Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Miami

Miami, by road

PortMiami, Port Everglades and the airport pull freight onto I-95 and the Florida Turnpike. The Miami area sits in Florida, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Grocery and related product wholesale is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.7 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 131 establishments between them. Miami (33178) leads with 39, 29.8 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Miami-Dade County has 13,042 warehousing jobs, 59.0 percent of the 22,104 in the Miami area.
• Broward County has 5,677 warehousing jobs, 25.7 percent of the 22,104 in the Miami area, 7,365 fewer than Miami-Dade.
• Palm Beach County has 3,385 warehousing jobs, 15.3 percent of the 22,104 in the Miami area, 9,657 fewer than Miami-Dade.
• Miami (33172) has 14 fewer warehousing establishments than Miami (33178), 25 against 39.
• Miami (33122) has 15 fewer warehousing establishments than Miami (33178), 24 against 39.
• Pompano Beach (33069) has 17 fewer warehousing establishments than Miami (33178), 22 against 39.
• Miami (33166) has 18 fewer warehousing establishments than Miami (33178), 21 against 39.
• Miami-Dade County's 13,042 is 12.4 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• Broward County's 5,677 is 5.4 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• Palm Beach County's 3,385 is 3.2 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• ZIP 33178 in Miami ranks number 1 of the five, with 39 warehousing establishments, 29.8 percent of their combined total and 1.86 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33172 in Miami ranks number 2 of the five, with 25 warehousing establishments, 19.1 percent of their combined total and 1.19 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33122 in Miami ranks number 3 of the five, with 24 warehousing establishments, 18.3 percent of their combined total and 1.14 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33069 in Pompano Beach ranks number 4 of the five, with 22 warehousing establishments, 16.8 percent of their combined total and 1.05 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33166 in Miami ranks number 5 of the five, with 21 warehousing establishments, 16.0 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 27,032 in the area, 1.22 for every warehousing job.
• Warehousing and storage employs 22,104 in the area, 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Florida's warehousing and storage employment, 105,401, is 4.77 times the Miami area's warehousing jobs.
• Florida's grocery and related product wholesale employment, 63,967, is 2.89 times the Miami area's warehousing jobs.
• Orlando, also in Florida, has 13,928 warehousing jobs, 0.63 times Miami's.
• Jacksonville, also in Florida, has 15,384 warehousing jobs, 0.70 times Miami's.
• Tampa, also in Florida, has 13,205 warehousing jobs, 0.60 times Miami's.

Who ships pallets here

In Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, grocery and related product wholesale employs 27,032. Wholesalers handle mixed cases and rewrap often, so they ask about deck type first and whether the pallet nests when it goes back. It tends to lean on nestable and stackable in the common footprint, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about static load for mixed stacks and whether the deck is open or closed.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 131 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Miami sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 157,200 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

In its state

Among the 4 metros of Florida that have a page here, Miami ranks number 1 by warehousing jobs.

Miami holds 21.0 percent of Florida's 105,401 private warehousing jobs. See the Florida page for the whole state.

Other metros in Florida with their own page: Orlando, Jacksonville and Tampa.

Interstates serving the area: I-95.

Words on this page

One-way pallet

A light pallet built to carry cargo to a destination and stay there, often used in export.

GMA pallet

The 48 by 40 inch North American standard, named for the Grocery Manufacturers Association that popularised it.

Cross-docking

Moving freight from an inbound truck to an outbound one with little or no storage between.

ISPM 15

An international standard on treating and marking wood packaging material. Plastic is outside it.

Commodity class

A fire-protection category for stored goods and their pallets, used to design sprinkler systems.

Interstate corridor

A freight route named for its highway, together with the metros along it.

Open deck

A deck with slots or a grid, which drains water, sheds dust and weighs less than a solid one.

Slip sheet

A thin sheet of plastic or fibreboard used under a load in place of a pallet, handled by a push-pull attachment.

CP9

A chemical industry pallet standard, 1140 by 1140 millimetres, about 45 by 45 inches.