Freight Waves

JULY 8, 2025

It also invested in 58 additional automated sorting machines across multiple countries. The facility is equipped with advanced sorting technologies, including cross-belt sorters for inbound and outbound shipments, tilt-tray sorters, high-speed unloading wheels, smart scanners, and security scanners. China is J&T’s largest market.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

At the end of last year, Collo-X , an innovative company based in the Netherlands, launched a new sorting system: the MicroSorter. This compact sorting system is capable of sorting up to 1,500 products per hour per unit, with a maximum number of outputs in a very small area.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The company’s robots are used to pick, pack, and sort items in warehouses and fulfillment centers. Key Takeaways: Thriving in an Omnichannel World with Akash Gupta GreyOrange is a robotics company that provides automated fulfillment solutions for ecommerce and retail businesses.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 18, 2025

But at the same time, a travel stop doesn’t have the sort of trucking capacity found at Outpost. We sort of work with our customers to understand what their needs may be in any given market at any given time, and that sort of work backwards from there,” Cameron said. But needed equipment or materials can be stored there. “We

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this context, the Tunisian Post, a member of the UPU since 1878, has selected ISITEC International’s intelligent incoming and outgoing parcel sorting solution to equip its international e-commerce logistics platform, Ecom@Africa, through a tender process.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 11, 2025

Daniel Avram, senior director of advanced software with Savoye North America, helps us sort through them. There's an alphabet soup of software systems for running warehouses WES, WMS and WCS among them.

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Operations Sorting 92

Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Import sorting Managing Director of Ramp and Gateways Operations for Northern Europe, Alun Cornish, has been with the company for 20 years. The import sort facility is adjacent to the airside apron at Stansted, with ULD (unit load device) air containers fed directly on to a castor floor. The tour started with the customs hold ‘cage’.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Originating at China’s Nanjing University in 1993 as a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day, Singles’ Day is celebrated by unmarried people in China on the 11th November. Also, at particularly busy times such as the period around Singles’ Day, additional sorting chutes can be added to cope with very high traffic sorting demands.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps more than any other warehouse systems, sorters are also among the most time-tested and multi-faceted solutions in use today.

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Sorting 111

Freight Waves

JULY 2, 2025

And pre-sort volumes from large customers have declined 22% over the same period to 33.2 Network overhaul Historically, service standards and network development have revolved around letter mail. Over the last 30 years, single-piece First-Class mail has declined by more than 80% — from 57 billion pieces in 1997 to 11.7

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Companies from around the world introduced solutions leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics to improve sorting, handling, and warehousing processes. This solution addresses the rising demand for faster and more accurate parcel sorting, particularly within e-commerce and postal sorting centers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 10, 2023

Unlike traditional methods, Pollen does not require overhead costs such as drivers, rented space, or sort centers. Pollen requires no overhead like drivers, rented space in a retail location, or sort centers. With its patented technology, Pollen is transforming returns from a cost to a profit center for retailers.

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Conger

JULY 1, 2025

This automated sorting dramatically reduces the need for employees to manually read labels and move items, which in turn reduces errors and workplace strain. This automated sorting dramatically reduces the need for employees to manually read labels and move items, which in turn reduces errors and workplace strain.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These systems can decouple picking from order fulfillment by storing items in dynamic buffers, then sorting them into desired sequences through matrix sortation. Beyond sorting, the pouch system enables dynamic buffering, which allows returned items to be quickly reintegrated into inventory after quality checks.

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Food Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Industry experts offer hope to a return to normalcy in the supply chain space, but it will be a new normal of sorts and be quite the bumpy ride in getting there.

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Freight Waves

JULY 3, 2025

The goal is to increase efficiency by consolidating parcel sorting in common facilities and having a single van deliver parcels to neighborhoods rather than different vans crisscrossing the same area multiple times per day. FedEx this year is ramping up the rollout of its Network 2.0

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Even in normal times, transportation professionals have their hands full dealing with all sorts of exceptions and disruptions. The current COVID-19 pandemic is further magnifying those challenges.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2023

From humble beginnings out of high school sorting BOLs in a mailroom, he pursued knowledge relentlessly and earned his college degree, and advancing his career. With extensive expertise in parcel and freight bill auditing, payment, business intelligence, and associated technologies, he offers valuable insights to the supply chain industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This synergy enables optimised delivery routes, minimises sorting and delivery errors, and provides real-time alerts for any disruptions. By incorporating RFID-enabled labels and automated sensors, UPS has reduced sorting and delivery errors, ensuring parcels are accurately tracked and delivered, optimising routes, and minimising costs.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 18, 2025

No suggestion of a new role for OTR Whatever provisions were in the recent agreement between DAT and OTR, it does not appear OTR will have any sort of special presence on the DAT load board as it did before the Outgo acquisition.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In warehouse environments, AI-powered robotics and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are revolutionizing order fulfillment processes by handling tasks such as picking, packing, and sorting with unmatched efficiency.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 13, 2025

Treasury checks from mail sorting machines. Postal Service mail processing clerks at the Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center, reportedly stole thousands of envelopes containing U.S. The checks were then allegedly sold to two other defendants.

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Sorting Security Distribution Operations 101

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 11, 2025

Warehouse Robotics: Systematic Redesign of Core Functions Warehouse operations have historically relied on manual labor for tasks such as picking, sorting, inventory management, and material handling. Robots such as Amazon’s Proteus help in sorting and transporting items within distribution centers.

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Overdrive Online

MARCH 29, 2021

Yet failure to effectively plan for the change can be its own Achilles Heel of sorts. History is rich with companies that worked tirelessly to save their sinking ship rather than change when the need became inevitable.

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Sorting 129

Freight Waves

JUNE 25, 2025

In May, FedEx opened a new automated sorting facility in Brest, France, to provide more package delivery capacity for northern Brittany. The tool uses generative AI to help companies enter accurate details about their shipment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2025

Third-Party Logistics (3PL) AMRs provide flexibility during seasonal peaks, handling picking, sorting, or replenishment tasks. Both AGVs and AMRs support secure, temperature-controlled handling of sensitive materials. AGVs are used for repetitive movements along stable paths, such as from inbound docks to storage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Companies will become increasingly dependent on digital tools to sort, track, and mitigate issues at the border. As the demand sees no end and trade wars wage on, the future of the supply chain will not come without hiccups. As the holiday season continues it will be interesting to see what unfolds and return here for more news.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 28, 2021

degrees of global warming within reach, reduce coal use, sort out rules for a global carbon market and raise billions in climate finance. The aim of COP — the acronym for the conference of parties that’s now in its 26th round — is to curb emissions, keep the goal of 1.5

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Logistics Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There will be no merger, acquisition or combination of any sort involving Yellow Corp. and any of its rival less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers. That’s the final word on that from none other than Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins, who says he has enough going on within his $5 billion company.

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Sorting 124

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2021

There’s something about being outside in the cold, surrounded by snow and woods, that brings out all sorts of ideas in me. I asked myself that question while cross country skiing many years ago. That crazy idea. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 29, 2021).

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 7, 2024

Out of 8,000 consumers surveyed, 63% said they took some sort of negative action after encountering delivery problems.

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Sorting Survey 115

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2024

Women who sorted resin for the Somaliland supplier claimed that they would work 12-hour days, six days a week, in facilities with no toilets or running water.

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Sorting 105

Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Companies like UPS are addressing these challenges by incorporating machine learning into package sorting and route planning, cutting costs and improving workflow efficiency. Inefficiencies due to these legacy systems reportedly cost the logistics sector over £1.88 billion annually.

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3PL Insights

MAY 16, 2025

3PLs equipped with the right infrastructure and technology can process returns quickly, inspect and sort items efficiently, and determine the most profitable disposition path whether that’s resale, refurbishment, or recycling. Managing these returns in-house can be time-consuming and expensive.

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Bulk Connection

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From phones to trash cans to soda bottles, all sorts of everyday items start out as plastic pellets transported in pneumatic trailers. These pellets, also known as resin or nurdles, are foundational materials for countless products and industries. In some ways, bulk plastic shipping is a lot like shipping any other dry bulk commodity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As I stated back in 2019, I found the partnership with Kindred and the integration with Kindred Sort particularly interesting. There I learned about the company’s partnerships with automation vendors and the forthcoming Manhattan Automation Network certification.

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Freight Waves

JULY 1, 2025

When they end up at the UPS hub, they are sorted from the package flow and sent to a local Postal Service facility for reprocessing and distribution. Hazmat shipments are supposed to be sent to FedEx or moved by surface transportation.

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