Conveyor New Concept for Parcel Logistics in Air Transport

Parcel logistics is characterized by transport performance steep increase and current performance reachs 20 000 parcels an hour. In the company DHL anticipates increase in 50 000 parcels an hour. It is one possibility how manage it. They are transport systems with new conception of functional structure. The contribution introduces groundbreaking concept of conveyor – peristaltical conveyor. It was produced in Frauenhofer-Institut IFF Magdeburg and Institute of Logistics and Material Handling Systems Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg.