Haulage firm collapses with loss of more than 200 jobs

A HAULAGE firm with two Yorkshire bases has collapsed with the immediate loss of more than 200 jobs.

Deben Transport was based in Felixstowe, Suffolk and had eight depots across England, including Leeds and Doncaster.

Its most recent accounts, for the year to December 2013, showed a loss of £660,000 on turnover of £34.1m. At that stage it employed 278 people, but that had been reduced by around 50 people as the company unsuccessfully tried to stem its losses.

In a statement the administrators Ensors said: “Management had attempted to put in place a recovery plan and had recently taken cost-cutting measures in an effort to turn the business around.

“But it became apparent that its immediate short-term funding requirement could not be met and the director took the decision to place the company into administration.

“Regrettably the majority of the workforce had to be made redundant once administration was inevitable.”