Amazon announces opening of giant storage facility in Riyadh

Amazon announces opening of giant storage facility in Riyadh

Amazon's Saudi unit has doubled its storage capacity with the launch of a new fulfillment centre in capital Riyadh, spanning 390,000 sq ft across five floors - approximately the size of five football fields.

The centre will have a storage capacity of 2.7 million cubic feet, and will be able to store over 9 million products, enabling Amazon to delight customers with a wider selection of products across electronics, appliances, groceries, fashion, books, and more.

This expansion will support more Saudi entrepreneurs and sellers to scale their businesses online, said a statement from Amazon.

The opening ceremony was held in the presence of National Industrial Development and Logistics Program CEO Engineer Suliman Almazroua as well as delegations from the Ministry of Transport and Logistics Services, the Transport General Authority, and Monsha’at – Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Following the ceremony, Abdo Chlala, Country Manager, Amazon Saudi Arabia, along with Prashant Saran, Director of Operations, Amazon Middle East and North Africa (Mena) and Dr Hatem Samman, Public Policy Lead, Amazon Saudi Arabia, guided the dignitaries on a tour of the facility.

Speaking on the occasion, Almazroua said: "Saudi Arabia has made remarkable progress in developing world-class infrastructure and business-enabling policies that aim