%
Frankfurt am Main
3941%
Düsseldorf
3431%
Bremen
3121%
Stuttgart
2081%
Nürnberg
2051%
Hannover
1921%
Duisburg
1751%
Dortmund
1701%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest transport, logistics & rental companies in Germany

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

Rhenus LogisticsFreight forwarding & logistics · Holzwickede10,001+ employeesGLSCourier & express delivery · Berlin5001-10000 employeesGeis GruppeFreight forwarding & logistics · Bad Neustadt an der Saale5001-10000 employeespfenning-GruppeFreight forwarding & logistics · Heddesheim5001-10000 employeesTransdevScheduled bus operators · Perleberg5001-10000 employeesZUFALL logistics groupFreight forwarding & logistics · Fulda1001-5000 employeesconfern Möbeltransportbetriebe GmbHRemovals & moving services · Mannheim1001-5000 employeesELA ContainerShipping container sales & hire · Trappenkamp1001-5000 employeesa. hartrodtFreight forwarding & logistics · Hamburg1001-5000 employeesLeschacoFreight forwarding & logistics · Bremen1001-5000 employeesDEUFOLFreight forwarding & logistics · Hofheim am Taunus1001-5000 employeesPFLAUMFreight forwarding & logistics · Strullendorf1001-5000 employeesVGFScheduled bus operators · Frankfurt am Main1001-5000 employeesESWE VerkehrScheduled bus operators · Wiesbaden1001-5000 employeesMars Holding GmbHFreight forwarding & logistics · Nürnberg1001-5000 employeesMETRO LOGISTICSWarehousing & fulfilment 3PL · Düsseldorf1001-5000 employeesOffergeld LogistikFreight forwarding & logistics · Aldenhoven1001-5000 employeesL.I.T.Freight forwarding & logistics · Brake1001-5000 employeesGEORGI GmbH & Co. KGFreight forwarding & logistics · Burbach1001-5000 employeesHessische LandesbahnScheduled bus operators · Frankfurt am Main1001-5000 employees
30,455 transport, logistics & rental companies in Germany; 1,284 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of transport, logistics & rental in Germany

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30,455 transport, logistics & rental companies are based in Germany: 1,341 with 51 or more employees, 1,284 hiring right now (142 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by freight transport & equipment rental and Berlin. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/transport_logistics_rental/germany)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Transport, logistics & rental in Germany: questions

How many transport, logistics & rental companies are there in Germany?

30,455 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,341 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to transport, logistics & rental?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which transport, logistics & rental companies in Germany are hiring?

1,284 have an open role on their own career site today and 142 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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