Gaylords in Gloucester City

Gloucester City is a small river city south of Camden, with a long industrial waterfront. Its best-known facility is a marine terminal built for fresh fruit, with large refrigerated storage, rooms for cold treatment and ripening, and space for breakbulk cargo.

The boxes there are tied to fruit. Bulk bins carrying grapes or pears from the Southern Hemisphere move through cold rooms; when they emerge they are damp and often discolored. Fruit boxes are the clearest case where the grade drops from cold and condensation, and we say so openly.

Holt's Gloucester Terminal in Gloucester City was reported in 2013 to hold about 20 million cubic feet of refrigerated storage, with cold-treatment capacity of 3,500 pallets, handling Chilean grapes, Argentinian pears, Ecuadorian bananas, Costa Rican pineapples and Spanish and South African citrus (FreshPlaza).

We name the terminal for geography and have no relationship with it. The figures are from a 2013 report and may have changed.

This page covers 08030. The industries to expect there, from our market research: fruit import terminal, cold storage, fumigation and ripening and breakbulk.

Fruit seasons follow the Southern Hemisphere: Chilean grapes from late autumn to spring, pears and citrus at other times. Domestic produce fills the gaps.

• Buy. Packers and distributors needing bulk boxes for fruit-adjacent uses; see our liner and food contact notes.
• Sell. Clean empties from dry rooms, if any.
• Recycle. Damp or discolored fruit boxes, flattened.

Tell us where the boxes were stored and for how long. Cold rooms are hard on board.

• Cold treatment. Holding fruit at a set low temperature for days to kill pests as an import requirement.
• Fumigation. Treating a space or cargo with gas to control pests; boxes from fumigated cargo are noted separately.
• Condensation. Water that forms on cold surfaces when they meet warm, humid air, soaking corrugated.

• Which fruit the boxes carried and which room they sat in.
• Whether they are damp or dry now.
• The count and footprint.
• Whether a truck can reach the stack.