Amazon Saudi Arabia has opened its new fulfillment center in Riyadh, according to a press release. The new facility, which spans 390k square feet across five floors and has a storage capacity of 2.7 mn cubic feet, doubles Amazon’s total storage capacity in KSA. The center can store over 9 mn products, enabling Amazon to provide a wider range of products.

The details: The fulfillment center will provide the Fulfilled by Amazon service, which allows sellers to store, pick, pack, and ship their customer orders through Amazon, which aims to host some 40k Saudi sellers on its website by 2025, the press release said. The center will incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning in its operations and is equipped with over 2.5 km of conveyance equipment.

What they said: “The new fulfillment center is Amazon’s most advanced in Saudi Arabia and brings 25+ years of global logistics technology and innovation in line with the Vision 2030 goal of establishing the Kingdom as the go-to logistics hub for the region,” Amazon MENA Director of Operations Prashant Saran commented in the statement.

Amazon is also keeping sustainability in mind: The facility will be powered 100% by green electricity, avoiding the use of fossil fuels, including in its heating and hot water systems, which is in line with the company’s commitment to becoming net-zero carbon by 2040, according to the statement. The facility’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning will also be monitored by a building management system that will reduce unnecessary energy consumption.

Amazon has been upping storage capacity across MENA: Amazon launched its second fulfillment center in Dubai back in March, with 2.1 mn cubic feet of storage, which upped its storage in the UAE by 70%. Amazon Egypt also opened a 100k cubic meter fulfillment center in March, tripling its storage capacity in Egypt.

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