Amazon will build its second biggest delivery center in the country to penetrate into the Indian competitive online trading industry
As per reports, the American e-commerce company has announced that its second-biggest delivery center will be established by it outside the United States in the Indian city of Hyderabad which is South Indian state Telegana’s capital city. The measure came one year after the organization stated it would establish its largest India based warehouse near Hyderabad..
Telegana’s government’s senior official spoke to the Economic Times that the online trading giant was allocated 10 acres of land for the planned delivery center which is supposed to occupy 2.9 million square feet, developed to accommodate 13,500 people.
The Amazon development center’s present headcount in the city of Hyderabad is around 1000 across a number of offices. The announcement done on Friday by the company highlighted the increasing interest amongst giants based in Silicon valleys, a part of Andhra Pradesh in South of India.
In February, Apple announced to establish its biggest technology development outside the USA in Hyderabad. In recent times, Google and Microsoft also discussed plans to establish their campuses in the region.
Sources referred by the local media stated the building of the warehouse of Amazon, also called “fulfillment centers” will begin on 30th March 2016.
Fulfillment centers often established close to airports are employed to dispatch, sort and collect customer orders form third party suppliers and the company, who avail the huge warehousing system of the electronic trading platform operator free of charge.
Amazon is currently running such warehouses totaling at 21 in 10 Indian states. In 2014, an investment of $2 billion was announced by the enterprise to expand its Indian operation.
As per reports of Dnaindia, the Seattle based company presently has leased an office space of 1.2 million square feet in Bengaluru and rented an office space of 30,000 square feet in Mumbai. Sources have revealed during the inauguration ceremony of the planned delivery center of the company, its vice president John Morgan and senior vice president David Zapolksy will probably be present.
In other news, Nyoooz has reported that in the Indian city Chennai’s neighborhood Guindy, girls are delivering orders to Amazon’s customers and managing and running its warehouses. The Indian city has now become one of the 2 first only-women delivery centers in India. The other only-woman delivery center is located in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala.
The 2 delivery centers were launched in the last week, with the one in the neighborhood of Chennai operational since 3rd March 2016. The representatives of the company have stated the measure has been taken to provide a vast number of job opportunities to women in the logistics industry.
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