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Heavy delays are set to disrupt the growth of new data centres as construction times blow out and available land tightens.

Amazon Australia will open its first dedicated sort centre in Craigieburn, Melbourne in time for the busy festive season as the demand for last mile logistics properties grows.

Online retail behemoth Amazon is well into building the country’s largest warehouse in western Sydney and has flagged that more of its massive fulfilment centres will be opened as demand for online shopping surges.

Retail behemoth Amazon will open one of its signature new fulfilment centres in the western suburbs of Melbourne, committing to a Dexus logistics park, as it seeks to lock in gains it made during the pandemic.

Deliveries have started rolling out the door at Amazon’s latest delivery centre near Melbourne Airport at Tullamarine.

As consumers move to a virtual world, tech companies move to the real world.

Online retail behemoth Amazon is negotiating a move to a new $1.5bn precinct being developed by the Charter Hall in Melbourne’s central business district in one of the largest office developments since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

US online behemoth Amazon envisages distributing more than a million parcels a day from its new $500 million distribution facility in Sydney’s west and it will introduce the largest army of its roboticised helpers in the southern hemisphere to get the job done.

A series of major logistics and industrial projects have been fast-tracked around Australia as the sector emerges from the coron­avirus crisis as the strongest property sector.