Amazon has determined to shut its logistics middle in Martorelles (Barcelona), the place 800 individuals work, and switch its exercise to a brand new facility that may open in March in Zaragoza, the place a thousand workers are anticipated to work.
In an announcement, the agency has defined that they’re adjusting their logistics community to the present wants of the corporate: “We always consider our community of operations to make sure that it meets our wants as an organization and to enhance the expertise of our workers and clients. As a part of this effort, we open new facilities, enhance present services and shut older facilities,” they defined.
Has Amazon affected the speed?
The closure of the Martorelles middle will coincide in time with the entry into power in Barcelona, in March, of the so-called Amazon tax, a tax that shall be utilized to all parcel corporations that ship to the town.
Barcelona City Council plans to earn as much as 2.6 million euros a yr from this charge, which is levied on postal operators that invoice a couple of million euros a yr.
In the assertion, Amazon has additionally introduced that subsequent April it’s going to open the robotic middle deliberate within the Far d’Empordà, which is able to generate some 1,400 jobs
Currently, the agency employs greater than 7,000 individuals in Catalonia. It has logistics facilities in El Prat de Llobregat and Castellbisbal, a distribution middle in Barberà del Vallès, an Amazon Fresh level in Barcelona and numerous logistics stations within the territory.
In Barcelona, the corporate additionally has company places of work, a vendor service middle and a know-how hub.
Will there be layoffs?
According to Amazon’s director of operations for Spain, France and Italy, Fred Pattje, the corporate figures the funding it has made in our nation since 2011 at greater than 10,500 million euros. In this sense, he assures that they are going to proceed to spend money on the community of facilities in Spain.
“The new logistics facilities in Zaragoza and Far d’Empordà underscore our dedication to the nation, the place we already make use of 20,000 proficient individuals in all kinds of high quality positions, from robotics engineers to IT professionals and finance specialists, going via the groups that gather, pack and ship buyer orders,” they defined in an announcement.
On the opposite hand, per week in the past Amazon introduced that the variety of anticipated layoffs worldwide was rising to 18,000 individuals.
The firm at present has one and a half million employees all over the world, a workforce that has grown so much lately, particularly with the pandemic. But now the uncertainties concerning the financial system and particularly about consumption have made administration redefine its technique.