Pallets in Duval County, Florida
Duval County is the core of the market: three JAXPORT cargo terminals, grocery and frozen-food distribution on the Westside, and large fulfillment buildings at Cecil and near I-295. Its pallets split between export, cold dock and truck freight.
The port
JAXPORT owns three cargo terminals on the St. Johns River, Blount Island, Dames Point and Talleyrand, plus two intermodal container transfer facilities. It handled 1,388,841 TEUs in fiscal year 2025, up 4% from 1,340,412 in fiscal year 2024, and moved about 10.2 million tons of cargo (JAXPORT; Florida Auditor).
The Northside: Blount Island, Dames Point and Imeson
Blount Island and Dames Point marine terminals both sit on the Northside (ZIPs 32218, 32219, 32226, 32208, 32209), and the Dames Point Bridge connects the district to Arlington. Interstate 95 runs north-south through it and I-295 is the beltway connecting the other interstates. Imeson Industrial Park spans about 1,500 acres between the airport, the seaport and downtown, with daily CSX rail service (JLL), and Imeson Landing Business Park signed 13 tenants, mostly light-industrial and flex users such as Tote Maritime and VSS Logistics.
| Flow | Pallet |
|---|---|
| Export stuffing for the terminals | HT-stamped and dry, 48x40 or Euro, four-way |
| Import destuffing | Mixed, many sizes, often cores |
| Port-adjacent warehouses | Sorted Grade B 48x40 |
| Cold storage | Dry Grade A or B |
| Automotive processing | 48x45 and 48x40 |
| Airport cargo | Sound, light pallets |
A container leaving Blount Island or Dames Point carries pallets loaded at a warehouse a few miles away. A 40 ft box of 48x40 holds 20 on the floor, so a forwarder running ten boxes a week needs on the order of 200 stamped pallets a week. Importers feed the other direction, leaving warehouses with stacks of whatever wood the shipper chose; a pallet that arrived with imported goods may already carry the mark and be reusable for export, while one from a domestic delivery may not. See export and freight forwarding and the stamp guide.
Talleyrand and the Eastside
Talleyrand Marine Terminal (ZIPs 32206, 32202) is the terminal closest to downtown, handling containers, autos, breakbulk and liquid bulk. It has four container cranes, on-dock rail and 160,000 square feet of transit shed space for refrigerated, freezer or ambient cargo (JAXPORT). Its operator Enstructure, trading as Seaonus Stevedoring, loaded palletized chicken onto a refrigerated vessel bound for the Caribbean and moved 4,500 tons of frozen poultry in a single breakbulk shipment (Air Freight News). Breakbulk cargo is handled in pieces, not containers, so the pallet is the unit that crosses the dock.
In January 2024 Enstructure agreed to lease and develop 79 acres at the terminal under a 30-year agreement, growing to almost 115 acres. The intermodal yard has direct switching to CSX and Norfolk Southern through the 10-mile short line Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad (Maritime Professional).
- Palletized frozen cargo moving breakbulk needs clean, dry, stamped wood. Refrigerated sheds meet condensation when doors open on warm days, so dry stock matters more here than in a dry warehouse.
- Container loads need ISPM 15.
- Older industrial warehousing on the surrounding Eastside holds older racking, cores and Grade C.
A request from a Talleyrand dock gives the cargo and its temperature, the pallet size and the mark required, the count per vessel or per day, and where cleared pallets are staged.
Warehouses and rail
Three rail carriers serve the region: CSX, Norfolk Southern and Florida East Coast Railway. Foreign Trade Zone No. 64 covers more than 5,000 square miles and 156 million square feet of distribution and warehouse space. About 6.8 million square feet of industrial space was under construction in Q3 2025, with a 9.4% logistics vacancy rate (JAXUSA). Airport 295 Logistics Park at I-295 and Lem Turner Road holds three buildings of 499,000 square feet.
ZIPs
Duval spans 32202, 32204 to 32211, 32216, 32218 to 32221, 32226, 32234, 32244, 32246, 32254 and 32256. Marketplace listings of cores sit in 32210, 32218 and 32246.
Reading Duval by lane
| Lane | Where it sits | What the pallet is |
|---|---|---|
| Export | Northside and Talleyrand | HT-stamped 48x40 or Euro, four-way |
| Cold dock | Westside | Dry Grade A or clean Grade B |
| Truck | Cecil, Baldwin and Southside | Sorted Grade B 48x40 |
Why Duval produces so much surplus
Amazon grew from one facility in Jacksonville to ten, and 6.8 million square feet of industrial space came online in Northeast Florida in 2023, as much as was delivered from 2019 to 2022 combined (Daily Record). New buildings bring new inbound freight, and with it new pallet stacks to count.
The region also offers same-day truck access to more than 98 million consumers, which keeps truck-freight pallets in the highest-volume lane. Export wood is on the heat-treated page, and the dock side on the sell hub.
Southside and Baymeadows
The Southside and Baymeadows (ZIPs 32256, 32246, 32216, 32207) hold retail and wholesale distribution, medical and life sciences, light manufacturing and flex users. I-95 meets Baymeadows Road, I-295 and Southside Boulevard frame the Gate Parkway corridor at Town Center, and J. Turner Butler Boulevard (SR 202) links Southpoint to the Beaches.
Offices sit beside flex warehouses here, so pallets arrive in ones and tens rather than hundreds. Wholesale distributors and light manufacturers hold mixed stacks of 48x40s, some pooled, and medical suppliers want clean pallets. A flex tenant with a short run of pallets behind a door is a small load.
| User | Pallet |
|---|---|
| Wholesale distributor | Sorted Grade B 48x40 |
| Medical supplier | Clean Grade A, dry |
| Light manufacturer | Spec builds or combo |
| Flex tenant | A few dozen to clear |
Baldwin
Baldwin (ZIP 32234) sits at the western end of the West Beaver Street corridor, served by Interstate 10, US 90, US 301 and the US 301 Bypass. It is a rail junction: the western end of CSX's Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision, the northern end of its Wildwood Subdivision and the southern end of its Callahan Subdivision, with Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad running the former CSX line west toward Pensacola.
C&S Wholesale Services closed its West Beaver Street distribution center in Baldwin in 2025, cutting 490 jobs (Daily Record), so grocery receiving on the corridor now centres further east, on Publix's West Beaver Street campus on the Westside. What moves through Baldwin now is truck and rail freight through the junction, on sorted Grade B 48x40s.
Keep reading
Sources, reviewed 12 November 2026: JAXPORT; JAXPORT FY2025 report; JAXUSA logistics; Talleyrand terminal (JAXPORT); Frozen poultry (Air Freight News); Talleyrand expansion (Maritime Professional); Warehouse space push (Daily Record); Imeson (JLL); Imeson Landing (Daily Record); Baldwin, Florida (Wikipedia); C&S Baldwin closing (Daily Record).