Ninja Van boosts capacity with new Quezon City packaging hub

MANILA, Philippines — Delivery service provider Ninja Van Philippines has put up a packaging hub in Quezon City that can process at least 50,000 parcels every day.

Ninja Van said it has completed its 5,045–square-meter Novaliches hub that it will bank on to carry much of its delivery services in Metro Manila and Central Luzon.

The Novaliches hub features two warehouses that will raise the company’s capacity to accommodate and sort packages given the increasing demand for last-mile services.

Ninja Van Philippines CEO Vin Perez said the new hub will generate a total of 190 jobs to meet its operational requirements. Further, the firm will equip it with a conveyor belt that automatically measures parcel dimensions.

Perez also said the Novaliches hub can process more than 50,000 parcels a day. He said the facility would serve mostly the logistics market around Luzon, where bulk of the shipments bought from e-commerce sites are delivered.

“The growth of e-commerce in recent years – accelerated by the pandemic – now requires third-party logistics providers to stay ahead of our shippers and shoppers’ changing demands,” Perez said.

The Ninja Van Group and DPD Group, in their E-Commerce Barometer 2021 report, said the Philippines ranked second among six nations in Southeast Asia in terms of average basket size for e-commerce purchases.

Based on the report, Filipinos spend at least $33 per single purchase on e-commerce platforms and want their parcels delivered by reliable and transparent service providers.

On the safety side, Perez said the Novaliches hub features fire protection, enhanced lighting, a security station and insulated roofs. He vowed that the new facility can protect both workers and parcels housed inside it.

Ninja Van wants to build on its infrastructure base to gear up for the rising demand for logistics services. Perez said the firm eyes to become one of the most trusted delivery players in the country by shippers and shoppers alike.

In the Philippines, e-commerce transactions, which Ninja Van mainly caters to, are estimated to grow by at least 17 percent annually in the next four years to P495 billion by 2025, according to London-based GlobalData.

Aside from the Philippines, Ninja Van provides delivery services for enterprises of every size in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.