Dallas, TX

Dallas is distinctive because its intermodal container traffic is concentrated in several enormous inland rail and logistics complexes rather than around a seaport. The region is served by major BNSF and Union Pacific facilities, including the massive Alliance intermodal complex and the Dallas Intermodal Terminal. Alliance alone handles international 20ft, 40ft, and 45ft marine containers and does over one-million container and trailer lifts a year, which provides a significant quantity of used shipping containers available for purchase in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Dallas also sits at an important intersection between international trade, cross-border freight, rail transportation, trucking, and one of the country’s largest concentrations of warehouses and distribution centers. Large volumes of international containers can arrive by long-distance rail, be unloaded at Dallas-area intermodal terminals, and then move by truck to distribution facilities throughout the region. The combination of exceptionally large rail terminals, extensive container storage capacity, and heavy international freight flows makes Dallas an important inland market for 20ft, 40ft, and 40ft high-cube container movement and used shipping-container availability.