Box supply for Los Angeles-Long Beach shippers
Los Angeles and Long Beach run the busiest container gateway in the country. The Port of Long Beach moved a record 9,881,595 TEUs in 2025, and the Port of Los Angeles 9,447,731 from January to November. Box buyers here are mostly the warehouses and food businesses around those ports.
What Los Angeles-Long Beach buyers order
Grocery and related wholesale employed 44,471 people in the metro in 2025 and food manufacturing 46,988. Import warehouses in Santa Fe Springs and the industrial districts south and east of downtown repack goods into RSCs; exporters, whose top containerized export was recyclable paper, ask for triple wall for machinery and goods going abroad.
Where the warehouses are
The metro's own warehousing count, 27,225 jobs, is small next to the Inland Empire, because most big distribution has moved east. Walnut and Rowland Heights also rank among the busiest warehouse ZIPs.
Boxes for Los Angeles-Long Beach: ask for a price
Give the delivery ZIP, each inside size with its grade and count, and any receiving window or dock limit.
- Inside size
- length x width x depth, in inches
- Style
- RSC, full overlap, telescope, die-cut or bulk
- Wall and grade
- read it off the stamp on your current box
- Count
- boxes per order, and how often you reorder
- Packed weight
- box plus contents
- ZIP
- where the boxes are delivered
After you send it
- We reply by email, usually with questions first if anything is unclear
- You confirm the specification, and a sample or drawing if it is a new design
- We send the price, the delivery window and the count tolerance
- On approval the order is scheduled and shipped to your dock
Worth knowing in Los Angeles-Long Beach
Garment, toy and consumer goods importers in Vernon, Commerce and the City of Industry receive goods in ocean cartons and repack them for stores and online orders. Many ask for cartons that match a retailer's routing guide, with exact outside dimensions and weight limits. Food makers in the metro, from tortillerias to bakeries and snack plants, buy cases on short cycles. Close to the ports, export forwarders pack machinery and parts in triple wall for long voyages.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in both counties of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area, Orange and Los Angeles, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 90670 Santa Fe Springs, 90058 Los Angeles, 91789 Walnut, 91748 Rowland Heights and 90040 Los Angeles, and the most warehousing jobs are in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Grocery and related product wholesale: Mixed cases and repack cartons for store deliveries
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.