Parcel delivery startup Gofo on Friday opened its first U.S. super hub in Newark, New Jersey. A second large sortation center is scheduled to begin operating later this quarter in Los Angeles marking the company’s transition from a regional to a national courier.
Spanning more than 400,000 square feet, Newark is Gofo’s largest and most advanced U.S. facility. Equipped with cross-belt and narrow-belt sorters, robotic automation, and an intelligent logistics system, the hub processes more than 40,000 parcels per hour and can handle more than 700,000 parcels daily, the company said in a news release on Monday.
Fast-growing Gofo last month announced plans to invest $150 million in the two e-commerce distribution centers, giving it the infrastructure for middle-mile shipping and last-mile delivery of retailers’ e-commerce orders — and ensuring ample capacity for peak season surges. Funding covers long-term leases and facility upgrades, installation of advanced sorting technology and robotics systems, IT and data infrastructure enhancements, workforce recruitment, partner development and other launch activities, a spokesman said in an email exchange.
Gofo, headquartered in Los Angeles, is among a slew of independent last-mile logistics providers that cropped up after the pandemic e-commerce boom offering lower prices than FedEx and UPS, and powered by technology platforms for easily integrating with customers, dispatching drivers and optimizing route selection.
Gofo was founded in 2023 by Chuan Zheng, a U.S. citizen of Chinese heritage with extensive experience in logistics and cross-border e-commerce, who previously formed a company called Ebisu.
A significant share of historical volume has come from e-commerce merchants linked to China, but the U.S. business is rapidly expanding its presence among North American retailers and smaller online sellers. International parcels are customs cleared by partner companies, but the majority of shipments originate from U.S. domestic warehouses. The courier’s operations, leadership and decision-making are centered in the United States, the spokesman said.
Gofo has rapidly expanded its logistics foundation across the United States with nearly 100 hubs and stations supported by more than 30 linehaul routes. It currently has more than 1,000 full-time employees and uses delivery service partners to provide physical last-mile delivery. The company has yet to provide details about its driver pool.
The network now enables Gofo to serve 8,000 zip codes, equivalent to 70% of the U.S. population, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. By the end of 2025, the company expects to reach 10,000 zip codes, enabling 75% of client parcels to be delivered through its own network.
In August 2025, Gofo further accelerated its international expansion with the acquisition of Cirro Parcel, in France. The company also operates in the Netherlands and Italy.
Gofo delivers to 49 of the Top 50 U.S. metropolitan areas, offering next-day delivery around major hubs and three-to-five day delivery across states and regions.
“With Newark now online, Gofo can move goods faster, smarter, and more predictably than ever. From coast to coast, our clients can count on Gofo for faster transit times, lower costs, and greater reliability,” said Marshall Yuan, head of global strategy, in the news release.
There are still many unanswered questions about Gofo, including who are its investors and major brand users, and how it achieved a national footprint in two years that is nearly equivalent to super regional carrier OnTrac, which has been operating for more than three decades.
Veho upscales sorting capacity
Meanwhile, Veho, another last-mile delivery company expanding its U.S. footprint, announced last week the opening of a 150,000 square-foot regional distribution center outside Atlanta that is able to process five times as many e-commerce parcels as its previous regional hub.
The new automated facility, located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is three times larger and has 32 dock doors, up from just eight in the previous facility, enabling Veho to handle spikes in shipments during the peak holiday season. The sortation center previously was used by Pandion, the delivery startup that went out of business in January, according to a LinkedIn post from Veho co-founder Fred Cook.
Veho signed a lease to occupy the facility for more than three years, spokesman Evan Wagner said.
It will serve as a hub for the courier, which relies on 85,000 crowdsourced drivers and a tech platform to match them to packages for delivery, in the Southeast and enable e-commerce brands to inject parcels for delivery to customers across the United States.
Parcel volumes moved through its network have doubled so far this year, thanks in part to a significant increase in new clients, compared to peak season last year, according to the company.
Last month, Veho expanded its delivery footprint to Southern California. Veho’s network now covers 38% of the U.S. population in 56 markets.
(Correction: The spelling of Gofo owner Chuan Zheng was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.)
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