Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Helicopter Crash Near Ras Tanura Kills All 14 Aboard
Saudi AramcoRas Tannurah Governorate, Eastern Province, 32811, Saudi Arabia
Starts 06/28/2026 3:00AMCONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE88 days agoStated as done, per Al Jazeera^[1]/Reuters citing SPA and the Energy Ministry: 'The helicopter belonging to the Saudi Aramco oil company crashed in Ras Tanura at around 6am (03:00 GMT)' on 28 June 2026.
A Leonardo AW139 carrying oil workers back from Aramco's offshore fields crashed on approach to Ras Tanura at about 6 a.m., killing its two pilots and 12 passengers, all Saudi nationals.
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Drone strike breaches Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Starts 02/14/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE1.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: a Russian "Geran-2" drone struck the New Safe Confinement structure at approximately 1:50 a.m. on February 14, 2025.
A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Huajin Aramco's Panjin Refinery and Petrochemical Complex Starts Up
Dawa District, Panjin City, Liaoning, ChinaSaudi Aramco
Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysEstimated, per aramco.com^[1]: the complex "is expected to be fully operational by 2026" (a bare year, so its last day); Energy Intelligence (Oct 2025) says it is on track to come "on line next year", and Splash (Sep 2026) reports it in "final commissioning and start-up preparations" with no date.
A 300,000 b/d refinery with 1.65 million tonnes a year of ethylene and 2 million tonnes of paraxylene in Panjin, Liaoning, built by Aramco's joint venture with NORINCO and Panjin Xincheng for RMB 83.7 billion. Aramco will supply up to 210,000 barrels a day of its crude.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Agrees to Sell Its PRefChem Stake to PETRONAS
JALAN PIC T/1, Petrochemical Complex, Kota Tinggi, Johor, MalaysiaSaudi Aramco
Starts 05/25/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE122 days agoStated as firm, per petronas.com^[4]: "KUALA LUMPUR, 25 May 2026 - PETRONAS announces that its subsidiary ... has signed an agreement to acquire the equity stake held by Saudi Arabian Oil Company"; Aramco's^[1][2] own newsroom dates the joint announcement May 24, 2026.
Aramco signed an agreement to transfer its stakes in the PRefChem refinery and petrochemical complex at Pengerang, Johor to PETRONAS, which will own and run it outright. Aramco committed $7 billion to the 300,000 b/d project in 2017; the sale comes as the Strait of Hormuz closure cut Saudi crude flows to Asia.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
S-Oil's Shaheen Petrochemical Complex Starts Commercial Operation
S-OilS-oil, Onsan-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 45001, South Korea
Starts 01/31/2027DELAYED4 weeks late66% CONFIDENCEin 129 daysDelayed, per iusm.co.kr^[1]: S-Oil told its 3 August 2026 call it is "2027년 초 상업가동을 목표로" (targeting commercial operation in early 2027) after pre-commissioning and start-up; KBS (Feb 2026) gives the target as January 2027, so the month's last day.
S-Oil's 9.26 trillion won Shaheen complex at its Onsan refinery in Ulsan, with the world's first commercial Thermal Crude-to-Chemicals unit and a 1.8 million-tonne ethylene cracker, is due to start commercial operation in early 2027. Aramco is S-Oil's largest shareholder.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Closes $11 Billion Jafurah Midstream Deal With GIP-Led Consortium
Al Jafurah, Al Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
10/28/2025 - 10/27/2045CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE331 days agoStated as done, per aramco.com^[1][6] (dateline 'DHAHRAN|OCTOBER 28, 2025'): Aramco 'today announced the completion of an $11 billion lease and leaseback investment agreement'; Argaam^[4] and SPA^[3] carry the same 28 October date. The end is the 20-year term ('leasing them back to Aramco under a 20-year agreement') counted from that completion, exclusive.
Investors led by BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners take 49% of Jafurah Midstream Gas Company, which leases the Jafurah gas plant and Riyas NGL facility back to Aramco for 20 years in return for a tariff.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco's Zuluf Crude Oil Increment Completes
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Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysA target year, per Aramco's^[2][3] Q2 2026 results release: 'Zuluf crude oil increment and Fadhili Gas Plant expansion on track for completion in 2026 and 2027, respectively' - a bare year, so its last day.
The offshore Zuluf increment, whose associated gas feeds the new Tanajib Gas Plant, is on track for completion in 2026 after Marjan came on stream in December 2025.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Reports Q2 2026 Results: $33.4B Profit as Hormuz Shock Lifts Prices
Eastern Avenue, Gharb Adh Dhahran, Dhahran, Dammam, Dammam Governorate, Eastern Province, 34464, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
Starts 08/04/2026 5:00AMCONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE51 days agoStated as firm: the Saudi Exchange^[2] announcement "Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco^[1]) Announces its Interim Financial Results for the Period Ended 2026-06-30 (Six Months)" is stamped 04/08/2026 08:00:22 Riyadh time (05:00 UTC), and Aramco's investor page says it "published its half-year 2026 results on August 4, 2026" (the newsroom's "AUGUST 03" is a display-timezone artefact).
Aramco's second-quarter adjusted net income rose 33% to $33.4 billion as prices surged with the Strait of Hormuz disrupted by the Iran war, while exports kept flowing through the East-West Pipeline. It declared a $21.9 billion base dividend; first-half adjusted profit reached $67.2 billion.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Signs US LNG Deals With Commonwealth LNG and MidOcean
Saudi AramcoDavis Road, Cameron Parish, Louisiana, 70631, United States
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Aramco signed a preliminary agreement with Commonwealth LNG, developer of a planned 9.5 mtpa export plant near Cameron, Louisiana, on Aramco Trading potentially buying its LNG, and Aramco-backed MidOcean Energy signed an MoU on investing in Lake Charles LNG. Both were among 17 US deals Aramco announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Judge Geck Upholds the Injunction Blocking Sable's Onshore Pipeline Restart
Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore…
Starts 02/27/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE209 days agoStated as a completed action, per biologicaldiversity.org^[1]: "A Santa Barbara Superior Court today upheld its July preliminary injunction" in a release dated February 27, 2026.
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Aramco Signs $3.7 Billion in Deals With French Companies in Paris
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Starts 08/24/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE31 days agoStated as firm, per aramco.com^[1]'s release dated "DHAHRAN|AUGUST 24, 2026": Aramco "today announced agreements and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a potential combined value of more than $3.7 billion with French companies".
At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.
$3.7B
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zalando Closes Its Erfurt Fulfilment Centre
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Starts 09/30/2026SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 6 daysZalando's^[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.
Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.
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Stated as done, per The National (published 2 March 2026): 'Saudi Aramco has shut down operations at its Ras Tanura refinery after a fire broke out following a reported drone attack'; SANA's^[6] 2 March report says the shutdown happened 'on Monday'.

Start: Mar 2, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Drone Strike Shuts Aramco's Ras Tanura Refinery

Debris from two intercepted drones, launched as Iran struck its Gulf neighbours, started a fire at Saudi Arabia's largest domestic refinery, a 550,000 barrel-a-day plant, and Aramco halted it as a precaution.

Aramco shut its Ras Tanura refinery on 2 March 2026 after a fire broke out following a drone attack during Iran's strikes on its Gulf neighbours, halting loadings at the 550,000 barrel-a-day plant^[1]
Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry said two drones were intercepted and destroyed and their debris caused a limited fire that was quickly contained; the Energy Ministry said some units were halted as a precaution, no one was hurt and domestic fuel supply was unaffected^[6]
Brent rose to nearly $80 a barrel; The National said the attack would mark the first Iranian strike on the Gulf's energy infrastructure, days after a disruption at the nearby Juaymah LPG terminal^[1]
Ras Tanura was hit again by a projectile on 4 March, and Saudi Arabia began shifting product exports to Yanbu on the Red Sea^[2]
On 10 March Aramco said the refinery was restarting; the Ras Tanura terminal's crude loadings stayed halted for nearly four months, until 26 June^[3][4]

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thenationalnews.com/business/2026/03/02/saudi-aramco-shuts-down-ras-tanura-refinery-following-drone-attack
thenationalnews.com· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Mar 2, 2026 ✓· 24% of score
Stated as done, per The National (published 2 March 2026): 'Saudi Aramco has shut down operations at its Ras Tanura refinery after a fire broke out following a reported drone attack'; SANA's^[6] 2 March report says the shutdown happened 'on Monday'.
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Saudi Arabia in the 2026 Iran war
en.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 24, 2026· 24% of score
Wikipedia's account of the 2 March strike, the second hit on 4 March, the shift of exports to Yanbu and the refinery's reopening.
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Saudi Aramco helicopter crash in Ras Tanura kills all 14 on board
aljazeera.com· Published Jun 28, 2026· 17% of score
Al Jazeera/Reuters, 28 June 2026: on Friday Aramco resumed crude loading at the Ras Tanura terminal after a halt of nearly four months caused by the war on Iran.
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Dow Jones Top Company Headlines at 5 AM ET: Saudi Aramco Says Ras Tanura Refinery Restarts After Drone Attack
morningstar.com· Published Mar 10, 2026· 11% of score
Dow Jones via Morningstar, 10 March 2026: Aramco said its Ras Tanura refinery was restarting after the drone attack.
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I - On Defense Podcast: President Trump on Iran Strikes: The Big One is Coming Soon + IDF: 600 Iranian Targets Destroyed + IDF Marks Hezbollah Chief "Target for Elimination" + France Ready to Defend Jordan & Gulf Nations Against Iran Attacks
podcasts.apple.com· Published Mar 3, 2026· 11% of score
I - On Defense Podcast's episode "President Trump on Iran Strikes: The Big One is Coming Soon + IDF: 600 Iranian Targets Destroyed + IDF Marks Hezbollah Chief "Target for Elimination" + France Ready to Defend Jordan & Gulf Nations Against Iran Attacks" (2026-03-03) says: "Monday. 5. Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Aramco shut its Ras Tanura refinery after a drone strike caused a blaze, an industry source said on Monday , after Tehran launched"^[1]

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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Helicopter Crash Near Ras Tanura Kills All 14 Aboard
Saudi AramcoRas Tannurah Governorate, Eastern Province, 32811, Saudi Arabia
Starts 06/28/2026 3:00AMCONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE88 days agoStated as done, per Al Jazeera^[1]/Reuters citing SPA and the Energy Ministry: 'The helicopter belonging to the Saudi Aramco oil company crashed in Ras Tanura at around 6am (03:00 GMT)' on 28 June 2026.
A Leonardo AW139 carrying oil workers back from Aramco's offshore fields crashed on approach to Ras Tanura at about 6 a.m., killing its two pilots and 12 passengers, all Saudi nationals.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Drone strike breaches Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Starts 02/14/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE1.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: a Russian "Geran-2" drone struck the New Safe Confinement structure at approximately 1:50 a.m. on February 14, 2025.
A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Huajin Aramco's Panjin Refinery and Petrochemical Complex Starts Up
Dawa District, Panjin City, Liaoning, ChinaSaudi Aramco
Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysEstimated, per aramco.com^[1]: the complex "is expected to be fully operational by 2026" (a bare year, so its last day); Energy Intelligence (Oct 2025) says it is on track to come "on line next year", and Splash (Sep 2026) reports it in "final commissioning and start-up preparations" with no date.
A 300,000 b/d refinery with 1.65 million tonnes a year of ethylene and 2 million tonnes of paraxylene in Panjin, Liaoning, built by Aramco's joint venture with NORINCO and Panjin Xincheng for RMB 83.7 billion. Aramco will supply up to 210,000 barrels a day of its crude.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Agrees to Sell Its PRefChem Stake to PETRONAS
JALAN PIC T/1, Petrochemical Complex, Kota Tinggi, Johor, MalaysiaSaudi Aramco
Starts 05/25/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE122 days agoStated as firm, per petronas.com^[4]: "KUALA LUMPUR, 25 May 2026 - PETRONAS announces that its subsidiary ... has signed an agreement to acquire the equity stake held by Saudi Arabian Oil Company"; Aramco's^[1][2] own newsroom dates the joint announcement May 24, 2026.
Aramco signed an agreement to transfer its stakes in the PRefChem refinery and petrochemical complex at Pengerang, Johor to PETRONAS, which will own and run it outright. Aramco committed $7 billion to the 300,000 b/d project in 2017; the sale comes as the Strait of Hormuz closure cut Saudi crude flows to Asia.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
S-Oil's Shaheen Petrochemical Complex Starts Commercial Operation
S-OilS-oil, Onsan-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 45001, South Korea
Starts 01/31/2027DELAYED4 weeks late66% CONFIDENCEin 129 daysDelayed, per iusm.co.kr^[1]: S-Oil told its 3 August 2026 call it is "2027년 초 상업가동을 목표로" (targeting commercial operation in early 2027) after pre-commissioning and start-up; KBS (Feb 2026) gives the target as January 2027, so the month's last day.
S-Oil's 9.26 trillion won Shaheen complex at its Onsan refinery in Ulsan, with the world's first commercial Thermal Crude-to-Chemicals unit and a 1.8 million-tonne ethylene cracker, is due to start commercial operation in early 2027. Aramco is S-Oil's largest shareholder.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Closes $11 Billion Jafurah Midstream Deal With GIP-Led Consortium
Al Jafurah, Al Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
10/28/2025 - 10/27/2045CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE331 days agoStated as done, per aramco.com^[1][6] (dateline 'DHAHRAN|OCTOBER 28, 2025'): Aramco 'today announced the completion of an $11 billion lease and leaseback investment agreement'; Argaam^[4] and SPA^[3] carry the same 28 October date. The end is the 20-year term ('leasing them back to Aramco under a 20-year agreement') counted from that completion, exclusive.
Investors led by BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners take 49% of Jafurah Midstream Gas Company, which leases the Jafurah gas plant and Riyas NGL facility back to Aramco for 20 years in return for a tariff.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco's Zuluf Crude Oil Increment Completes
Saudi AramcoZuluf Oilfield
Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysA target year, per Aramco's^[2][3] Q2 2026 results release: 'Zuluf crude oil increment and Fadhili Gas Plant expansion on track for completion in 2026 and 2027, respectively' - a bare year, so its last day.
The offshore Zuluf increment, whose associated gas feeds the new Tanajib Gas Plant, is on track for completion in 2026 after Marjan came on stream in December 2025.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Reports Q2 2026 Results: $33.4B Profit as Hormuz Shock Lifts Prices
Eastern Avenue, Gharb Adh Dhahran, Dhahran, Dammam, Dammam Governorate, Eastern Province, 34464, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
Starts 08/04/2026 5:00AMCONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE51 days agoStated as firm: the Saudi Exchange^[2] announcement "Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco^[1]) Announces its Interim Financial Results for the Period Ended 2026-06-30 (Six Months)" is stamped 04/08/2026 08:00:22 Riyadh time (05:00 UTC), and Aramco's investor page says it "published its half-year 2026 results on August 4, 2026" (the newsroom's "AUGUST 03" is a display-timezone artefact).
Aramco's second-quarter adjusted net income rose 33% to $33.4 billion as prices surged with the Strait of Hormuz disrupted by the Iran war, while exports kept flowing through the East-West Pipeline. It declared a $21.9 billion base dividend; first-half adjusted profit reached $67.2 billion.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Signs US LNG Deals With Commonwealth LNG and MidOcean
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Starts 11/19/2025CONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE309 days agoStated as firm, per aramco.com^[1]'s release dated "DHAHRAN|NOVEMBER 19, 2025": Aramco "has announced 17 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and agreements", announced "today" to coincide with "the US-Saudi Investment Forum 2025 in Washington, DC".
Aramco signed a preliminary agreement with Commonwealth LNG, developer of a planned 9.5 mtpa export plant near Cameron, Louisiana, on Aramco Trading potentially buying its LNG, and Aramco-backed MidOcean Energy signed an MoU on investing in Lake Charles LNG. Both were among 17 US deals Aramco announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.
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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Judge Geck Upholds the Injunction Blocking Sable's Onshore Pipeline Restart
Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore…
Starts 02/27/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE209 days agoStated as a completed action, per biologicaldiversity.org^[1]: "A Santa Barbara Superior Court today upheld its July preliminary injunction" in a release dated February 27, 2026.
A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Signs $3.7 Billion in Deals With French Companies in Paris
Saudi AramcoParis, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, France
Starts 08/24/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE31 days agoStated as firm, per aramco.com^[1]'s release dated "DHAHRAN|AUGUST 24, 2026": Aramco "today announced agreements and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a potential combined value of more than $3.7 billion with French companies".
At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.
$3.7B
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Labour09/23/2026@EconDesk
Zalando Closes Its Erfurt Fulfilment Centre
ZalandoZalando Logistics, 1, In der Hochstedter Ecke, GVZ Erfurt, Hochstedt, Büßleben, Erfurt, Thuringia, 99098, Germany
Starts 09/30/2026SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 6 daysZalando's^[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.
Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.
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