New Haydock sortation centre to play key role in Amazon's final mile delivery strategy

Amazon is set to add a key part to its final mile logistics network with the opening of a £68m sortation centre in Haydock in September.

The 98,425sq ft centre, located in Haydock’s M6Major.com business park, will receive and sort parcels from Amazon’s fulfilment centres and arrange their transportation to delivery stations, where they will be collected by drivers for delivery to customers.

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Kevin Marsh, general manager for Amazon’s UK sortation operations, said: “We are delighted to be creating 250 permanent new jobs over the next 18 months in St Helens as we continue to develop our last mile logistics network.

He added that the sortation centre will play "an important role" in supporting Amazon's delivery service.

The opening of the sortation centre follows the opening of Amazon’s latest fulfilment centre in Kegworth in April.

Amazon has opened 18 fulfilment centres in the UK to date.

These include three fulfilment centres in Doncaster and one each in Bolton, Coalville, Coventry, Daventry, Dunfermline, Dunstable, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley, Swansea Bay, Tilbury and Warrington.