Metropolitan Logistics offers expert onsite crating and export packaging services across Canada, delivering custom, export-ready solutions directly to your facility, warehouse, or job site. Ideal for industrial machinery, medical equipment, electronics, and retail fixtures — without the need to transport cargo offsite.
From industrial machinery and medical equipment to sensitive electronics and retail fixtures, we build custom export-ready solutions tailored to your cargo — right where you need it.
Our crating and packaging solutions go far beyond simple wood boxes. Each project includes a range of professional protections and logistical options designed for heavy-duty industrial machinery, export compliance, and safe final delivery — whether local or international.
We provide nationwide onsite crating services, including:
Have a time-critical or remote job site? We’ll make it work.
Our onsite packaging division supports logistics for:
Our mobile crating team works closely with engineering firms to secure sensitive prototypes, custom-built systems, and oversized components for safe national or international transit.
We coordinate with rigging and crane operators during heavy equipment moves, providing custom crating and on-the-spot securing solutions for safe handling during lifting and transport.
For exhibit houses and event planners, we build protective crates for booths, displays, and AV setups — making them show-ready and compliant for global shipping.
We assist Canadian exporters and distributors by packaging palletized or irregular freight directly at warehouses or shipping docks, ready for ocean or air export with full documentation.
During factory or facility relocations, our team ensures all high-value assets, tools, and systems are professionally crated on-site to prevent damage and streamline reassembly at the destination.
Let us come to you — with everything needed to pack, protect, and prepare your shipment for the world.
Call 1 (365) 829-5000 or 📩 Request an Onsite Quote
Onsite crating is the process of building custom wooden export crates at your facility or job site instead of transporting goods to an offsite packaging warehouse. This service is ideal for businesses shipping industrial machinery, sensitive electronics, or heavy equipment that is difficult or expensive to move prior to crating. By choosing onsite export packaging, you save time, reduce risk of damage, and streamline logistics.
Yes. All crates built by Metropolitan Logistics are ISPM-15 certified for international export, ensuring compliance with global shipping regulations. Our team uses heat-treated lumber, applies proper crate labeling, and provides packing lists and documentation required for customs clearance. Whether you’re exporting from Canada to the U.S., Europe, Asia, or elsewhere, your freight will meet all requirements.
We handle a wide range of freight for onsite crating, including:
Heavy industrial equipment
Medical devices and lab instruments
High-value electronics and servers
Retail displays and fragile goods
Hazardous materials (with MSDS)
Oversized and irregular freight
Our mobile teams bring the tools, lumber, fasteners, and expertise needed to safely pack any cargo on-site.
Absolutely. We offer bundled crating and freight forwarding services across Canada and worldwide. After crating your cargo at your site, we can handle container loading, port delivery, customs brokerage, and air/ocean/ground shipping. It’s a seamless end-to-end logistics solution, ideal for exporters, manufacturers, and international projects.
In most regions, we can schedule onsite export packaging within 24–48 hours, depending on crew availability and job size. We offer rapid dispatch in major areas including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Halifax, as well as coverage in smaller cities by request.
No. Our onsite crating crews are fully mobile and self-sufficient. We arrive with cordless tools, certified lumber, and everything required to complete the job. Whether it’s a warehouse, construction site, or outdoor job location — we adapt to your environment.
Yes. We support multi-day crating jobs, high-volume packaging, and project-based work. Whether you’re relocating a manufacturing line, staging an exhibit, or preparing dozens of pallets for export, we assign dedicated project managers and scale resources as needed.
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