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Scottish directors cleclared bankrupt
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i by Dominic Perry Scottish transport firm and )e two partners running the oniony have been declared ankrupt after failing to pay off leir debts to a Dutch haulier. Macconnachie International .ansport (MIT), based in untly, Aberdeenshire and run y husband and wife team
ranam and Mary lacconnachie, ran up debts of round 17,000DG (g4,800) with fieringerwerf-based Bert Mein • ansport in unpaid bills.
FOIICANkV court action last eek accountants KPMG have ow been confirmed as interim .ustees.
At least three other transort companies allege that they re owed substantial sums by IIT dating back several years. hese include Norfolk-based obin International Transport, ,hich claims it is owed £20,000;
Scottish owner-driver Eoin Robertson who says he Is owed 1.10,500: and another Scottish haulier who declined to be identified but claims over £50,000.
This is not the first time that a firm partly managed by coowner Graham Macconnachie, has run into financial difficulties. He was previously a director with Buckle-based Go Transport that ceased trading in December 1999 with substantial debts.
Mein says his dispute with M1T's joint owner Graham Macconnachie stems from an incident in which his driver was hauling a trailer belonging to MIT's Dutch operation and discovered that it had defective brakes.
Mein claims his driver waited for nearly 18 hours until a repairman arrived and that Macconnachie refused to pay the bill for waiting time.
The relationship deteriorated further when return loads from Scotland allegedly never materialised, leaving Main's driver to return home empty Mein says that shortly afterwards Macconnachie stopped paying his bills Mein says he has been forced to reduce his fleet as a result of the unpaid debt: "I feel let down by him. In Holland we don't do business like this."
Macconnachie's fellow director at Go Transport, Alexander Fairfull, says that he would never do business with him again.
CM has made repeated attempts to contact Macconnachie but has had no response. A spokesman for KPMG says that It is too early to say if creditors will receive any money from the realisation of thefirm's assets.