Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Tampa

Tampa, by road

I-4, I-75 and I-275 meet at Tampa Bay, and Port Tampa Bay handles bulk and containers. The Tampa area sits in Florida, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 0.7 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Pinellas, Hernando, Hillsborough and Pasco counties.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 46 establishments between them. Tampa (33619) leads with 16, 34.8 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Hillsborough County has 12,216 warehousing jobs, 92.5 percent of the 13,205 in the Tampa area.
• Pinellas County has 989 warehousing jobs, 7.5 percent of the 13,205 in the Tampa area, 11,227 fewer than Hillsborough.
• Tampa (33610) has 4 fewer warehousing establishments than Tampa (33619), 12 against 16.
• Tampa (33605) has 9 fewer warehousing establishments than Tampa (33619), 7 against 16.
• Tampa (33634) has 10 fewer warehousing establishments than Tampa (33619), 6 against 16.
• Largo (33773) has 11 fewer warehousing establishments than Tampa (33619), 5 against 16.
• Hillsborough County's 12,216 is 11.6 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• Pinellas County's 989 is 0.9 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• ZIP 33619 in Tampa ranks number 1 of the five, with 16 warehousing establishments, 34.8 percent of their combined total and 3.20 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33610 in Tampa ranks number 2 of the five, with 12 warehousing establishments, 26.1 percent of their combined total and 2.40 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33605 in Tampa ranks number 3 of the five, with 7 warehousing establishments, 15.2 percent of their combined total and 1.40 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33634 in Tampa ranks number 4 of the five, with 6 warehousing establishments, 13.0 percent of their combined total and 1.20 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 33773 in Largo ranks number 5 of the five, with 5 warehousing establishments, 10.9 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 13,205 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 7,977 in the area, 0.60 for every warehousing job.
• Florida's warehousing and storage employment, 105,401, is 7.98 times the Tampa area's warehousing jobs.
• Florida's grocery and related product wholesale employment, 63,967, is 4.84 times the Tampa area's warehousing jobs.
• Miami, also in Florida, has 22,104 warehousing jobs, 1.67 times Tampa's.
• Orlando, also in Florida, has 13,928 warehousing jobs, 1.05 times Tampa's.
• Jacksonville, also in Florida, has 15,384 warehousing jobs, 1.17 times Tampa's.

Who ships pallets here

In Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, warehousing and storage employs 13,205 (a partial count). Racks decide the order of questions: a pallet that sits on beams needs a racking load that matches the span, and a floor-stacked pallet needs a static load that matches the bottom of the stack. It tends to lean on rackable where the pallet lives on beams, stackable for block stacking, nestable for the empties that go back, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the racking load, and the beam span it was rated on.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 46 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Tampa sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 55,200 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, Tampa ranks number 4 by warehousing jobs.

Tampa holds 12.5 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: Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville.

Interstates serving the area: I-75.

Words on this page

Cross-docking

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

Recycled content

The share of a pallet moulded from reground plastic. Makers print it as a range, often by colour.

Interstate corridor

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

Nest increment

The extra height each additional empty pallet adds to a nested stack, measured in inches. A small increment means a short stack.

Open deck

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

2-way entry

A pallet that can be lifted from only two opposite sides.

Cube utilisation

How well loaded freight fills the volume of a trailer or container. Taller or wider-than-floor pallets waste cube.

ZIP Code Business Patterns

A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.

Location quotient

A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. Above 1 means the trade is more concentrated there than average.