When it comes to packing and crating your valuables, Craters & Freighters of Connecticut is unsurpassed in care and quality. From the pickup of your items in our trucks, all equipped with blankets and straps, to the arrival of your goods at destination, there is nothing more important that the packing and crating component of a shipment.

Packing Materials

We maintain extensive inventories of packing supplies including boxes, protective wrappings, crate lining materials, soft foams, securement supplies, barrier bags, desiccant materials, special crate hardware, and many other items.

Custom Skids

We can manufacture pallets and skids to any size and quantity required. Whether you're shipping the family bedroom set or a 20-ton manufacturing machine, we've built a crate for it many times over. And we provide additional services including barrier bagging, stretch wrapping, banding, blocking and bracing.

Corrugated Crates

We make our own corrugated crates, custom-sized to surround your items and provide good protection from incidental damage. And we custom-fit pallets to provide efficient handling after the shipment leaves our dock.

Wooden Crates

Wood crates come in many styles and infinite sizes suitable for the goods being shipped. We make our own, so that you can be assured of excellent quality control in the manufacturing process, and appropriate design and structural integrity. You don't have to look elsewhere for wooden crates suitable for very large and heavy items. We do the engineering in house and build them here, too.

Specialty Services

Whether you need stretch wrapping, barrier bagging, floating base crates, oversized picture crates, engineering services, or ocean container loading, blocking and bracing, we are the one-stop source for all these services - and more. We also work with a number of rigging companies to provide extra muscle, where needed, for very large and very heavy items.