SingPost launches eComm Log Hub
Singapore Post (SingPost) has officially launched its new regional e-commerce logistics hub. Known as the eComm Log Hub, the S$182m facility is located at the Tampines Logistics Park and is SingPost’s largest e-commerce logistics investment in Singapore to date.
The eComm Log Hub was officially opened today (1 November) by Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
The three-storey facility has two warehousing floors and 150 simultaneous loading bays as well as an office block. The ground floor of the building houses a fully automated parcel sorting facility with a capacity of up to 100,000 parcels a day, and end-to-end sorting, shipping and returns management capabilities that enable quicker order fulfilment. The total built-up area is 553,000 square feet.
In addition to the fully automated parcel sorting system on the first floor of the facility, the second floor warehouse is also automated.
The eComm Log Hub will process parcels for delivery within Singapore and those to be shipped to destinations worldwide.
Simon Israel, SingPost’s Chairman, commented: “The opening of our Regional eCommerce Logistics Hub is another milestone in the expansion of SingPost’s eCommerce logistics network, which now spans 19 markets across Asia Pacific, Europe and the US. Singapore’s regional connectivity makes it ideally positioned to be a centre for eCommerce. Our Regional eCommerce Logistics Hub leverages on this geographic and infrastructural advantage. Everything in this building is scalable, which means we can keep upgrading it to meet the needs of the future.”
Israel added: “With the Regional eCommerce Logistics Hub, our POPStation network and our investments into technologies for new postal and logistics solutions, we are prepared for a sustainable future of car-lite cities and the sharing economy. SingPost is therefore able to shape and play a broader role in how urban logistics is done in Singapore.”
SingPost will also officially launched its Centre of Innovation (COI) at today’s ceremony.
The COI was set up in August 2015, with support from the Economic Development Board, to carry out research into new logistics and postal services and products, in collaboration with research institutions and institutions of higher learning.
Emphasis will be placed on new technologies such as robotics and automation to meet the needs of future customers and markets as well as becoming the tools for SingPost’s next generation of employees.
Some initiatives now being carried out by the SingPost COI include: developing the e-commerce platform; working on the “digital transformation” of the post office; and innovating in the last mile delivery sector, through building the next generation of POPStations and experimenting with drone delivery across the island.
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