Developers are building Amazon’s first “logistics center” in Ireland in Baldonne, on the edge of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. Amazon is planning to launch a new site (amazon.ie) locally.

A report released by IBIS World shows that e-commerce sales in Ireland in 2019 are expected to increase by 12.9% to 2.2 billion euros. The research company predicts that in the next five years, Irish e-commerce sales will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.2% to 3.8 billion euros.

It is worth mentioning that last year, Amazon stated that it planned to open a courier station in Dublin. As Brexit will take effect in full at the end of 2020, Amazon expects this to complicate the role of the UK as a logistics hub for the Irish market.