Parker Commercial Storage and Distribution, Inc. provides to many customers a variety of options in regards to the requests of each customer.

Millions upon millions of pounds of tobacco, domestic and foreign quality leaf have passed through the Parker Warehouse facility. Offshore cigarette customers utilize our U.S. Customs Bonded Warehouse for several reasons. Duty is deferred until the cigarettes are shipped from the port warehouse; secondly Louisville’s excellent location permits quicker delivery response to their customers, and thirdly, the service that we provide is second to none. Picking and sorting is a definite requirement.

Liquor of many various shapes and sizes are an ongoing commodity that requires, from time to time, various handling needs.

Automotive parts arrive on a daily basis and are basically on J.I.T. schedule. Furniture arrives, either fully created or mangled, throughout the container. Heavy or light, doesn’t matter the job gets done on a timely basis.

Personal effects are the most fun. You know what people find overseas.

Rubber to tires, machine parts to screws and nuts, airplanes to motorbikes, basically anything to everything, is imported and inspected by U.S. Customs.

Export Logs = Parker, in the year of 1986, designed the Parker Pak Log Loader where the time to load overseas container was cut to a two-man operation, (from 3 men) and the manhours were cut from 8.5 manhours to half or less, depending upon the type and size of the logs. Our in-house workshop provides the necessary means to design and develop various machines and attachments to increase overall productivity. We never say no to the customer, or haven’t yet. We will always find a proper and safe way to accommodate the customer.

Federal, State, and Government contracts are always performed with the proper attitude where verifying and providing proper documentation, and maintaining complete and accurate information and control is sometimes tedious, but it’s also rewarding. Someone had to do it, and we do our very best to satisfy everyone concerned.

Transloading product is one of our specialties, either from container to trucks, or from van to van, or from railcar to van to rail. We can do it all.

The U.S. Customs Port of Louisville is located at the Parker facility and has been since 1987. The U.S. Customs Container Freight Station and Exam Station allows importers to direct their entire container loads of products to Louisville, Kentucky, bypassing the seaports, which saves tremendous amounts of money and valuable time.

Location, location, location! – Is a key ingredient for customers to utilize our facility. Door to door rates are quoted, so to not create confusion, and is an inexpensive way to ship product. Since Kentucky is so centralized in the U.S., this allows for lower transportation costs to their customers on a more timely basis.

Product arrives to our facility in many configurations to occupy the entire container space. Seventy percent of all imported product arrives floor loaded, it is then placed on pallets, which are either shipped out on pallets or reloaded in original form on the floor. Much of the product is palletized and shrink-wrapped. We provide, if needed: stenciling, repacking, pick and pull, assembly, recount and inventory maintenance.

Our service is second to none, where quality handling is considered mandatory, but also it is just good management pride.

Louisville, Kentucky, being located centrally within the United States, enhances our facility and provides a safe and secure area for logistics companies to park full or empty trailers. The procedures for complete log in and out verifies the entire inventory control and provides a great savings to the companies who require these services.