Two Lancaster County buildings totalling about 410,000 sq ft, ambient and dry, with pick and pack run in house
County property records + company site
Use cases
Find 3PL and warehousing operators and site decision makers
Most of them are privately held regional operators that market almost nothing. Search by footprint, temperature capability, storage approval or location, and Causo reads HMRC customs and excise warehouse approvals, FDA registered food facilities, US Customs bonded warehouse listings, BRCGS certification, planning portals and satellite imagery site by site, then shows you the evidence behind every match.
Run your first search163,000 warehouses over 50,000 sq ft worldwide, forecast to reach 214,000 by 2027
How to find warehousing and 3PL operators by size, temperature or location
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Single 320,000 sq ft distribution building near Hazleton, 38 dock doors, registered as a food facility
FDA facility registration + state business registry
About 265,000 sq ft across two Allentown sites, family owned since 1987, no group parent
County assessor records + state business registry
Illustrative example. The source types are the ones Causo genuinely reads for this market.
Where the data on warehousing and 3PL operators comes from
- HMRC customs warehouse and excise warehouse approvalsApproved warehousekeepers, approved premises and the duty suspended goods a site may hold
- FDA registered food facilities and US Customs bonded warehouse listingsUS warehouses registered to store food, and bonded sites by port of entry with the class of warehouse
- FSA approved establishments and BRCGS Storage and DistributionFood grade storage approval, chilled and frozen capability, certification grade and audit date
- Local authority planning portals and county assessor recordsNew sheds, extensions, mezzanines and the recorded building footprint
- Aerial and satellite imageryRoof footprint, dock doors, yard depth and trailer parking
- Companies House, state business registries, HandelsregisterOwning entity, directors, group structure and filed accounts
- IWLA, UKWA and FMCSA carrier recordsAssociation membership, service mix, and whether the operator also runs its own trucks
- Indeed, Greenhouse, LeverShift manager, site manager and goods-in roles as a timing signal
- Plus many moreNo fixed provider list. If the answer lives somewhere else, the agents read that instead.
Ask anything about a warehousing or 3PL operator
Every result is a starting point, not an endpoint. Ask a follow-up about any operator on your list in plain English and the agents go back out and read for it, then answer with the sources they used.
How big is the site, and how much of it is racked?
AnswerAbout 310,000 sq ft under one roof with 34 dock doors, and the racking layout filed with the mezzanine application covers roughly two thirds of the floor.
SourcesPlanning application + current satellite imagery
Can they legally hold food, and at what temperature?
AnswerYes. The site is a registered food facility and the operator holds BRCGS Storage and Distribution certification covering ambient and chilled. No frozen chambers are listed.
SourcesFood facility registration + certification directory
Is any of the space bonded?
AnswerOne of the two buildings holds a customs warehouse approval. The second is general storage, so duty suspended stock can only sit in the approved area.
SourcesCustoms warehouse approval + the operator’s own site
Why 3PL and warehousing operators are missing from B2B databases
Contact databases are assembled from what companies publish about themselves: professional profiles, funding rounds, tech stacks, hiring pages. Contract warehousing is the opposite kind of business. Space is filled by a handful of shippers who already know the site, capacity moves through brokers and referrals, and the company behind a 300,000 sq ft shed is very often a private company with two directors and a one-page website. That business model produces almost none of the web signals a profile-derived database collects. There is a second problem underneath it. Even where the company is listed, the things that decide whether you should call it are physical, and none of them is a database field. Footprint, ceiling height, dock doors, yard depth, racking type, temperature capability, whether the site is bonded and whether it may legally hold food are attributes of a building, not of a company record. Those attributes are published, just not where a contact database looks: in HMRC customs and excise warehouse approvals, FDA registered food facility records, US Customs bonded warehouse listings by port, FSA approved establishments and BRCGS Storage and Distribution certificates, in the planning application for the shed itself, in county assessor records, and in the roof of the building as it appears on current imagery. This is also the line between a warehouse operator and a freight forwarder. A forwarder arranges transport and is asset-light, so it is defined by its licences. A 3PL that owns or leases the box is defined by the box.
Figures as of August 2026.
Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Causo for 3PL and warehousing leads
| Apollo / ZoomInfo | Buying a list | Causo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regional operators with one shed and no marketing site | Largely absent | Absent | Found through storage approvals and planning records |
| Filtering on "over 250,000 sq ft with chilled space" | No such field | No such field | Expressed in plain English |
| Knowing whether a site is bonded or food grade | Not recorded | Not recorded | Read from customs approvals and food registrations |
| Reaching the site or operations lead | Usually a head-office generic address | Often bounced | Named role, verified address |
Frequently asked questions.
Start from the approvals rather than a database. A UK operator storing duty suspended goods holds an HMRC customs warehouse or excise warehouse approval, a US warehouse that stores food must be registered with the FDA as a food facility, bonded sites in the United States are listed by US Customs by port of entry, and food grade storage shows up in FSA approved establishments and BRCGS Storage and Distribution certification. The building itself leaves a planning application and a county assessor record. Causo reads those alongside Companies House and state business registries, so an operator with no marketing presence is as findable as one with a website.
Two reasons. Those databases are assembled largely from professional profiles and web signals, and a privately held contract warehouse whose space is filled by four shippers usually has no profile to scrape. Even where the company is listed, the attributes that matter are missing: square footage, ceiling height, dock doors, temperature capability, bonded status and food grade certification are properties of a building, and no contact database carries a field for any of them. There are 42,427 general warehousing and storage businesses in the US alone, and most of them are known by their sites rather than their web presence.
A freight forwarder arranges transport. It books space on ships, aircraft and trucks, handles customs paperwork and is typically asset-light, so its public identity sits in licences such as an FMC ocean transportation intermediary licence or a goods vehicle operator licence. A third-party logistics warehouse operator holds the physical asset: a building with a footprint, a racking layout, a temperature range and, sometimes, a customs or excise approval attached to the premises. If you sell warehouse management software, robotics, racking, agency labour, packaging, rooftop solar or industrial space, you are selling to the second group, and the data that identifies them is storage approvals and property records rather than transport licences.
Yes, in plain English. None of those is a field in any contact database, so Causo works them out from primary sources instead: footprint from planning applications, county assessor records and current satellite imagery, temperature capability from FSA approved establishments, FDA food facility registrations and BRCGS Storage and Distribution certificates, and bonded status from HMRC customs warehouse approvals and US Customs bonded warehouse listings.
It is read at the moment you search rather than pulled from a stored snapshot, so a customs warehouse approval granted in the spring, a planning consent for an extension issued last month or a food facility registration renewed this year appears in this month’s results.
Yes. The sources differ by country, so Causo uses the local equivalents. In the United States that is FDA registered food facilities, US Customs bonded warehouse listings by port of entry, FMCSA records where the operator also runs trucks, and county property and assessor records for the building. In the Netherlands it is Douane customs warehouse authorisations and the Kamer van Koophandel register. In Germany it is Zoll customs authorisations, the Handelsregister and IFS Logistics certification. Satellite imagery and municipal planning records work everywhere.
It depends on the size of the operator. At a single-site contract warehouse it is usually the owner or the general manager, often the same person who signs the racking order. At a group running several buildings it is more often an operations director, a group supply chain lead or a head of continuous improvement, and the site manager and shift managers are the people who have to live with the decision. Causo surfaces the role alongside the site so you can tell which of those you are looking at.
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