{"id":71197,"date":"2023-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/06\/01\/amazon-ksa-launches-new-fulfillment-center-in-riyadh-doubling-its-storage-capacity\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"amazon-ksa-launches-new-fulfillment-center-in-riyadh-doubling-its-storage-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/06\/01\/amazon-ksa-launches-new-fulfillment-center-in-riyadh-doubling-its-storage-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon KSA launches new fulfillment center in Riyadh, doubling its storage capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Amazon Saudi Arabia has opened its new fulfillment center in Riyadh<\/span><span style=\"\">, according to <\/span><span style=\"\">a <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/press-release\/companies-news\/amazon-saudi-doubles-its-storage-capacity-with-the-launch-of-its-new-fulfillment-center-in-riyadh-eqm1j2kr\" style=\"\">press release<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\">. The new facility, which spans 390k <\/span><span style=\"\">sq<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">uare feet across five floors and has a storage capacity of 2.7 mn cubic feet, doubles Amazon\u2019s total storage capacity in KSA. The center can store over 9 mn products, enabling Amazon to provide a wider range of products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The details: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">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. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">What they said: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">\u201cThe new fulfillment center is Amazon\u2019s 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,\u201d Amazon MENA Director of Operations Prashant Saran commented in the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Amazon is also keeping sustainability in mind:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> 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\u2019s commitment to becoming net-zero carbon by 2040, according to the statement. The facility\u2019s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning will also be monitored by a building management system that will reduce unnecessary energy consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Amazon has been upping storage capacity across MENA:<\/span><span style=\"\"> Amazon launched its <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/logistics\/en\/news\/story\/20d59713-e42a-438d-9020-d0c0724ef7cb\" style=\"\">second fulfillment center<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\"> 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 <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/818ee036-5043-47d4-a311-7d11147e0d6a\" style=\"\">March<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, tripling its storage capacity in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facility has a storage capacity of 2.7 mn cubic feet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[244,17,609,31,207],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-71197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage-warehouses","tag-amazon","tag-enterprise-logistics","tag-fulfillment","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-storage-warehouses","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"22086049-2165-4e82-9994-47ce93b76995","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/1782.jpg,https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazonnews\/status\/1663666662502014978\/photo\/2","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Amazon KSA launches new fulfillment center in Riyadh, doubling its storage capacity","related_issue":[71190],"teaser":"The facility has a storage capacity of 2.7 mn cubic feet","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/6\/.f8dcfe2f-95ad-420f-a343-9141246beadc.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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