When inbound shipments from several regions arrive at a central hub, are sorted immediately, and transferred directly onto outbound vehicles serving other regions – all without entering storage – the operation is described as interregional cross-docking.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_docking
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