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Pallet supplier · Honolulu, HI

Pallets in Honolulu, HI. Delivered to your dock.

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Local details

How we supply Honolulu

Sourcing

Chesapeake Pallets is a pallet broker based in Atlanta. We don't own a yard. Your quoted price includes freight. One account manager handles your quote, paperwork and invoice.

Where we deliver

Pallet delivery around Honolulu.

Freight docks are around Honolulu Harbor in Iwilei, Kalihi Kai and Sand Island, near the airport in Mapunapuna, in Halawa, Aiea and Pearl City, in Waipahu and Waipio, and out west in Kapolei, Kalaeloa and Campbell Industrial Park.

  • Iwilei
  • Kalihi Kai
  • Sand Island
  • Kakaako
  • Mapunapuna
  • Moanalua
  • Halawa
  • Aiea
  • Pearl City
  • Waipahu
  • Waipio
  • Kapolei
  • Kalaeloa
  • Mililani

What Honolulu makes and ships

Honolulu at a glance

Honolulu is Hawaii's freight door. Mainland containers unload at Sand Island and the Honolulu Harbor piers, trucks carry them along Nimitz Highway to warehouses in Kalihi and Mapunapuna, and H-1 moves freight west to Pearl City, Waipahu and Kapolei.

The City and County of Honolulu covers all of Oahu, home to about 70 percent of Hawaii's residents. Tourism and the military are two of the biggest sectors in the state's economy, and both are concentrated here: Waikiki's hotels on one side, and on the other Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, formed in 2010 by merging the naval station and the air base, plus the Army's Schofield Barracks beside Wahiawa. Kapolei, which the government named Oahu's 'second city' in 1977, is where much of the island's growth is planned.

Nearly every pallet on Oahu starts as mainland freight. Hotels, base suppliers, restaurants and grocery stores are served by distributors that strip containers and rebuild loads, and many of those pallets then sail on to the neighbor islands. Industrial users at Campbell Industrial Park add heavier freight. The wood itself has to come in by ship, so every Honolulu order is quoted individually and planned around the sailing calendar rather than a trucking schedule.

Who buys pallets in Honolulu

Local buyers

Warehousing and storage · NAICS 493
43establishments
Food manufacturing · NAICS 311
252establishments4,294 jobs
Grocery wholesalers · NAICS 4244
186establishments4,225 jobs
Urban Honolulu, HI MSA. Source: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages (private sector).

Ports, air cargo and highways

How freight moves

Containers land at Honolulu Harbor, including the container yards on Sand Island at the harbor mouth. The state's Kapalama Container Terminal project at Piers 40–43 adds berths and yard space designed to cut container truck trips along Nimitz Highway. H-1 runs from Kapolei through Waipahu, Pearl City and Aiea to downtown, H-2 climbs to Mililani and Wahiawa, and H-3 crosses the Koolau Range from Halawa to the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay. Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor serves the west side, and Daniel K. Inouye International handles air freight.

  • Sand Island container yards
  • Honolulu Harbor Piers 40–43
  • Nimitz Highway
  • H-1
  • H-2
  • Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor
  • Daniel K. Inouye International

Which pallet to order

The right pallet grade for Honolulu.

Honolulu orders are quoted individually, so spend where handling is hardest. Pallets that will sail on to Maui, Kauai or Hawaii Island should be Grade A or new. Hotel and restaurant distributors working tight urban docks also do best with Grade A or AAA 48x40s. Campbell Industrial Park and construction users need block pallets or custom sizes. Freight leaving Hawaii for foreign ports needs heat-treated (HT) pallets carrying the ISPM 15 stamp. Inbound cargo faces state plant-quarantine inspection, so ask for bark-free wood with no insect damage; your account manager confirms the spec in writing.

Buying pallets in Honolulu: questions

Can you deliver pallets to warehouses near Sand Island and the harbor piers?
Yes. We deliver to distribution docks in Iwilei, Kalihi Kai and along Sand Island Access Road. Share the address, your receiving hours and the grade you need. Your account manager plans the order around vessel schedules and puts the delivery date in writing on your quote.
What pallet works for Waikiki hotel and restaurant deliveries?
Distributors serving hotels usually choose Grade A or AAA 48x40s, since hotel docks are cramped and pallets get moved by hand jacks through service halls. Tell your account manager how many pallets return from routes and how many go missing, and the quote is built around that.
Do pallets shipped to Oahu get checked by state inspectors?
Hawaii's Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity runs a Plant Quarantine Branch that inspects incoming goods to keep pests out. Ordering pallets free of bark, soil and insect damage avoids trouble on arrival. Your account manager confirms wood condition and grade with the quote.
Can you supply contractors serving Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Schofield?
Yes, on a quoted basis, to the contractor's own dock or warehouse. If the contract names a pallet type, size or treatment, send that language with the request, and your account manager matches it line by line and spells out the spec on the quote before anything ships.
What should heavy industrial users at Campbell Industrial Park order?
Drums, bagged materials and equipment concentrate weight, so block pallets or custom skids sized to the load usually work better than stringer 48x40s. Send dimensions and weights early, since every Oahu load is quoted individually, and your account manager confirms the build.
How are pallets priced for Honolulu, HI?
Your account manager gives you a delivered price, freight included, and a delivery date in writing before you send a PO.

Pallets delivered to your dock. Price and delivery date in writing.

First load: no contract, Net 30. Off-spec? Refuse it and pay nothing.

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