Pallets in New Jersey. Delivered by the truckload.

New Jersey is where much of the New York region's imported freight first touches land. Containers come off ships at Port Newark and Elizabeth, roll down the Turnpike to warehouse rows between Robbinsville and South Brunswick, and South Jersey farms add blueberries and cranberries.

Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal, run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is the main container facility for the New York metro and much of the Northeast. Its imports feed distribution centers in the Meadowlands and along the New Jersey Turnpike, where warehouses line both sides of the road near Cranbury and Monroe and industrial parks run into South Brunswick. The state also makes food, packaged goods and medicine. Down south, Hammonton calls itself the Blueberry Capital of the World, and low ground in the Pine Barrens grows cranberries.

That makes New Jersey a heavy user of standard 48x40 pallets. Many import containers arrive floor-loaded, so cargo gets palletized at transload and cross-dock buildings before it moves to stores. Grocery and packaged-goods DCs turn pallets in high counts and inspect what they receive. South Jersey packers get busy during the summer berry harvest, and exporters sending boxes back out through the port need heat-treated wood.