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New rate won't 'cover losses'

29th January 1998
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by David Craik • Preston-based haulage subcontractor Charles Mayor has quit working with Mersey Docks & Harbour subsidiary Coastal Container Lines just days after a 7% rate increase was announced (CM 15-21 January).

Lajos Elo, senior partner at Charles Mayor, says the 7% increase "won't rectify the losses accrued from working with Coastal". The company, which has been with Coastal for three-and a-half years, originally had 16 trucks working the contract, but this had dwindled to seven.

Elo claims that travelling from Seaforth to Shoreham is no longer economical.

Duncan Beaumont, Coastal's group logistics manager, says Charles Mayor has been unhappy since guaranteed payments to certain subcontractors were taken away last October. He adds that since news broke of the 7% rise existing hauliers have applied to increase their fleets with Coastal, and new hauliers have applied for work.

Coastal says that the new rates were agreed at a meeting of all subcontractors and Charles Mayor should have said that it was unhappy then and there, but it did not.

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