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SYNTEX LOGISTICS can contrnue trading as long as an employee with Irks to a firm that lost its licence is not involved with its management.
The Felixstowe-based business appeared before Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms to defend its repute after it emerged that Hussein Ahmed, an ex-director of 3PL Solutions, was employed by the company.
Simms had refused to grant an 0-licence to 3PL Solutions after the bosses of Hanbury Davies and W Carter Haulage alleged that Ahmed might be running away from his debts (CM 26 October 2006). This followed Ahmed's attempt to buy the assets of his previous company, Gipping Container Services, from administrators.
Simms decided Syntex Logistics retained its good repute and granted a variation application — but extracted an undertaking on Ahmed's role in the company.
A spokeswoman for the Eastern Traffic Area Office says: The licensed operator undertakes to make proper arrangements so that, notwithstanding the description of Hussein Ahmed in the context of his employment as a manager, [he] is not, and will not, be concerned directly or indirectly in any managerial aspect of Syntex Logistics." Director Nicholas Lindsay declined to comment.