Freight forwarders and third-party logistics providers use cross-dock freight consolidation to combine partial loads from multiple consignors at a cross-dock facility, sort them by destination, and dispatch a single consolidated shipment—without any meaningful storage in between.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-docking
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