New fulfilment centre Amazon in Heerlen creates 500 job openings
Online mail order company Amazon builds a new fulfilment centre on the border crossing company grounds Avantis. The fulfilment centre opens in autumn 2021 and creates more than 500 job openings. There are at least 170 regular jobs created, and around 350 chauffeur jobs at delivery partners.
Customer orders are prepared for last mile delivery in the fulfilment centre. The packages are mostly delivered at night from the logistic and sorting centres. The packages are sorted on route and next picked up and delivered by deliverers with distribution vehicles. Amazon works together with local independent delivery partners that deliver the packages at their destinations.
Job availability
‘’We are very happy with the job availability that Amazon for our city and region creates with the new distribution centre. We can use these jobs to offer perspective to people in search for a job.
Amazon is a big international company. This shows we are also for companies of this size an attractive region. We are very proud of this,’’ said counsellor Martin de Beer.
Border crossing cooperation
The mayor of Aken in Germany, Sibylle Keupen, underlines the importance of cooperation: We invested with Avantis in an early stage in border crossing cooperation, and we build friendly and especially durable relations with our partners. It bears fruit. The diverse and rich chances that appear because of the border crossing cooperation and close proximity of universities for ca. 4 million people living in the Euroregion Maas-Rijn, will become increasingly important in the next years.
Avantis
Avantis is since the end of the 90s the first border crossing business park of Europe; approximately 60 percent of Avantis is located in the city grounds of Aken, Germany and 40 percent within the city grounds of Heerlen, the Netherlands. The park has a total surface of 100 hectares and approximately 700.000 square meter commercial space.
Source: Nieuw distributiecentrum Amazon in Heerlen goed voor 500 banen – WijLimburg