Royal Mail opens state-of-the-art automated Super Hub in Daventry

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Royal Mail has opened its state-of-the-art Midlands Super Hub in Daventry, UK, marking the event with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, a special performance and a visit by the local member of parliament.

The 21.5ha site – the equivalent of 30 soccer pitches – is now Royal Mail’s largest automated parcels facility. It can process up to 90,000 items an hour, with each parcel taking just seven minutes to pass through the sorting machines. With its sister Super Hub in the North West, it gives Royal Mail business an interconnected, market-leading parcels network that stretches right across the UK.

Royal Mail’s chief operations officer, Grant McPherson, said, “This is a very exciting time for Royal Mail. The opening of this Super Hub is a key part of our journey to revolutionize our parcels business.

“We’ve now created a state-of-the-art network of Super Hubs that processes parcels at incredible speeds, has the transport links to ship them efficiently across the UK, and fulfills the needs of our customers for a reliable parcels business that will deliver for them the next day, every day of the week. It’s truly an investment in the future and puts us on track to meet our mission to reduce our carbon emissions.”

The new facility was built from the ground up with the environment in mind. The building is energy efficient, harvests rainwater and generates its own solar electricity. It is on the doorstep of several of the nation’s major online retailers, allowing these companies to drop off parcels at the latest-possible time for next-day delivery.

One of the site’s major features is its integrated rail link and dedicated Royal Mail train connecting the Super Hub to the West Coast Mainline, Britain’s primary rail route. It runs from the hub to the firm’s Scottish distribution center near Glasgow.

The use of the train will take up to 16 Royal Mail trucks off the road every day, more than 3,000 a year. All of this contributes to Royal Mail’s Steps to Zero campaign – a drive to reduce the business’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2040.

Combined with Royal Mail’s other operations, the Super Hub will contribute to efforts ongoing locally and nationally to drive quality across the board and give customers a consistently reliable service.

FACTS:

The entire site is 21.5ha – the equivalent of 30 soccer pitches
120,000 tons of concrete were used in the construction of the site
The volume of the unit is 1.3 million cubic meters – large enough for 14 jumbo jets
The steel frame of the unit weighs 4,500 tons
235 million parcels will pass through the hub each year, up to 90k per hour
There will be 1,600 vehicles in and out of the hub daily
The site is next to the warehouses and fulfillment centers of several major online retailers

[daveyeff]

Fact:- they've got no money.!!

[ConeHater]

Fact - It broke down within a few hours of the Grand Opening.

Fact - The bay doors cannot accommodate 17tonne trucks.

Fact. - Only 1 train has so far been secured.

Fact. - The list of customers whose parcels cannot pass through the hub is growing every day, including Decathlon, World Of Books, Gin Tasting Club.

Fact. - Staff are required to be at their workstation at the start of their shift, so need to be walking through door 20mins early.

[SpacePhoenix]

Fact - The bay doors cannot accommodate 17tonne trucks.

Are all the bay doors designed for use by double stacker artics only?

[Mr Rush]

120,000 tons of concrete were used in the construction of the site

Very green indeed! Probably released more CO2 mixing that concrete than would be saved axing the mail flights.

[ConeHater]

Fact - The bay doors cannot accommodate 17tonne trucks.

Are all the bay doors designed for use by double stacker artics only?

Problem probably with dock levellers. When NDC opened they couldn’t put 17t’s on building as lip of dock levellers too wide, had to have corners cut at angle. Obviously the same has happened again, the incompetent fools !