Amazon’s new Italian distribution centre in Jesi, in Coppetella and adjacent to Interporto Marche (Marche Intermodal Freight Village), saw its first outbound product on the morning of Monday 6 July 2026, a set from the Lego Botanicals collection, marking the operational launch of the facility. The e-commerce and logistics multinational describes it as Amazon’s ninth distribution centre in Italy and its first in the Marche, built with an investment of €180m. Amazon added that the site will create 1,000 permanent jobs over the next three years, in addition to the 19,000 permanent employees already working for Amazon at more than 60 sites across Italy.
“With the opening of Jesi, we are strengthening our presence in the Marche and in the Adriatic region, an area with a vibrant business fabric and a strong manufacturing vocation.” Giorgio Busnelli, Country Manager of Amazon.it, commented on the launch of the site in these terms, recalling total investment of more than €25bn over 15 years of presence in Italy. Lorenzo Barbo, managing director of Amazon Italia Logistica, instead highlighted the range of professional profiles involved, from human resources staff to IT specialists, and from maintenance technicians to warehouse operators, describing them as growth paths accessible even to those joining without previous experience.
The facility covers 60,000 square metres under roof on a total site area of 232,500 square metres and has more than 1,000 parking spaces, including 54 reserved for people with disabilities and 108 equipped with charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. More than 60 different roles operate inside, from procurement to quality control and from safety to automation, with workstations designed to reduce physical effort through assistive technologies that handle the most demanding tasks.
Amazon has also disclosed the gross monthly entry-level pay for logistics roles, in force since January 2026, which stands at €1,914. It said this is 8% above the minimum set by the Ccnl Logistica e Trasporti (National Collective Labour Agreement for Logistics and Transport) for level five and 23.5% higher than in 2020. Amazon in Italy added that it invested €4bn in 2024 alone and, on safety, €16m in 2025 across protective equipment, medical units operating 24 hours a day and training. During the year, 260,000 hours of dedicated training were delivered, with more than 3,670 staff trained in first aid and fire prevention across the Italian logistics network.
The staff selection process moved into full swing on Wednesday 1 July, when the Centro per l’impiego di Jesi (Jesi employment centre) hosted a recruiting day involving around 400 candidates, managed through a structured interview process in collaboration with private employment agencies. The initiative was attended by Tiziano Consoli, Marche regional councillor for labour, who said the event marked the creation of a stable local employment pact along the industrial axis linking Ancona and Jesi. Consoli said the work of the employment centres in the Ancona area is designed to reach more vulnerable sections of the population, offering opportunities for re-employment both to unemployed people and to workers who have left companies affected by business crises. In the previous months, Regione Marche (Marche Region) and the via Pio La Torre office had already launched free vocational courses for warehouse operator roles, including the safety licences needed to work in modern automated hubs. The actual selection process had begun in April in collaboration with the Adecco agency.
The Jesi project was presented in May 2023, with opening initially scheduled for mid-2025. Construction of the building was completed in June last year, but the start of operations was postponed several times: first expected by the end of 2025, then moved to September 2026 according to an announcement by Jesi mayor Lorenzo Fiordelmondo in December, and finally set for July 2026 during a visit by Barbo last May, around one year behind the original plans. Amazon attributed the postponements to decisions taken at international level regarding its logistics network, without providing further details. In the meantime, the empty facility had fuelled local uncertainty, to the point that newspapers such as Corriere Adriatico had spoken of a “mystery” surrounding the failure to open, while Regione Marche (Marche Region) had acknowledged that it had no tools to speed up the timetable.
Antonio Illariuzzi
