LOGISTICS OPERATIONS
The network that shortensdistances and connects Brazil
3 of 5
packages crossed a state border to reach their destination
Trucks, distribution centers, and neighborhood businesses. That physical network is what lets commerce reach farther: an entrepreneur in the Northeast can sell to someone in the South, with the package arriving in record time.
Cutting logistics costs and delivery times is what enables e-commerce to grow.
In 2025, Mercado Libre operated 137 logistics centers and 5,946 delivery and pickup agencies, reaching 1 in every 4 municipalities in the country.
Cutting logistics costs and delivery times is what enables e-commerce to grow, and benefits small, peripheral, and low-ticket sellers the most. Mercado Libre's logistics map, which started out concentrated in the Southeast, gradually expanded toward the South and, more recently, toward the Center-West, North, and Northeast.
This reach integrates the domestic market, connecting regional economies with high-demand hubs, and spreads opportunities more evenly, bringing the network closer to smaller cities it didn't used to reach. The last mile — the delivery and pickup agencies, many of them neighborhood businesses — is the most visible tip of that process.
80%
of package agencies, which handle product delivery and pickup, are located in cities with fewer than 50,000 residents. And 95% of buyers have one of these points within 3 km
+60%
of SMBs that sell on Mercado Libre reached a city they hadn't sold to before
22,500
jobs in the logistics area were created in 2025
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Brasil · 2026
