Box supply for Northern New Jersey shippers
The six northern counties had 39,367 warehousing jobs in 2025, and Middlesex County held 26,309 of them. These buildings serve the Port of New York and New Jersey, the second busiest US port for loaded containers.
What Northern New Jersey buyers order
Import and retail distribution buildings want stock RSC ranges replaced by the pallet. Pharmaceutical manufacturing, 15,663 jobs and 3.6 times the national share, wants plain shipping cases. Refrigerated warehousing (2,728 jobs) and grocery wholesale (22,444) add cases for cold rooms.
Where the warehouses are
Edison has two of the five busiest warehouse ZIPs, 08817 and 08837, with Secaucus, Dayton and Cranbury. Many buildings run appointment-only receiving.
Boxes for Northern New Jersey: 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 Northern New Jersey
Older multi-storey warehouses in Newark, Jersey City and Paterson sit near new single-storey parks in Edison and the Meadowlands, and access differs enormously. Some buildings take a full trailer at a high dock; others need a smaller truck and a liftgate. Give us the address details with the ZIP. Pharmaceutical shippers in Somerset and Middlesex counties often need exact repeat specifications and documented changes.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 6 counties of the Northern New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Passaic, Union) metro area: Middlesex, Essex, Union, Bergen, Hudson and Passaic, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 08817 Edison, 07094 Secaucus, 08810 Dayton, 08837 Edison and 08512 Cranbury, and the most warehousing jobs are in Middlesex, Hudson and Bergen counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: Plain, consistent shipping cases on a fixed specification
- Refrigerated warehousing: Cases that keep their strength in coolers and freezers
- Chemical manufacturing: Double wall and bulk boxes for drums, jugs and bags
- Grocery and related product wholesale: Mixed cases and repack cartons for store deliveries
- Warehousing and storage: Stock RSC ranges, mailers and large cartons replaced by the pallet
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.