Transport and logistics company, Northline, has announced it will invest in new facilities with work on a new $30 million Perth distribution centre (DC) to be completed in January 2019.

Located at 84 Logistics Boulevard, Kenwick, the DC will facilitate B-double and road train movements and occupy a 30,000-square-metre site, with 19,525 square metres under cover including 11,000 square metres of warehousing.

According to the company, its location in Perth’s south-eastern suburbs will provide Northline with easy access to both the Roe and Tonkin Highways, while still being only a few minutes from Perth Airport and the Kewdale Freight Terminal.

The new location reportedly offers improved road-rail connectivity, an increasingly important part of Northline’s business in Western Australia, and improve speed and efficiency by giving the company greater capacity.

Northline Chief Executive Officer, Craige Whitton, said Perth is an important market for Northline for servicing its national customers and assisting them to better service their customers throughout Western Australia.

“Northline provides an unrivalled delivery schedule from Western Australia to Adelaide, Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane,” he said.

“Western Australia regional areas are serviced daily by the Northline’s Perth-wide road-based network. The new facility recognises the need to provide multi-modal solutions through the integration of road, rail and air freight, and warehousing and inventory management.

“Northline’s investment is a vote of confidence in the Western Australian economy which is showing positive signs of improvement through recent sustained growth in commodity prices. We’re also seeing strong growth in key industry sectors including mining, construction and retail.”

Last month, Northline was awarded an end-to-end logistics contract for one of Australia’s biggest solar farms.