Pallets in Millington, Tennessee

BOX 01The place

Millington is a city about nine miles north of Memphis with 10,582 residents at the 2020 census and an estimate of 12,953 for 2025. Veterans Parkway links US 51 to I-269 and was formerly part of Tennessee Highway 385. The Canadian National Railroad serves many industrial properties (Wikipedia).

BOX 02The base and the jetport

Naval Support Activity Mid-South occupies the former Memphis Naval Air Station on 1,950 acres, with more than 7,500 military, civilian and contractor employees, and it hosts the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The same source puts the military and its contractors at about $335 million a year in economic benefit. Millington Regional Jetport serves general aviation and acts as FedEx's backup airport.

A base this size is a closed system with its own supply, so the pallet buyers in Millington are the private industrial users around it.

BOX 03What a Millington dock looks like

The flex and logistics buildings along the rail line are smaller than the DeSoto boxes and the Southeast Memphis belt. They run mixed freight, so the pallet pile is smaller and less uniform, with a larger share of odd sizes from contractors' inbound crates and equipment.

• Count what you have; a pile under 50 is a small request and that is fine.
• Say if the pallets are crate bases or custom sizes, not standard.
• Name the access: rail siding, dock door or yard.

BOX 04Which request

A few pallets are a removal; a steady flow is a recurring pickup; sound standard stock is a sell. The closest bigger cluster is Frayser and Raleigh to the south.

BOX 05Closed systems and open ones

A military installation runs on its own supply chain, with its own receiving and disposal rules. The private industry around it is a different matter, and it is the part that a pallet request describes. When a request comes from the Millington area, the sender should say whether the pallets are privately owned and where they sit.

Millington Regional Jetport serves general aviation and acts as a backup airport for FedEx, per Wikipedia, so some air freight handling happens nearby. It does not mean a large pallet pile, but it does mean a few freight businesses are close.

BOX 06A base that began as a flying field

The Naval Support Activity site began in November 1917 as Park Field, an Army Signal Corps school that trained pilots in World War I. It was commissioned as a Naval Reserve Aviation Base in 1942, renamed Naval Air Station Memphis in January 1943, redesignated Naval Support Activity Memphis in 1995 and renamed Naval Support Activity Mid-South in 1998 (Wikipedia).

Millington Regional Jetport opened in 1993 as a general aviation airport and has a control tower, an instrument landing system and a full-time fire and rescue facility. A town with a jetport and a base has deliveries of its own, but its pallet piles are still small ones.