American multinational e-commerce Amazon has inaugurated this Monday the new Plaza warehouse in which it has invested 175 million euros to make it one of the three most technologically advanced in the entire European network. After one month of filming, the workforce stands at 700 out of 1,000 full-time workers and in three years it will reach a thousand committed ones, 150 of whom have joined from other centers in the country.

After a month of shooting, The center receives 75 trucks a day and moves 2.5 million goods a week, with the aim of more than quadrupling its capacity, to 11.24 million units, and accept 500 trucks at full capacity. This will be aided by its high automation and robotization, as up to 60% of the tasks of receiving, classifying and dispatching merchandise will be mechanized.

The director of the complex, César Hernández from Teruel, explains that it is a warehouse of warehouses, of which half a dozen are spread across Great Britain (2), Germany (2), France (1), and Poland (1). Unlike all of them, it will be the first to have a storage area for low-turnover, high-season products.

Twenty racks, over thirteen meters high, are installed and ready to store 1.2 million cubic meters of merchandise, although use will not begin until the end of the year despite occupying one sixth of the facility. For example, he has provided sun umbrellas or beach mats.

To get an idea of ​​its importance, it would occupy one-sixth of the ship, that is the total area is twice that of the Paseo de la Independencia in Zaragoza with an area of ​​60,396 square meters. Most of it is the warehouse itself, 52,344 meters in area, which added several adjoining rooms for rest and services for workers, as well as an office block with another 5,384 m2.

Hernández has detailed just that the algorithm is the one that decides to which central ship, called the first mile, and half a mile put up for storage, all product shipped by its extensive network of suppliers should go. And they do so thanks to a real-time computerized stock system, which is key for a ‘cross-docking’ center: boxes remain in the facility for a maximum of 24 hours and many of them never touch the ground to continue the logistics cycle at the other 35 facilities.

To feed its mammoth chain, it will need to mobilize half a thousand trucks a day when it reaches full capacity, although this spring it is hoped some deliveries to Europe will be made by rail with a route that will end in Frankfurt. . Because of the type of delivery Amazon does, use of the Zaragoza airport has been ruled out, as has Inditex.

In a statement, the general director of Amazon Customer Fulfillment in France, Italy and Spain, Fred Pattje, has stated that the investment in the new center represents one more example of “commitment to Aragon”, with the creation of quality jobs at its third complex in Zaragoza. The first is a delivery center for its customers, called the last mile, located in the Plaza and opening in October 2021, followed a year later in Transport City with fresh produce to compete with supermarkets in the capital. and their sphere of influence.