Gaylord boxes in Gloucester County, New Jersey

Gloucester County runs from the Delaware River shore, where refineries and terminals stand, inland through suburbs and warehouse parks to a belt of farms. The three belts rarely meet, but they share the same highways and the same need for bulk packaging.

The county is best known to this trade for Logan Township, where a former farmland tract has become one of the largest food distribution hubs on the East Coast. Behind its docks pile the empties from every ingredient delivery. Along the river are petroleum, asphalt and chemical storage sites. Inland, farms grow produce that needs bins in season.

The detailed, sourced figures for Pureland and the Swedesboro buildings sit on the Logan Township page. Our research lists petroleum refining, food distribution, cold storage, logistics and farming as the county's main users of bulk boxes.

We name no operator as a customer and state no prices, minimums or turnaround times.

This page covers 08085, 08066, 08027, 08086, 08093, 08096, 08080, 08028, 08062, 08014, 08020, 08056 and 08063. The industries to expect there, from our market research: petroleum refining, food distribution, cold storage, logistics and farming.

Farm demand for harvest bins runs from early summer, when berries and early vegetables come in, through the melon and pumpkin weeks of late summer and fall. Warehouses fill before the winter holidays and clear after.

• Buy. Farms wanting multi-trip harvest bins; terminals and plants wanting bulk boxes for non-hazardous goods.
• Sell. Food distribution buildings with clean, dry empties from ingredient deliveries, often in trailer lots.
• Recycle. Stacks that no longer qualify for resale; the county's highway network makes large pickups practical.

Large warehouse stacks are best sent early. A trailer needs planning, and so does a dock appointment.

• Hub. A large distribution site that receives goods from many suppliers and ships them on to many customers, as at Pureland.
• Cold storage. Warehousing kept below room temperature, from cool for produce to frozen, the reason some boxes in this county are damp.
• Harvest bin. A multi-use box in which crops are picked and staged in the field before packing.

• Which part of the county, and the ZIP.
• Whether you are a farm, a warehouse or a terminal.
• The count, footprint and grade.
• Whether a trailer can back to a dock, and the hours.