Pallets in Corpus Christi, TX. Delivered by the truckload.

Inner Harbor breakbulk storage

The port's breakbulk docks handle flat steel, steel pipe, wind turbine parts, super-sacks and project cargo, backed by roughly 300,000 square feet of covered storage on the north and south sides of the Inner Harbor. Stevedores and logistics firms working there use pallets and dunnage to stage, store and reship mixed cargo between vessel, rail and truck.

Refinery and plant supply

Refineries along the ship channel and chemical plants around Portland and Ingleside run on spare parts, catalysts, lubricants and packaged additives. Supply houses and maintenance contractors serving them move cartons, pails and drums on 48x40s, and turnaround work brings short, heavy bursts of inbound freight to their docks.

Army helicopter depot work

The Corpus Christi Army Depot, a tenant of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi since 1961, overhauls and repairs the Army's rotary-wing aircraft. Contractors and suppliers tied to that work handle heavy, odd-shaped components, so their shipping rooms lean on new lumber, block pallets and custom crates rather than worn recycled 48x40s.

Aransas Pass shrimp boats

Shrimp boats sail from Conn Brown Harbor in Aransas Pass, a protected harbor given over mainly to shrimping, and the state historical association records packing plants built on that harbor once quick-freezing arrived. Iced and frozen seafood lives in cold, wet rooms, so buyers there want tight, sound pallets that stand up to meltwater and hose-downs.