Freight forwarding
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
35799
Active companies
24328
Formed in latest 12 months
6086
Median active-company age
3.1 years
Revenue known
482
Importers
988
Exporters
954
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 35,799 |
| Active companies | 24,328 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 6,086 |
| Importers | 988 |
| Exporters | 954 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 482 known, 23846 unknown (2.0%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 411 | 331 |
| 2025-12 | 362 | 430 |
| 2026-01 | 500 | 349 |
| 2026-02 | 458 | 356 |
| 2026-03 | 552 | 405 |
| 2026-04 | 533 | 287 |
| 2026-05 | 549 | 405 |
| 2026-06 | 584 | 250 |
| 2026-07 | 606 | 512 |
| 2026-08 | 194 | 277 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 22,394 |
| Dissolved | 11,140 |
| Dormant | 1,934 |
| Liquidation | 319 |
| In Administration | 8 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 2 |
| Converted / Closed | 1 |
| Insolvency Proceedings | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - East | 2,040 |
| West Midlands | 1,713 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 1,614 |
| Inner London - West | 1,344 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 1,332 |
| Greater Manchester | 1,226 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 1,137 |
| Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire | 970 |
| Essex | 878 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 850 |
Geography coverage: 24059 known, 269 unknown (98.9%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 11,240 |
| 1m-15m | 1,905 |
| 15m-54m | 118 |
| 54m+ | 196 |
Revenue-range coverage: 13459 known, 10869 unknown (55.3%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 7,586 |
| Small | 5,179 |
| Medium | 34 |
| Large | 293 |
| Holding | 57 |
| Dormant | 1,934 |
Company-size coverage: 15083 known, 9245 unknown (62.0%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 3,478 |
| 1–9 | 8,747 |
| 10–49 | 541 |
| 50–249 | 96 |
| 250+ | 15 |
Employee coverage: 12877 known, 11451 unknown (52.9%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 5,950 |
| 1–3 years | 6,020 |
| 3–5 years | 3,027 |
| 5–10 years | 5,596 |
| 10–20 years | 2,349 |
| 20+ years | 1,386 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 24328 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 24,328 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 400 |
| Exporter only | 366 |
| Both | 588 |
| Neither | 22,974 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 423 | £101,582,029,433 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 402 | £94,534,221,950 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 305 | £17,774,182,161 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 305 | £18,201,571,907 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 202 | £18,116,262,040 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 189 | £9,160,479,126 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 183 | £13,105,301,691 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 177 | £6,217,915,398 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 163 | £5,676,036,921 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting | 158 | £10,941,003,702 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 479 | £74,943,376,597 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 473 | £50,463,512,282 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 352 | £28,350,139,301 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 347 | £25,772,501,578 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 315 | £5,272,531,444 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 237 | £5,887,614,441 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 207 | £9,412,005,195 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 197 | £2,486,713,436 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 184 | £3,021,151,007 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting | 182 | £3,120,189,492 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 1,172 | 22,562 | 1,766 | 92.7% |
| Holding company | 11 | 22,562 | 1,766 | 92.7% |
| Solo founder | 15,713 | 22,562 | 1,766 | 92.7% |
| Ecommerce | 112 | 879 | 23,449 | 3.6% |
| Website | 1,058 | 1,097 | 23,231 | 4.5% |
| 749 | 1,097 | 23,231 | 4.5% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Ford & Slater Limited | £364,584,874 |
| Trans Global Freight Management Limited | £222,283,161 |
| Pro Carrier Limited | £136,121,017 |
| Woodland Global Ltd | £95,749,037 |
| Lpr - La Palette Rouge (gb) Limited | £89,664,000 |
| Sirva Relocation (no.1) Limited | £88,936,987 |
| Supreme Freight Services Limited | £87,576,307 |
| Quick International Couriers (uk) Limited | £82,897,064 |
| Quality Freight Services Limited | £77,117,636 |
| Howe Robinson Partners (uk) Limited | £68,588,739 |
Revenue coverage: 482 known, 23846 unknown (2.0%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Road freight | 75,758 |
| Taxi services | 21,437 |
| Courier services | 16,490 |
| Misc. land transport | 10,637 |
| Land freight storage | 9,520 |
| Removal services | 8,269 |
| Other land support n.e.c. | 4,538 |
| Marine cargo transport | 3,697 |
| Land cargo handling | 3,007 |
| National post | 2,883 |
| Cargo airlines | 2,675 |
| Charter airlines | 1,822 |
| Air support services | 1,707 |
| Air cargo handling | 1,499 |
| Water support services | 1,365 |
| City land transport | 1,277 |
| Water cargo handling | 1,181 |
| Marine passenger transport | 1,144 |
| Intercity rail | 813 |
| Passenger airlines | 711 |
| Other | 3,782 |
SIC classification
SIC 52290 — Other transportation support activities
Includes
forwarding of freight, arranging or organising of transport operations by rail, road, sea or air, organisation of group and individual consignments (including pickup and delivery of goods and grouping of consignments), issue and procurement of transport documents and waybills, activities of customs agents, activities of sea-freight forwarders and air-cargo agents, brokerage for ship and aircraft space, goods-handling operations, e.g. temporary crating for the sole purpose of protecting the goods during transit, uncrating, sampling, weighing of goods
Excludes
courier activities, see ##53.20, provision of motor, marine, aviation and transport insurance, see ##65.12, activities of travel agencies, see ##79.11, activities of tour operators, see ##79.12, tourist assistance activities, see ##79.90
Details
This class includes the activities of postal services operating under a universal service obligation by one or more designated universal service providers. The activities include use of the universal service infrastructure, including retail locations, sorting and processing facilities, and carrier routes to pickup and deliver the mail. The delivery can include letter-post, i.e. letters, postcards, printed papers (newspaper, periodicals, advertising items, etc.), small packets, goods or documents. Also included are other services necessary to support the universal service obligation.