Amazon ramps up delivery station network
Internet retailer and 3PL Amazon is ramping up its delivery station network with, it is believed, some two dozen live requirements in the UK.
By Liza Helps, Property Editor Logistics Matters
THE COMPANY has been relatively quiet with regards new facilities in recent years especially with regards to its last mile delivery station network after scaling back in 2022.
However, last week Logistics Matters reported on a bespoke facility being brought forward Brookfield on the site of the former Pets At Home distribution centre in Stoke on Trent with the internet giant’s distinctive multi storey van deck https://www.logisticsmatters.co.uk/Amazon-for-former-PetsAtHome-DC
Now the Northern Echo is reporting that it has confirmed that Amazon will be developing a similarly sized unit with distinctive multi story van deck near Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees in the Northeast.
Proposals for the delivery station according to Stockton Council’s website were initially put forward in 2020 for a site off Queen Elizabeth way south of Preston Farm Industrial Estate.
It is now widely known that Amazon is the ‘global leader in ecommerce’ tenant that pre-let Tritax’s 950,000 ft2 plus Unit 3 warehouse at its 2.3 million ft2 Symmetry Park Kettering scheme at the end of last year. It also secured land at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton for the development of a 2 million ft2 plus distribution centre earlier in 2024.
Whether Amazon will become a dominant player as it did prior to the pandemic when in 2016 it was responsible for 25% of the total take up of warehouse space over 100,000 ft2 in the UK, is as yet still to be seen.
But with so many live requirements for its delivery stations, in addition to, as yet unsatisfied, larger RDC requirements not withstanding any contracts going out to 3PLs – watch this space.
