Amazon has expanded its logistics footprint across India ahead of the festive shopping season, adding 150 last-mile delivery stations across 118 cities along with new fulfilment and sortation facilities. The expansion is part of the company’s broader ₹2,800 crore investment in its Indian operations network.
The latest Amazon India expansion adds capacity across storage, sorting and last-mile delivery as the ecommerce company prepares for higher order volumes during one of the country’s busiest shopping periods.
Amazon has opened 20 new fulfilment centres and six new sort centres alongside the 150 delivery stations. The company says the additional infrastructure will improve delivery speeds while extending its logistics reach into more Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets.
Amazon Adds 150 Delivery Stations Across 118 Cities
The new last-mile facilities cover 118 cities, with Amazon entering 12 locations through delivery stations for the first time.
These include Bhojpur, Bokajan, Jalaun, Jehanabad, Namsai, Puruliya, Ribhoi, Senapati, Sivasagar, Udalguri, Ukhrul and Wokha.
The expansion also reflects the increasing importance of smaller Indian cities for large ecommerce platforms. Online shopping demand is no longer concentrated only in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and other major urban markets.
Storage Capacity Jumps 50%
Amazon has also added 20 fulfilment centres as part of the expansion.
The new facilities increase the company’s total storage capacity in India by 50% to approximately 64 million cubic feet.
Seven of the newly added fulfilment centres are located in non-metro cities, signalling a continued move towards decentralising the company’s logistics infrastructure.
Raipur, Ranchi and Varanasi are among the cities receiving their first Amazon fulfilment centres.
Fulfilment centres hold inventory from sellers before orders are picked, packed and moved through Amazon’s delivery network. Increasing capacity outside major metropolitan areas can place products closer to customers and reduce the distance orders need to travel.
That becomes especially important during large sale events, when ecommerce platforms can experience sudden spikes in daily order volumes.
The Amazon logistics network is therefore being expanded not only to accommodate more inventory but also to position that inventory closer to emerging centres of online demand.
Six New Sort Centres Increase Processing Capacity
Another part of Amazon’s expansion involves six new sort centres located in Chikkaballapur, Hassan, Meerut, Ramanagar, Raipur and Varanasi.
These facilities will increase Amazon’s overall sortation area from around 2.4 million square feet to approximately 3 million square feet, representing an increase of about 25%.
Sort centres sit between fulfilment centres and local delivery stations.
Packages from different locations are grouped according to their destinations before being moved towards the correct last-mile facilities.
More sorting capacity can help Amazon process larger volumes while reducing congestion elsewhere in its network.
During festive sales, that capability becomes particularly important as millions of orders need to move through warehouses and transportation routes within relatively short periods.
Same-Day Delivery Reaches More Locations
Faster delivery is becoming an increasingly important competitive factor across Indian ecommerce.
Amazon says its latest network expansion has enabled same-day delivery services to reach 30% more cities compared with the previous year.
Speed expectations have changed considerably as quick-commerce companies have familiarised consumers with delivery windows measured in minutes rather than days.
Traditional ecommerce platforms are responding by bringing inventory closer to customers and developing multiple delivery models.
For Amazon, this ranges from standard ecommerce deliveries to same-day services and the faster Amazon Now platform.
The company’s broader logistics investment therefore supports several delivery speeds rather than one standard model.
Amazon Now Push Continues
Amazon is also expanding its quick-commerce operations in India.
Amazon Now currently operates across more than 55 cities through over 750 stores and fulfilment locations supporting rapid delivery.
The company plans to eventually take its delivery-in-minutes network to more than 300 cities.
That expansion represents a significant escalation of Amazon’s push into India’s quick-commerce market, where established platforms have already built large customer bases and extensive networks of dark stores.
For Amazon, its existing ecommerce infrastructure offers one potential advantage.
Fulfilment centres, sortation centres, delivery stations and newer rapid-delivery facilities can work together to support different shopping requirements.
Customers purchasing urgently needed household goods may use minute-level delivery, while larger selections can continue moving through the company’s conventional ecommerce network.
₹2,800 Crore Investment Supports Wider Expansion
The latest infrastructure rollout forms part of Amazon’s previously announced investment of more than ₹2,800 crore in its India operations during 2026.
The spending covers network expansion as well as improvements in technology, worker safety and operational efficiency.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are also becoming more deeply integrated into the company’s logistics systems.
Amazon has been using these technologies for inventory planning, demand forecasting, route optimisation and workload distribution.
Accurately predicting where products will be required can allow inventory to be moved closer to customers before orders are placed.
For a network operating across a country as large and geographically varied as India, small improvements in forecasting and routing can potentially translate into significant operational gains.
Festive Season Creates 160,000 Work Opportunities
Amazon’s network expansion is also being accompanied by a large seasonal workforce increase.
The company has created more than 160,000 temporary work opportunities across roughly 400 Indian cities ahead of the festive shopping period.
These positions cover activities including picking, packing, shipping and delivering customer orders.
Seasonal hiring is common across the ecommerce industry because demand increases sharply around major festive sales.
Instead of permanently maintaining staffing levels required only during peak periods, logistics companies temporarily increase their workforce as order volumes rise.
Amazon’s new facilities will also require additional workers and logistics partners to operate storage, sorting and last-mile delivery activities.
Smaller Cities Become More Important to Ecommerce Growth
One of the clearest themes running through the Amazon India expansion is the growing importance of markets outside the largest metropolitan areas.
Several of the new fulfilment and delivery facilities are located in smaller cities where ecommerce penetration continues to deepen.
Improved logistics can strengthen that growth further.
The expansion therefore supports both sides of Amazon’s marketplace: customers seeking faster delivery and businesses trying to reach buyers across a wider geographic area.
Amazon Prepares for the Next Phase of Indian Ecommerce
India remains one of Amazon’s most important international markets, and the latest infrastructure rollout shows that physical logistics continues to play a major role even as ecommerce becomes increasingly technology-driven.
AI may help determine where products should be stored, which routes should be used and how demand could change. But those systems ultimately depend on warehouses, sort centres and delivery stations capable of moving products efficiently.
The addition of 150 delivery stations, 20 fulfilment centres and six sort centres considerably expands that physical network.
As festive shopping accelerates, the immediate goal is straightforward: move more packages faster and reach customers across more cities.
Over the longer term, however, the investment also positions the Amazon logistics network for a market where customers increasingly expect flexible delivery options ranging from minutes to the same day and conventional next-day ecommerce.
Source; The Times of India: Amazon adds 150 delivery stations across 118 cities to speed festive deliveries
