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As of 4 November 2026, 23,561 freight transport & equipment rental companies are based in Germany; 1,106 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 23,561
- Hiring now
- 1,106 · 114 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Freight forwarding & logistics · 7,000
- Top city
- Berlin · 1,044
- Parent market
- Transport, logistics & rental · 30,455
Freight transport & equipment rental in Germany, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Freight forwarding & logistics | 7,000 | 30% |
| Removals & moving services | 6,480 | 28% |
| Road freight haulage | 4,557 | 19% |
| Vehicle rental | 2,126 | 9% |
| Courier & express delivery | 2,018 | 9% |
| Construction equipment rental | 1,603 | 7% |
| Heavy haulage & project cargo | 1,475 | 6% |
| Warehousing & fulfilment 3PL | 1,073 | 5% |
| Vehicle transport & car shipping | 1,064 | 5% |
| Other freight transport & equipment rental | 930 | 4% |
| Crane hire & lifting services | 682 | 3% |
| Cold chain & refrigerated transport | 616 | 3% |
| Campervan & motorhome rental | 554 | 2% |
| Bicycle & e bike rental | 437 | 2% |
| Vehicle leasing & fleet management | 417 | 2% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 4,534 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 16,533 · 555 |
| 11-50 employees | 1,370 · 167 |
| 51-200 employees | 725 · 225 |
| 201-500 employees | 238 · 93 |
| 501-1000 employees | 92 · 34 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 57 · 24 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 6 · 5 |
| 10,001+ employees | 6 · 3 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 1,044 | 4% |
| Köln | 1,014 | 4% |
| Hamburg | 947 | 4% |
| München | 423 | 2% |
| Bremen | 272 | 1% |
| Frankfurt am Main | 257 | 1% |
| Düsseldorf | 243 | 1% |
| Nürnberg | 175 | 1% |
| Hannover | 165 | 1% |
| Dortmund | 154 | 1% |
| Stuttgart | 149 | 1% |
| Leipzig | 139 | 1% |
The biggest freight transport & equipment rental companies in Germany
The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
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The stack of freight transport & equipment rental in Germany
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Other segments of transport, logistics & rental in Germany
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23,561 freight transport & equipment rental companies are based in Germany; 1,106 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/transport_logistics_rental/germany/freight_transport_and_equipment_rental)
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- 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.
Freight transport & equipment rental in Germany: questions
How many freight transport & equipment rental companies are there in Germany?
23,561 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Transport, logistics & rental → Freight transport & equipment rental → leaf niches such as freight forwarding & logistics, removals & moving services, road freight haulage. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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