Skip to content

Louisiana · Orleans Parish

Pallets in New Orleans, LA.

A break-bulk and container port with an enormous inbound foreign footprint mix.
Outdoor yard in bright sunshine with tall stacks of clean EPAL-stamped pallets beside a Shipping and Receiving door under a clear blue sky
OutboundBanded, counted and staged against the door. Stacks of fifteen, double-banded, the way a forklift expects them.

Price a load into New Orleans

Quantity, footprint and ZIP. You will get a written quote with the grade, the freight and the window — or an honest referral if we are the wrong supplier for this lane.

  • Written quotes, usually inside one business day
  • Loads from 100 pallets to full 53' trailers
  • We buy as readily as we sell — tell us which way it flows

We reply by email, so this needs to be a working address.

US or Canadian 10-digit number. Formats itself as you type.

Two-letter code or full name.

US ZIP (43217) or Canadian postal code (K1A 0B1).

Whole units, digits only.

No phone number required from us — we quote by email so you have the numbers in writing.

View into a loaded trailer stacked to the roof with wood pallets, rear doors open to blue sky

Loaded

About 330 units, two high, roughly 15,000 lb in a trailer rated for three times that. Pallet loads cube out long before they gross out.

920 mi

From our yard

About 14 hours 30 minutes

1.27 million

Metro population

Orleans Parish

I-10

Primary route

I-10 · I-610 · US-90 · I-510

Project freight and sourcing

Service tier

Louisiana is a national-tier market.

Local picture

What moves through New Orleans.

A break-bulk and container port with an enormous inbound foreign footprint mix.

New Orleans sits in Orleans Parish, served by I-10, I-610, US-90 and I-510. The local freight base is port freight, petrochemicals, tourism logistics, and that mix is what determines which pallet specification actually makes sense here rather than which one is cheapest on paper.

At roughly 920 miles, New Orleans is outside the range where hauling routine stock from Ohio makes economic sense. What does travel is specification: engineered builds, export crating and program design, where the value sits in the drawing rather than in the wood.

Industry base

  • Port freight
  • Petrochemicals
  • Tourism logistics

Routes serving New Orleans

  • I-10
  • I-610
  • US-90
  • I-510

What ships in Louisiana

Drum footprints and heavy-deck specification, engineered builds for offshore services, segregation policy support.

Matching the spec to the work

What New Orleans's industry base actually needs.

Different sectors want opposite things from the same rectangle of wood. These are the rules we apply locally.
Applied to the sectors listed for New Orleans. Your own hazard analysis and racking govern.
Local sectorUsual gradeFootprintThe non-negotiable
Port freightMixed, ISPM-15Import footprintsHeat treatment and legible marking
PetrochemicalsHeavy deck48×48, 42×42Concentrated load capacity and segregated returns
Tourism logisticsMixed, ISPM-15Import footprintsHeat treatment and legible marking

Questions

Pallets in New Orleans.

Can you deliver pallets to New Orleans?

Reachable on project freight and through our sourcing network. For routine weekly supply, a yard closer to you will almost certainly beat us on delivered cost, and we will say so. New Orleans is about 920 road miles from our yard, about 14 hours 30 minutes.

Do you collect used pallets from New Orleans?

Collection at this distance only works on volume — a full trailer of sorted cores, or a program arrangement. For smaller quantities a regional recycler is the right call. See sell your pallets.

What do pallets cost in New Orleans?

Recycled 48×40 GMA has run roughly $7.50 to $12.00 for Grade A and $5.00 to $8.50 for Grade B in our home market, before freight. Delivered pricing to New Orleans depends on the distance above and the order size, which is why we quote delivered rather than FOB.

What is the local industry mix?

Port freight, Petrochemicals, Tourism logistics. That mix is what decides the specification — see the table above, and industries for the full detail on each sector.

Other Louisiana markets

All of Louisiana · Every state · Our own trailer lanes