Dutch based logistics provider, CEVA Logistics has announced that the company has been retained by Western Australia’s Western Power Corporation to manage the supply chain requirements of the electricity network corporation. 

The new contract between CEVA and Western Power, will see CEVA provide integrated logistic services to Western Power, throughout the corporations electricity network, one of the largest isolated electricity networks in the world.

Western Power operates over 88,000 kilometres of power lines that supply power to almost 900,000 properties across an area stretching from stretching from Kalbarri in the north, to Kalgoorlie in the east and south to Albany.  The broad geographic area also including the metropolitan area of Perth(*).

Commenting on the new arrangements between CEVA and Western Power, the Managing Director for CEVA Logistics in Australia, Howard Critchley, said that the new partnership “further strengthens CEVA’s service capability, infrastructure and network in Western Australia and will encompass the provision of warehousing services, materials handling and transportation operations.”

Critchley also noted in his remarks that, “importantly, as part of the service solution for Western Power, CEVA will manage a range of specialised and often heavy goods such as transformers, cable, street lighting, and telecommunications equipment under controlled conditions for short and long periods”.

The Managing Director for Western Power, Doug Aberle, also welcomed the agreement with CEVA, indicating that the partnership would deliver improved customer service and provide Western power with an integrated transport and logistics solution for intrastate services to Western Power depots and construction sites.

Source: CEVA Logistics and Western Power Corporation

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