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Saudi-based logistics and supply chain solutions provider Starlinks announced, on Wednesday, the launch of a 100 million Saudi riyals ($26.65 million) hybrid logistics facility in Agility Logistics Park in Riyadh.
The facility consists of a storage area of 400,000 square feet, providing the capacity to store over 12 million units, the company said in a statement.
The centre will be run on a hybrid model employing both robotics and manual picking systems and sortation functions.
The statement said the facility will be equipped with 254 autonomous robots for picking and sorting, adding an average of 3.6 million unit orders per month will be processed.
The new centre, in addition to 18 others across the Kingdom, will be fully operational by Q2 2023.
Starlinks has partnered with China-based Geek+ for automation technology.
The Saudi firm provides direct and smooth integration with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, OpenCart, Amazon, eBay, and a further 60 platforms through direct APIs, the statement added.
(Writing by D Madhura; Editing by Anoop Menon)
