Swift starts work on coal contract
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• Swift Transport Services has started work on its Um contract with British Coal to run a dedicated equipment distribution operation over the next three years.
The Northampton-based firm won the contract after the John Dee Group went into receivership. Swift will run 31 vehicles, ranging from 38-tonners to vans, delivering to all British Coal's collieries from a central supply centre in Fence, Lancs.
The contract involves taking emergency consignments from Fence at 45 minutes' notice. The company, part of the LEP Swift group, already distributes workshop parts for British Rail.
All vehicles will be liveried in Swift colours. The company has contract distribution deals with Unipart and Massey-Ferguson until now it has specialised in the automotive market. British Coal put the contract out to tender following John Dee's collapse.