Amazon builds first distribution center in the Netherlands for German market – IT Pro – News

Amazon is building a distribution center on a cross-border industrial estate in Heerlen in Limburg. This makes the building the company’s first distribution center on Dutch territory. This center will initially focus entirely on the German market.

Of Heerlen municipality writes that the distribution center must open in the autumn of 2021. According to 1Limburg enters the company only deliver in Germany in an area of ​​50 kilometers around Aachen. In the beginning nothing will be delivered to the Netherlands anyway, already reports De Limburger that the possibility of delivering from the center to the Netherlands is being investigated.

The new distribution center must have an area of ​​nine thousand square meters and provide 170 workplaces. Amazon wants to recruit both Dutch and German employees. In addition, the company needs 350 drivers from partner companies to be able to deliver the parcels.

It will be Amazon’s first distribution center in the Netherlands. Amazon is opening this summer a delivery center at Schiphol. No packages are stored here, only sorted. This delivery center mainly focuses on the Amsterdam region.

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