This will help overcome the inefficiencies of manually sorting differently-sized parcels at two separate facilities, says Goh Chee Hiong, vice-president of operations at SingPost. Previously, letters and smaller parcels were sorted at the SingPost Centre at Paya Lebar, while large parcels were sorted at Tampines.
Singapore Post’s $30 million sorting facility, meant to help the company capture new growth in regional e-commerce logistics, is in business. Besides eking out operational efficiencies, SingPost will also have more elbow room to extract value from its floor spaces.
The automated parcel sortation equipment in this facility, which is at Tampines, will triple SingPost’s small- and medium-parcel processing capacity to 300,000 parcels per day, which, along with its existing large-parcel operations, will mean a combined throughput capacity of 400,000 parcels per day.
