Service area · Anchorage, AK
Pallets deliveredin Anchorage, AK.
Anchorage is where Alaska's freight gets sorted. Ships unload at the Port of Alaska, wide-body freighters land at Ted Stevens around the clock, and shrink-wrapped pallets head out by truck to the Mat-Su, by rail to the Interior and by plane to rural villages.
Alaska
Quoted individually.
Ocean or air freight replaces the truck, so the national ranges and lead time don't apply. Your account manager prices each load in writing.
How we supply it
An Atlanta broker, a yard near your dock.
Chesapeake Pallets is a pallet broker based in Atlanta. We don't run a yard in Anchorage. For each load we buy from an independent yard close to your dock that has your grade in stock, and the delivered price includes the freight. One account manager handles the quote, the paperwork and the invoice.
Where we deliver
Around Anchorage.
Most deliveries go to docks around the Port of Alaska and Ship Creek, along the airport's cargo side and Kulis Business Park, in midtown and south Anchorage, at Eagle River and Chugiak, and out the Glenn and Parks highways in Palmer and Wasilla.
- Ship Creek
- Government Hill
- Midtown Anchorage
- Spenard
- Dimond
- Kulis Business Park
- Eagle River
- Chugiak
- Palmer
- Wasilla
- Big Lake
- Girdwood
Served from our Atlanta office through vetted yards near Anchorage.
Anchorage at a glance
What Anchorage makes and moves.
Anchorage holds nearly 40 percent of Alaskans, and its economy runs on transportation, the military at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, government, tourism and the offices of oil companies and Alaska Native regional corporations. The city-owned port runs a container yard alongside fuel tanks and bulk cement storage. Ted Stevens sets aside land for cargo and logistics, including Kulis Business Park, and the state counts roughly 138 wide-body cargo landings a day there.
Pallet demand here is about breaking freight down and building it back up. Goods that arrive by container are stripped in Anchorage buildings, then rebuilt onto pallets for stores in Wasilla and Palmer, railcars bound for Fairbanks, and air shipments to villages off the road system. Those outbound pallets travel again, so worn stock is a poor bet. The wood itself has to come north by sea, which is why every Anchorage order is quoted individually and planned around vessel calendars.
Who buys pallets here
The docks that run on pallets in Anchorage.
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Rural bush-freight shippers
Wholesalers and stores shipping groceries and supplies to villages off the road system often use the Postal Service's bypass mail program, which accepts palletized orders only at approved air-carrier facilities in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Its handbook sets a 40 by 48-inch maximum footprint and requires shrink wrap, so uniform 48x40s matter.
3PL & warehousing → - 02
Airport cargo and logistics tenants
Ted Stevens has no slot restrictions or curfew, and the state says its cargo-transfer rights are the most liberal in the country. Forwarders and logistics tenants around the airfield and Kulis Business Park handle freight moving between aircraft and trucks and need sound wood pallets for the warehouse legs.
3PL & warehousing → - 03
Mat-Su Valley farms and stores
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is one of the few farming areas in Alaska, centered on Palmer, home of the Alaska State Fair. Growers, plus grocery and building-supply stores serving growing Wasilla, draw on Anchorage distributors roughly 40 to 45 miles away on the Glenn and Parks highways.
Food & beverage → - 04
Port-side construction suppliers
The port stores bulk cement and fuel beside its container yard, and its own dock replacement program keeps contractors busy. Construction suppliers near Ship Creek and the port handle bagged cement, steel and lumber, heavy, awkward loads that call for block pallets or custom skids.
Manufacturing →
- Warehousing and storage · NAICS 493
- 18establishments
- Food manufacturing · NAICS 311
- 63establishments780 jobs0.39× the US share of jobs
- Grocery wholesalers · NAICS 4244
- 46establishments1,367 jobs1.45× the US share of jobs
How freight moves
Ports, rail and interstates.
The Port of Alaska sits on Knik Arm just north of downtown, near the Alaska Railroad's yards along Ship Creek, where Anchorage began as a railroad tent camp in 1915. The Glenn Highway runs northeast past Eagle River and Chugiak to Palmer and joins the Parks Highway to Wasilla and Fairbanks. The Seward Highway follows Turnagain Arm south toward Girdwood, Whittier and the Kenai. Ted Stevens Anchorage International lies five miles southwest of downtown, beside the Lake Hood floatplane base that serves bush lodges and villages.
- Port of Alaska
- Ship Creek rail yards
- Glenn Highway
- Parks Highway
- Seward Highway
- Kulis Business Park
Which pallet to order
The right grade for Anchorage.
Because Anchorage orders are quoted one at a time and the wood rides north by sea, pick a grade that survives several more trips. Bush-freight shippers using bypass mail need uniform 48x40s that stack square under shrink wrap, so Grade A or new is the usual choice. Construction suppliers moving cement, steel or lumber should ask for block pallets or custom sizes. Grocery and beverage loads for Mat-Su stores ship well on Grade A. Freight bound for Asia or other foreign buyers needs heat-treated (HT) pallets stamped under ISPM 15. Your account manager confirms everything in writing.
Straight answers
Buying pallets in Anchorage.
Can you supply pallets that meet Alaska bypass mail rules?+
Can you deliver to forwarders near the airport and Kulis Business Park?+
What pallet should construction suppliers near the port order?+
Should Anchorage freight headed overseas go on heat-treated pallets?+
How are pallets priced for Anchorage, AK?+
Your first Anchorage load, priced today.
Quoted individually, in writing, before you send a PO.