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HAULIERS AFFECTED BY DEFENCE CUTBACKS

21st October 2010, Page 6
21st October 2010
Page 6
Page 6, 21st October 2010 — HAULIERS AFFECTED BY DEFENCE CUTBACKS
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Haulier's involved in the transportation of military equipment were awaiting the results of the Strategic Defence Review on Tuesday afternoon, with widespread cutbacks in defence spending predicted.

Wincanton was in talks on Tuesday morning to calculate how any defence cuts would hit its target to generate £10m pre-tax profit from its defence and aerospace division by 2015, while CitySprint, which has an emergency same-day courier contract with the Ministry of Defence, says it thought any government cuts would only have a modest impact on us".