1,242 new freight and courier companies
registered in the UK, August 2026.

15,330 over the last twelve months, and 89,190 freight and courier companies on the register today. The newest 50 are named below. That is about 42 a day, somewhere in the country. 1,350 registered in the last 30 days to 25 September 2026, 340 this week (provisional).

Snapshot 1 September 2026, monthly, not live. The register total counts live companies only, and a company with codes in two trades sits in both. How the counts are made.

Freight & couriers · United KingdomAugust 2026
New in August
1,242
Down 6% on July 2026
Last 12 months
15,330
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 1,278 a month
Share of all new companies
3.0%
15,330 of the 515,810 companies counted across all 39 trades in the last twelve months. That makes freight and courier the number 11 trade on the register.
Last 30 days to 25 September 2026, provisional
1,350
340 in the last 7 days · Provisional: from the Companies House API feed, limited companies only, before the monthly register file.
Source: Companies HouseSnapshot 1 September 2026
Transport and logistics · The register

The 50 newest freight and courier companies registered in the UK.

Newest first across the towns in the source files. A town links to its full freight and courier list when that page exists, otherwise to the broader town page. Each company number links to its own Companies House record.

The 50 most recent of 15,122 freight and courier companies registered across 939 towns, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Company Town Registered
ALEXIAHR LIMITED Northampton 31 August 2026
APEXONE LOGISTICS LTD Wellingborough 31 August 2026
BEES ON WHEEL LTD Liverpool 31 August 2026
CARMOVE LOGISTICS LTD Hull 31 August 2026
F PALAGHIA DELIVERY LIMITED Leeds 31 August 2026
GALE FREIGHT LTD Barking 31 August 2026
HR12 LOGISTICS LTD Hayes 31 August 2026
JPHTRANSPORT LTD Liverpool 31 August 2026
KONICA LTD Feltham 31 August 2026
MADA LTD Gosport 31 August 2026
MAJHA HAULAGE LTD Derby 31 August 2026
MNVA LTD Leicester 31 August 2026
NODE LOGISTICS LTD Coventry 31 August 2026
NS COURIER SERVICE LTD Gloucester 31 August 2026
PAUL WASHINGTON SERVICES LIMITED Wakefield 31 August 2026
SARB2233 LTD Ashton-under-Lyne 31 August 2026
SHAMONEY LIMITED Rugby 31 August 2026
TMC LEGACY LTD Liverpool 31 August 2026
VB HGV SERVICES LTD Gravesend 31 August 2026
VERMA TRANSPORT LTD Southall 31 August 2026
VM GATEWAY LIMITED Nottingham 31 August 2026
VSTRANSPORT&LOGISTICS LTD Burton-on-Trent 31 August 2026
VT SELECT LIMITED Boston 31 August 2026
VVD LTD Solihull 31 August 2026
ADN SECURE LTD Clydebank 30 August 2026
CROWN ELITE TRANSPORT LIMITED Oxford 30 August 2026
DANMAREVM LTD Felixstowe 30 August 2026
HARVEY CARGO LTD Leicester 30 August 2026
HN LOGISTICS & COURIER LTD Ilford 30 August 2026
NEYO ENTERPRISE LIMITED Dagenham 30 August 2026
PROPER JOB REMOVALS LTD Truro 30 August 2026
REDLINE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS LTD Redditch 30 August 2026
SANCHARI TRANSPORT LIMITED Dagenham 30 August 2026
STANEL TRANSPORT LTD Grimsby 30 August 2026
TRADE DONKEY LTD Oldham 30 August 2026
VEDA CONSTRUCTION LTD Hayes 30 August 2026
CHAHAL SERVICES LTD Bedford 29 August 2026
DUST & DASH LTD Harlow 29 August 2026
FEDOTYNE LOGISTICS LTD Sunderland 29 August 2026
IVY ROSE LOGISTICS LIMITED Preston 29 August 2026
LD WASTE AND HOME LIMITED Weston-super-Mare 29 August 2026
MC RECOVERY LTD Milford Haven 29 August 2026
NIHAL FREIGHT SERVICES LTD Hayes 29 August 2026
P.T.R.A. LTD Scunthorpe 29 August 2026
ROADWINGS LOGISTICS LTD Southall 29 August 2026
SB ELITE GROUP LTD Reading 29 August 2026
SPAYNE & OGLE AUTOMOTIVE LTD Billingham 29 August 2026
33 TRANSPORT LTD Oldham 28 August 2026
AKAYA SUPPORT SERVICES LTD Coalville 28 August 2026
ALIS EXPRESS TRANSPORT LTD. LTD Rainham 28 August 2026

Names, numbers and incorporation dates are free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. What the register does not carry is a way to contact any of them. That is the part we sell.

Transport and logistics · Twelve months

October was the busiest month.

Monthly registrations of freight and courier companies across the UK. The busiest month was October on 1,600. The quietest was December on 968.

New freight and courier companies in the UK, by month

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · 15,330 in total

Previous months August 2026

Registrations dip over Christmas and pick up in the new year in almost every trade, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the one before it.

2015 to 2026

How far back it goes.

Freight & couriers companies on the register by year of incorporation, and this year measured against the same run of months last year.

New freight and courier companies in the UK, by year

2015 to 2026 · 2026 counts January to August only

Complete years 2026, part year
January to August 2026 9,941 New freight and courier companies so far this year
Same months, 2025 9,156 Up 9% year on year
2025, the last full year 14,545 Against 3,161 in 2015

Older years undercount. The register only holds companies that still exist. Anything formed in an earlier year and since dissolved has dropped off it, so the further back the chart goes the more it undercounts. That alone makes every trade look like it is growing. Some of the rise here is real growth and some of it is simply that recent companies have had less time to close. The long view of UK company formation works through it in full, across all 39 trades.

Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

Where they're starting up.

Every town with a page of its own for new freight and courier companies: 111 of them, covering 70% of the UK total for the trade. The rest are spread thinly across towns too small to count reliably.

New freight and courier company registrations by town. The bar shows the twelve-month figure relative to London, the largest. The mark and the bar carry the transport and logistics family colour.
Town Aug 2026 Last 12 months Relative twelve-month volume
London 79 1,056
Birmingham 44 634
Leicester 42 330
Manchester 30 318
Coventry 19 310
Leeds 14 248
Wolverhampton 18 239
Slough 18 229
Luton 18 227
Glasgow 15 217
Peterborough 16 216
Northampton 18 201
Doncaster 15 188
Hayes 26 188
Liverpool 17 183
Sheffield 13 157
Bradford 12 147
Nottingham 17 139
Bristol 10 138
Ilford 13 131
Southampton 12 129
Hounslow 10 116
Derby 7 114
Milton Keynes 7 113
West Bromwich 9 103
Stoke-on-Trent 8 102
Harrow 6 100
Bolton 4 99
Walsall 6 97
Southall 8 95
Bedford 9 91
Reading 10 91
Swindon 5 91
Scunthorpe 7 90
Ipswich 4 88
Dagenham 12 86
Grays 2 82
Oldbury 3 82
Preston 3 82
Romford 4 75
Rugby 12 74
Barnsley 5 73
Hull 8 73
Smethwick 6 73
Maidstone 7 71
Spalding 4 69
Dundee 3 67
Lincoln 6 67
Gravesend 2 65
Rotherham 8 64
Warrington 5 64
Feltham 5 62
Wellingborough 5 62
Bilston 7 60
Barking 6 59
Cardiff 2 57
Wembley 4 56
Corby 2 55
Grimsby 7 55
Edinburgh 5 53
Newcastle upon Tyne 2 53
Dunstable 8 52
Nuneaton 6 52
Willenhall 9 52
Edgware 4 51
Oldham 4 51
Uxbridge 5 50
Boston 6 49
Dudley 3 49
Huddersfield 6 49
Newport 2 49
Rochdale 6 49
Norwich 3 48
Tipton 4 48
Wigan 2 48
Basildon 4 46
Wakefield 5 45
Kettering 1 44
Telford 7 44
Watford 2 44
Basingstoke 3 42
Croydon 3 42
Worcester 8 42
Ashford 3 40
Blackburn 3 40
Oxford 3 40
St Helens 3 40
High Wycombe 1 38
West Drayton 8 38
Bournemouth 2 37
Burton-on-Trent 3 37
Chorley 2 37
Poole 4 36
Salford 5 36
Weston-super-Mare 3 36
Mansfield 4 35
Harlow 4 34
Crawley 0 33
Crewe 1 33
Exeter 0 33
Aberdeen 0 32
Banbury 1 32
Cambridge 3 32
Tamworth 1 32
Wednesbury 3 31
Aylesbury 3 30
Chelmsford 0 30
Halifax 2 30
Hemel Hempstead 1 29
Rochester 1 29
Dartford 1 27
United Kingdom, all towns 1,242 15,330

Towns come from the post town on the registered office address, except where that office is a formation agent: those companies are counted in the town established from their directors' other companies, or not counted at all. A town needs at least 30 new freight and courier companies in twelve months before it gets a page, so the rows above do not add up to the national total. How towns are worked out.

The whole transport and logistics family · All 39 trades nationally · Browse every town

Once a month, every new freight and courier company registered in the UK. The new month's count and the names behind it, by email. Nothing to buy, and one click to stop.