Scotline calls in liquidators as it faces £600,000 rates bill at Goole

Scotline has been forced to put its Humber terminal into liquidation after receiving a court summons over a £600,000 backdated rates bill.

The terminal at the Port of Goole, which handles up to 200,000 m3 of timber imports a year, has ceased trading and ten people have lost their jobs.

“We have received a very large summons for backdated rates which the company is unable to pay and which technically makes the company grossly insolvent,” said Scotline director Peter Millatt. The shipping and terminals group will continue to operate its terminals at Rochester and Inverness.

Port companies around England and Wales have been campaigning long and hard against massive business rates bills that have been backdated to 2005.

(Source: Port Strategy)