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In lead up to Prime Day, Amazon ramps up room for 2-hour delivery service

On Prime Day, the company will launch a two-hour express delivery service on the back of 'I Have Space' warehouses

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Karan Choudhury New Delhi
With as many as 67 fulfilment centres (FC) across 13 states in India, and a storage capacity of over 20 million cubic feet, Amazon India says it is now has the largest warehousing capacity among all e-commerce firms in the country.

That apart, the company has created a whole new wing of forward logistics providers, which basically are small-format warehouses within a city for two-hour express deliveries. Amazon now has 17,500 such 'I Have Space' stores across 225 cities and 350 service partners in 320 cities.

The bolstered backend logistics will help the company when it launches its 36-hour-long global

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