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Loss of paper work is laymore's final cut
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by Jennifer Ball per dIstrbutor Claymore Transport has shut haulage operations after 25 years following a loss of a major contract with International per. The Inverurie-based company, which ran a at of 12 trucks, says that 14 people have been ado redundant as a result of the closure.
"We lost the contract and it was going to be ry difficult to replace so we have decided to ,e up our haulage business. We will be carrying with farming operations," says managing
• ector Ian Forsyth.
The firm is one of many companies to be hit by shake-up of paper distribution contracts in rth-east Scotland and International Paper's oision to transfer its work to two Aberdeensed firms, ARR Craib Transport and hley Transport.
In February HG McBain near Banff closed wn after it lost its contract with Independent per, which previously accounted for 90% of its rk. A spokesman said then that there was little ance of replacing the work unless it went after other people's business and cut its rates, which it was not prepared to do.
Aberdeen-based Sandy Bruce Trucking also made jobs cuts as result of losing its paper contracts and a consortium of 17 owner-drivers was also dropped by the group,