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Lafarge has awarded Babcock International Group a £100m ten-year contract to provide a fleet managed service for its Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME) located across its Aggregate and Cement sites in North America. The programme follows the £50m fleet management contract awarded to Babcock in July 2011, which covers Lafarge’s Aggregate and Cement sites in the UK.
Babcock is delivering a whole lifecycle approach to managing Lafarge’s fleet of vehicles and equipment, from procuring and supporting the equipment through to arranging equipment disposal. The contract covers HME including vehicles such as loaders, heavy rigid and articulated trucks, excavators, and bulldozers. Through Babcock’s proven partnering approach, Lafarge will be able to focus on their core activity of delivering world class materials, whilst benefitting from the efficiencies, a multi jurisdictional overview of its fleet operations, and the sharing of best practice that this new service will deliver.
Said Neal Misell, Babcock’s Managing Director, Mobile Assets: “This contract marks a significant milestone with Lafarge. Following the successful UK roll out, our dedicated team in North America is ready to deliver the highest level of support to Lafarge’s Aggregates and Cement businesses, enabling transformation in the way the fleet is operated and managed.”
Babcock currently manages close on 30,000 vehicles and over 176,000 equipment stock lines globally. This includes a 16 year PFI C vehicles capability contract to deploy and support 2,200 engineering support vehicles around the world on behalf of the Royal Engineers and Royal Logistics Corps, the White Fleet contract providing a range of over 14,000 vehicles to the Ministry of Defence, as well as managing British Airways’ UK airside vehicles and the Metropolitan Police Service’s operational fleet. Using ALCAMiE, its unique proven method of delivery, Babcock transforms that way that customers optimise their fleet and equipment availability, improving performance and reducing the lifetime costs of ownership and uncertainly.
