From Dudelange to 23 European countries: Amazon opens IT equipment hub for staff

Amazon has opened its first corporate IT logistics hub in continental Europe in Dudelange. From Luxembourg, the site will prepare equipment for employees in 23 European countries. Its significance lies in the European role of a local facility, rather than in consumer parcel deliveries.

The hub receives and stores laptops and other staff devices, configures them, assembles orders and ships them to Amazon teams across Europe. The company says this brings together work previously handled country by country.

Amazon puts the site at 3,500 square metres and its investment at around €12.5 million. It says local contractors carried out about 70% of the fit-out work. These figures describe the scale of the facility, not the number of jobs created.

According to Tageblatt, the initial workforce will be 20 people. The investment should therefore not be mistaken for a large recruitment programme. The change is that Dudelange has become a node in Amazon’s internal European IT operations.

The project illustrates a use for Luxembourg’s logistics base beyond moving consumer goods: storing, configuring and dispatching workplace technology. The site has just opened, so its longer-term impact remains to be seen.

Sources: Amazon — https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/company-news/amazon-opens-its-first-it-logistics-hub-in-continental-europe ; Tageblatt — https://www.tageblatt.lu/Luxemburg/Amazon-weiht-IT-Logistikzentrum-in-Duedelingen-ein-114439.html