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It has no land border with another state.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,41],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":40},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Alaska","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","587","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.03 percent","587 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","30","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","20","587 ÷ 30, rounded","",{"t":10,"text":42},"Alaska reports no refrigerated warehouse capacity separately in the USDA table we used, so the cold question depends on the individual customer.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"Reading the numbers",[46],{"t":47,"items":48},"ul",[49,50,51,52],"Anchorage Municipality County has 525 warehousing jobs, 89.4 percent of Alaska's 587, the most in the state.","Food manufacturing employs 8,882 people in Alaska, 15.13 for every warehousing job.","Grocery and related product wholesale employs 1,717 people in Alaska, 2.93 for every warehousing job.","Alaska holds 0.03 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 3333, spread over 30 establishments averaging 20 jobs each.",{"h2":54,"blocks":55},"Who ships pallets here",[56,71,73],{"t":18,"head":57,"rows":61,"caption":70},[58,59,60],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[62,66],[63,64,65],"Food manufacturing","8,882","15.13",[67,68,69],"Grocery and related product wholesale","1,717","2.93","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":72},"In Alaska, food manufacturing employs 8,882. Food plants want a pallet they can wash, which points at a smooth moulded deck, and they should ask the maker for resin and colourant paperwork rather than a blanket approval. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable that washes down, open or closed deck by product, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documentation, since FDA does not approve pallet models.",{"t":10,"text":74},"Food manufacturing is the trade where Alaska is most concentrated, at 2.6 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":76,"blocks":77},"The empty return",[78,80],{"t":10,"text":79},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 30 warehouse establishments in Alaska sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 36,000 pallets. 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Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":100,"blocks":101},"Next door",[102],{"t":10,"text":103},"Alaska has no neighbouring state by land, so there is no table of borders; the pages for the [states](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates) and [corridors](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fcorridors) show the nearest mainland routes.",{"h2":105,"blocks":106},"Words on this page",[107],{"t":108,"rows":109},"dl",[110,113,116,119,122,125,128,131,134],[111,112],"UL","Underwriters Laboratories, a safety testing body that publishes fire test standards, including one for storage pallets.",[114,115],"Closed loop","A route where pallets return to the sender after delivery, so the empty trip is a standing cost.",[117,118],"Location quotient","A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. 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