Used gaylord boxes in Detroit

Assembly plants

Stellantis' Jefferson North Assembly in Detroit, opened in 1991, builds the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango with 5,096 employees (2022).

Stellantis' Detroit Assembly Complex - Mack builds the Jeep Grand Cherokee with 4,103 employees (2022).

GM's Factory Zero on the Detroit-Hamtramck border covers 365 acres with 4,500,000 sq ft of floor space and builds electric pickups and SUVs. Each plant draws a supplier chain, and each supplier ships parts in boxes and sheds empties.

Waiting at a border, a terminal or the market

Boxes that wait in a border queue or a terminal yard meet humidity and rain, so dry, lined, strapped boxes loaded below the rating on the stamp are the safe choice, and a one-way pack avoids a second crossing. A produce bin at a wholesale market needs a liner and your own food-safety plan, because we do not sell used gaylords as food-grade.

Detroit neighborhoods and the city of Hamtramck

Southwest Detroit and Delray

Southwest Detroit and Delray has 2 ZIP codes (48209, 48217). Delray holds the US port of entry of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, opened July 27, 2026; 48217 (Boynton and Oakwood Heights) holds the Marathon refinery south of the River Rouge. Trades: cross-border trucking; oil refining; wastewater and utilities; steel on Zug Island.

The district has many independent grocery stores, including several Hispanic supermarkets that stock meat, specialty produce and tortillas, and the Southwest Detroit Business Association acts as its industry organisation. Southwest Detroit is a region of the city that includes Corktown, Mexicantown, Hubbard Farms and Delray. (Wikipedia, Delray, Detroit, retrieved 2026-11-11)

Eastern Market

Eastern Market has ZIP code 48207. 43-acre market district with more than 150 businesses; the wholesale market runs at night on weekdays from April to November. Trades: wholesale produce; meat and specialty food; flowers and garden.

It is described as the largest historic public market district in the United States, and its farmers' distribution center as the largest open-air flowerbed market in the country. Eastern Market is about one mile northeast of downtown Detroit. Its boundaries are Gratiot Avenue to the south, Mack Avenue to the north, St. Aubin Street to the east and Interstate 75 to the west. The district became a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. (Wikipedia, Eastern Market, Detroit, retrieved 2026-11-11)

Hamtramck

Hamtramck has 2 ZIP codes (48211, 48212). GM's Factory Zero on the Detroit-Hamtramck line has 4.5 million sq ft of floor area and builds electric pickups and SUVs. Trades: EV truck assembly; meat processing.

General Motors' Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant built the Chevrolet Volt, Cadillac CT6, Chevrolet Impala and Buick LaCrosse before it closed in March 2019 and was retooled as Factory ZERO for the GMC Hummer EV. American Axle announced in April 2009 that it would close its plant at the Hamtramck and Detroit city limit, and by 2014 most of the 1.9 million-square-foot former facility had been demolished. Hamtramck is about five miles north of downtown Detroit and is surrounded by Detroit on most sides. (Wikipedia, Hamtramck, Michigan, retrieved 2026-11-11)

ZIP codes

Name the ZIP code nearest your dock in the request, so that the right area section can be matched to it.

What that means for the box

• Assembly feeders: match the customer footprint, see backup packs.
• Terminals and cross-border: one-way packs, dry, Grade A, see export lanes.
• Market produce: ventilated octagon bins with a liner, see produce bins.
• Plant empties: sort by grade, photograph the stamp, see selling empties.

The river terminals

The Port of Detroit is on the west side of the Detroit River and is described as the largest inland port in Michigan. It handled about 13.7 million tons of cargo and 1,333 vessel arrivals in 2011, on roughly 80 acres, with steel its most valuable commodity and ore its largest by tonnage; the terminals are privately owned and include two operated by Nicholson Terminal & Dock (Wikipedia, Port of Detroit, retrieved 12 November 2026). Those are 2011 figures. I-75 crosses the River Rouge in southern Detroit and follows the river to the Ambassador Bridge (Wikipedia, Interstate 75 in Michigan, retrieved 12 November 2026).

The Ambassador Bridge

The Ambassador Bridge opened on 15 November 1929 and is privately owned through the Detroit International Bridge Company on the US side and the Canadian Transit Company on the Canadian side. It connects I-75 and I-96 to Ontario Highway 3 and carries more than 25 percent of merchandise trade between the two countries by value (Wikipedia, Ambassador Bridge, retrieved 12 November 2026).

Rail and employers in the city

Freight rail in the city is run by Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Conrail Shared Assets, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, each with local yards, and the Delray Connecting and Detroit Connecting shortlines also serve it. Downtown holds about 80,500 jobs, one-fifth of the city's employment, and the Detroit Medical Center is the largest single employer (Wikipedia, Detroit, retrieved 12 November 2026). Willow Run Airport, in western Wayne County near Ypsilanti, is a general aviation and cargo airport.