Unlike a conventional warehouse built for stock-holding, a consolidation center is designed for throughput: inbound shipments from multiple shippers are briefly collected, sorted by destination, combined into full loads, and dispatched onward.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_consolidation
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