Amazon has opened its first micromobility hub in Northern Ireland, which is home to a fleet of e-cargo bikes that ‘will deliver thousands of packages per week’.
The hub, based at Amazon’s delivery station in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, is one of over 40 in cities across the UK and Europe facilitating on-foot and e-cargo bike deliveries.
As reported by Logistics Manager, the company announced in September 2023 that it was expanding this network with the addition of a new micromobility delivery hub in Glasgow that it hoped would support the delivery of ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Amazon packages using e-cargo bikes across Glasgow in the next year.
The e-cargo bikes and walkers are part of a £300 million investment to electrify and decarbonise Amazon’s UK transportation network, with these vehicles now expected to make millions of deliveries to Amazon customers across the UK every year.
It is hoped that this will take delivery vans off city centre roads, as well as helping to improve air quality and alleviate congestion.
Jim Press, Amazon’s senior delivery station manager in Belfast, commented: “Our new electric cargo bikes are part of Amazon’s commitment to reach net zero carbon across our operations by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
“This is a proud moment for our team and great news for customers across the city who will benefit from zero-emission deliveries to their door.”
In addition to these alternative delivery vehicles, Amazon and its partners have deployed more than 1,000 electric delivery vans across the UK and Ireland, as well nine fully electric HGVs – the first in Amazon’s fleet – which have replaced traditional lorries.
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