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RR: the misery spreads to hauliers
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• by Guy Sheppard The global slump in the aviation industry following the September 11 terror attacks an America is about to hit UK hauliers working for aeroengine maker Rolls-Royce, The company is to cut 3,800 jobs overall in the UK and 1,200 overseas after warning that deliveries of engines for civil aircraft will drop by nearly a third next year.
Last year TNT Logistics won a three-year contract to deliver parts between RollsRoyce's UK sites and to move complete engines to airlines and manufacturers.
A TNT spokeswoman says 40 people work on the contract but adds that it is too early to
say if there will be any job losses.
Air Cargo Transport, based at East Midlands Airport, is one of several subcontractors working for Rolls-Royce through TNT, Owner Harold Adkin warns that the knock-on effects will he devastating: "We do anything they (TNT) can't do. It's about 20% of our work. We might have to cut back; we're keeping our fingers crossed that things will turn round a bit more."
Adkin adds that next week his company, which runs 10 tractors and 15 trailers, is due to take delivery of a £50,000 trailer specially adapted to carry aero-engines.
Derby-based Foxtrot Carriers is another subcontractor delivering aero-engine parts for Rolls-Royce.
Managing director John Wood says: At this moment we really don't know what impact it will have but we are st expecting to he working ft them." The company amnia) 15 people.