The company clarified that this will allow reducing the load on existing sites and organizing supplies after the incident.
“The new center will help reduce the load on the existing Utkina Zavod warehouse, and goods from it will be transported to other warehouses for sorting and delivery to customers,” the statement said.
Compensation to suppliers will begin to be paid on Monday, January 15. The amount of payments will be calculated as if the goods were sold on January 13.
Operational services received information about a fire at the Wildberries warehouse on January 13 at 07:42 Moscow time. A recently built warehouse complex in the village of Shushary (Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg) caught fire, where various consumer goods intended for subsequent distribution to collection points were stored.
The area of the fire reached 70 thousand square meters. A collapse occurred in an area of 40 thousand square meters.
