Amazon has opened its first micromobility hub in Northern Ireland at its delivery station in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter.
This now houses a fleet of electric cargo bikes which will deliver thousands of packages per week to Amazon customers.
Belfast joins more than 40 cities in the UK and across Europe which have Amazon micromobility hubs facilitating electric cargo bike and on-foot deliveries, part of a £300 million investment to electrify and decarbonise Amazon’s UK transportation network.
Electric cargo bikes and walkers are now expected to make millions of deliveries to customers across the UK every year.
“Our new electric cargo bikes are part of Amazon’s commitment to reach net zero carbon across our operations by 2040, ten 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 emissions deliveries to their door,” says Jim Press, Senior Delivery Station Manager at Amazon in Belfast.
Amazon is working with Astral Fox, a local company which provides delivery services to its customers.
Nick Turkington, owner of Astral Fox, says: “We are delighted to work with Amazon to bring this fleet of electric cargo bikes to Northern Ireland.”
“We think the electric cargo bikes are going to be a big hit with customers, while also supporting Amazon’s sustainability commitments. The future is here and this is just the beginning.”
Amazon and its partners have more than 1,000 electric delivery vans deployed across the UK and Ireland, in addition to nine fully electric heavy goods vehicles, the first in Amazon’s fleet, which have replaced traditional lorries.
Laying claim to being the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally and in the UK, Amazon has 29 operational on-site solar projects and has enabled seven large scale offsite renewable energy projects, with a capacity of more than 900MW in the UK.
Once all projects are operational, they are expected to generate enough energy to power the equivalent of more than one million UK homes annually.
These include corporate purchase power agreements with; a wind farm in Ballykeel, Co Antrim, which opened last year; Moray West Offshore Windfarm in Scotland; and East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm in Suffolk.
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