{"id":22309,"date":"2023-03-21T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=22309"},"modified":"2023-03-21T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:44:39","slug":"amazon-opens-logistics-centre-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/21\/amazon-opens-logistics-centre-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon opens logistics centre in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nAmazon opened a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/02\/09\/amazon-to-provide-retail-and-logistics-training-in-saudi-arabia\/\">logistics<\/a> facility in Dubai on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Logistics District in Dubai South, the centre has a storage capacity of 2.1 million cubic feet spread across 350,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>This is expected to increase Amazon\u2019s total storage capacity in the UAE by 70 per cent, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo Mouchawar, Vice President of Amazon Mena, said: \u201cAt Amazon, we continue to emphasise our focus on providing the best and fastest selection of products to our customers in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Fulfilment centres have a ripple effect across the economy, contributing significantly to the growth of e-commerce sales, building capacity and accelerating entrepreneurship by allowing sellers and start-ups to leverage Amazon\u2019s world-class fulfilment offerings to reach more customers with a wider selection of products.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we continue to invest in building the UAE\u2019s talent capabilities, creating diverse career paths in an industry-leading workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon currently has three fulfilment centres in the UAE, apart from three sort centres, eight delivery stations and a network of small and medium businesses working as delivery service partners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the opening of this facility, we are geared up to offer even more products to more customers during the busy time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/10\/amazon-egypt-announces-ramadan-sales\/\">Ramadan<\/a>&#8220;, said Prashant Saran, director of operations for Amazon Mena.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently announced its commitment to host products from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/15\/amazon-uae\/\">100,000 businesses<\/a>, including local SMBs, on its UAE website Amazon.ae by 2026, in support of the Dubai Economic Agenda D33 to make Dubai a global digital economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon opened a logistics facility in Dubai on Tuesday.\u00a0Located in Logistics District in Dubai South, the centre has a storage capacity of 2.1 million cubic feet spread across 350,000 square feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":17537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[64,245,3966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22311,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22309\/revisions\/22311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}