Suffolk County gaylords: towns, roads and docks
Suffolk County is the harbor end of the chart: the produce docks of Chelsea, the port and Marine Park docks of South Boston, and the ZIPs from 02127 to 02151 that surround them. Everything here is short haul and dense.
The harbor ring
The two towns on this page do different jobs. Chelsea is food: wholesale produce, food distribution and refrigerated warehousing around the New England Produce Center. South Boston is freight: seafood processing, waterborne cargo warehousing, motor freight and container shipping around Conley Terminal and the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park. Both produce a lot of empties, but of different kinds: octabins and rectangular triple-wall boxes off produce loads in Chelsea, and a more varied mix off cargo and freight in South Boston.
ZIPs 02150 and 02151 cover Chelsea and neighbors on the Revere side; 02127, 02210 and 02128 cover South Boston, the Seaport edge and East Boston. A request that carries its ZIP helps us place it.
Roads out of the county
Trucks leave Suffolk County on the Tobin Bridge and US Route 1 north, on I-93 north and south, and on the Mass Pike and the Ted Williams Tunnel to the west. The county is small; every dock is a short drive from an on-ramp, and most of the real constraint is the street between the dock and the ramp.
That is why dock detail matters in a Suffolk County request: door height, liftgate or not, hours when a trailer can stop. Put them in the message.
Sell, buy or recycle from Suffolk
Produce docks are sellers by nature: large daily volume, mostly dry, mostly sound. Port and cargo docks are sellers and recyclers: sound boxes sold, worn boxes baled as clean OCC. Buyers are few inside the county and many along Route 128 and I-495, which is where the Suffolk loads usually go next.
Reading Suffolk County as a pair
Suffolk is the harbor end of the chart, and its two town pages, Chelsea and South Boston, describe two different docks. Chelsea is wholesale produce and cold storage; South Boston is port warehousing and seafood. A request from either starts with the dock type, and the pages above say how each is handled.
Between them, Chelsea and South Boston show the two sides of the harbor trade: wholesale produce on one shore, container cargo and seafood on the other. Docks in the rest of Suffolk County, in Revere or Boston proper, can use whichever page is closest to their kind of freight and say so in the request.
Sources
Each read on November 11, 2026.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Towns with pages | Chelsea and South Boston |
| Roads | Route 1 and the Tobin, I-93, and I-90 |
| ZIPs in the area | 02127, 02210, 02150, 02151, 02128 |
| Trades | seafood processing, port warehousing, wholesale produce, and food distribution |