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Pallets in Wilmington, NC.

A growing container port, which means inbound foreign footprints and a remanufacturing opportunity.
View into a loaded trailer stacked to the roof with wood pallets, rear doors open to blue sky
LoadedAbout 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.

Price a load into Wilmington

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.

Warehouse aisle lined on both sides with tall stacks of used wood pallets on a polished concrete floor, roof lights overhead

Inside the building

The sort aisle at half past seven. Graded stock on the left, waiting to be worked on the right.

430 mi

From our yard

About 7 hours to Charlotte

300,000

Metro population

New Hanover County

I-40

Primary route

I-40 · US-17 · US-421

Scheduled contract freight

Service tier

North Carolina is a extended-tier market.

Local picture

What moves through Wilmington.

A growing container port, which means inbound foreign footprints and a remanufacturing opportunity.

Wilmington sits in New Hanover County, served by I-40, US-17 and US-421. The local freight base is container port, chemicals, film production, and that mix is what determines which pallet specification actually makes sense here rather than which one is cheapest on paper.

Wilmington is served on scheduled contract freight from Columbus, roughly 430 miles away. That works for full trailer loads and program volume; for a few hundred units, a local yard will beat us and we will say so.

Industry base

  • Container port
  • Chemicals
  • Film production

Routes serving Wilmington

  • I-40
  • US-17
  • US-421

What ships in North Carolina

Large flat platforms for furniture, documented builds for pharmaceutical work, 48×40 GMA for I-85 distribution.

Matching the spec to the work

What Wilmington'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 Wilmington. Your own hazard analysis and racking govern.
Local sectorUsual gradeFootprintThe non-negotiable
Container portMixed, ISPM-15Import footprintsHeat treatment and legible marking
ChemicalsHeavy deck48×48, 42×42Concentrated load capacity and segregated returns
Film productionGrade A or B48×40Depends on whether the pallet comes back

Questions

Pallets in Wilmington.

Can you deliver pallets to Wilmington?

Served on scheduled contract carriers rather than our own trailers. Economic for full trailer loads and program volume; less so for small orders. Wilmington is about 430 road miles from our yard, about 7 hours to charlotte.

Do you collect used pallets from Wilmington?

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 Wilmington?

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 Wilmington depends on the distance above and the order size, which is why we quote delivered rather than FOB.

What is the local industry mix?

Container port, Chemicals, Film production. That mix is what decides the specification — see the table above, and industries for the full detail on each sector.

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