Behind the scenes at Amazon: Inside the e-commerce giant’s biggest fulfilment centre in the UAE

Behind the scenes at Amazon: Inside the e-commerce giant’s biggest fulfilment centre in the UAE

It is likely that we have all ordered from Amazon at least once or twice. Since the US e-commerce site launched in the UAE in May 2019, with Amazon Prime coming a month later, it has become a convenient go-to, with next-day and same-day delivery.

But just how does an operation as giant as Amazon work? We took a look inside its largest fulfilment centre in the UAE, spread over 32,700 square metres with more than 650 staff members, to find out.

Modern Willy Wonka

Touring the DXB3 centre, in Dubai Logistics City, we felt like we had been shown behind the curtain