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This dissertation was written as part of my MSc in Strategic Product Design at the International Hellenic University. It attempts to provide a brief overview, in which the reader will be able to be informed about the demand and the supply of the logistics services and how it operates. The scope of this paper is focused on the trends and state of the art in Greece. In the first part of the paper you will read about Third Party Logistics (3pl) situation and management, in Greece. In the second part of the paper, according to a research that has been conducted, you will learn via a case study, what really happens in a Greek business. In the same part, you will find the conclusions and, the predictions according to the case study given. This is helpful for businesses to understand what the opportunities and the drawbacks are, by using logistics outsourcing. The purpose of this work is to provide information both on the situation of logistics companies when Greece was into depth -economic crisis- and on the situation that follows after, when Greece was liberated from its economic crisis, in 2018. We exact information about the global situation of 3pl and its state of the art in Greece via the existing literature, research of the market niche and information collection from organizations, which keep yearly data. Note that, for further information and evaluation about the methods for a 3pl selection, there should be an additional study of the situation.