The South Carolina side: York, Lancaster and Chester counties

South of the line

York County has a labor force of 154,138, with logistics and transportation at 7.7 percent of employment and production at 6.8 percent (source). Chester County lists plastics, upstream metal manufacturing, upstream chemical products and wood products among its industry clusters (source). Lancaster County lists nutritional supplements, tire manufacturing and metal mining.

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Rock Hill and Fort Mill

Rock Hill and Fort Mill sit on I-77 within reach of Charlotte's south side, and they are part of our home ground. The industries there are manufacturing, equipment rental and automotive. Rock Hill and Fort Mill each have a page.

Chester County and plastics

Chester County is one of two plastics clusters we write about, with Rowan County on the other side of the line. A compounder here and a compounder in Rowan County are the same kind of buyer, and the same octabin fits both. See the resin and regrind page.

Coverage terms

Pages describe the region without promising coverage terms. Send your ZIP and we answer for your dock, in either state.

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Send your ZIP, the count and the footprint. A South Carolina request takes the same form as a North Carolina one, and it is how a stack in Chester County ends up with a buyer in Rowan.

Three counties and four cities

The South Carolina counties are York, Lancaster and Chester. York has four city pages, which are Rock Hill, Fort Mill, York and Clover. Lancaster and Chester each have one, named for the county seat. Together they cover the I-77 corridor south from the state line, the US 521 road through Lancaster and the US 321 road through York.

What is special about this side

The industry mix leans toward machinery, automotive parts, plastics, glass, tires, paper and supplements, with e-commerce distribution near the line. That means heavier boxes with full flap bottoms are common in York and Chester, lined boxes appear in Lancaster, and clean single trip stacks come from the distribution docks in Clover and Fort Mill. The region data lists the employers by name on each city page.

The South Carolina counties

• York County, SCI-77Production technology and heavy machinery, automotive, distribution and electronic commerce. Cities: Rock Hill, Fort Mill, York, Clover.
• Lancaster County, SCUS 521Metal mining, business services, tire manufacturing. Cities: Lancaster.
• Chester County, SCI-77Plastics, upstream metal manufacturing, vulcanized and fired materials. Cities: Chester.

How to read this side

South Carolina is the smaller side of the region, with three counties along I-77 and US 521 and four York County cities on the Charlotte side of the line. Docks here sell and buy in the same footprints and wall counts as North Carolina docks, and the request form takes the same ZIP and the same details. Open the county that holds your dock, read its cities, and look at the neighbors on the other side of the line, because a stack just across the line may match a buyer in Mecklenburg or Gaston.

Facts from the South Carolina side

• The Charlotte region is served by two major railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern, and four major interstates. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance gives the 15-county region's labor force as 1,536,696. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• The Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia metropolitan area had 2,595,027 people at the 2020 Census and spans Anson, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan and Union counties in North Carolina and Chester, Lancaster and York counties in South Carolina. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• Charlotte is a hub on Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor intermodal network, which runs from New Jersey to Memphis and New Orleans. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• About 89,000 people work in logistics and distribution in the Charlotte region, including 35,000 in truck driving occupations and 27,000 in warehousing. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• Three East Coast ports (Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah) are within 250 miles of Charlotte, which also has an inland port. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• Norfolk Southern built a $92 million intermodal terminal on 200 acres between two runways at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, designed for 200,000 lifts a year and replacing a 40-acre downtown facility. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.
• Charlotte's metro area is described as the largest manufacturing region in the Carolinas. Source, retrieved November 11, 2026.

Questions from the dock

Which South Carolina counties do you cover?

York, Lancaster and Chester.

Do you serve Rock Hill and Fort Mill?

They are part of our home ground. Send your ZIP and we describe how a request would run.

Is there plastics business in South Carolina?

Chester County lists plastics among its industry clusters, with resin and regrind as typical loads.