Fort Lauderdale's yachting, cruise, and tourism economy runs on a steady flow of packaged goods and provisioned supplies behind the scenes. We supply the case-packing and palletizing equipment that keeps that supply chain moving.
Fort Lauderdale's yachting, cruise, and tourism economy runs on a steady flow of packaged goods and provisioned supplies behind the scenes. We supply the case-packing and palletizing equipment that keeps that supply chain moving.
Nearly four million cruise passengers pass through Port Everglades every year. That makes it the third-busiest cruise port in the world. Fort Lauderdale backs that up with a genuine yachting economy of its own: more than 50,000 registered yachts, about 100 marinas and boatyards, and a home-port fleet of roughly 42,000 vessels have earned the city its 'yachting capital' name. That much tourism volume creates packaging automation demand long before any of it reaches a marina or cruise terminal. The boating industry accounts for over 109,000 jobs in Broward County, and the annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, the biggest boat show there is, draws more than 125,000 visitors each year. Marine manufacturing and maintenance sit alongside finance, insurance, real estate, high technology, and avionics and aerospace work in a genuinely diversified local economy.
A cruise terminal and a marina concession stand both need product palletized long before it reaches a galley or a dock. PackMaster cobot palletizers handle that load, stacking and wrapping finished pallets at the pace cruise-port provisioning runs on. Case packers and erectors handle the corrugated side, building and sealing cases fast enough for that same supply chain, without adding shift labor in a market where hospitality wages already compete hard. Every case still has to move fast. You know how much product a provisioning run needs on short notice; we keep the case-packing and palletizing line fast enough to match. Our case study on a co-packer automating its packaging line shows how a similar operation scales. Our Florida location page and palletizing category page map where else we work across the region. Our VFFS packaging machine and automatic case packer category pages break out specs on individual machines. Our solutions page covers what that process looks like in practice. We're not headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, but Broward County suppliers and distributors deal with us directly, from spec through installed, supported equipment.


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