Suma Logistics Ltd, based at The Gatehouse on Etruscan Street, entered administration on 1 May 2026, according to a notice in The London Gazette. The firm was incorporated on 27 January 2024 — meaning it lasted 27 months from launch to collapse.
Steven John Currie and Sophie Leigh Murcott of Currie Young Limited have been appointed as joint administrators. The company’s registered office and trading address are both at The Gatehouse. Its Companies House entry lists it under SIC code 49410, freight transport by road. The firm is still recorded as active on Companies House, which usually reflects legal status during administration rather than continued trading.
There is little public trace of how large the operation was. The company’s website is still a basic “site under construction” placeholder.
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Almost double the insolvencies since Brexit
The collapse adds to a steady stream of UK road freight failures. Parliamentary figures published earlier this year show 401 UK road freight companies entered insolvency in 2025. That was down from 503 in 2023, but the longer view is harsh: 2,051 firms in the sector went under between 2021 and 2025, against 1,068 between 2016 and 2020 — close to a doubling in the post-Brexit period.
Trans.INFO reported last month that UK road haulage insolvencies had almost doubled since Brexit, drawing on the same parliamentary data.
Costs up, rates down, cushion gone
Operators have spent the past few years absorbing higher fuel, insurance, maintenance, finance and labour costs while spot-market rates remain weak and undercutting is widespread. Smaller firms with less of a cushion have been the first to go.
Suma Logistics is not alone this spring. Several UK haulage and logistics firms have entered administration or liquidation in recent weeks, including Staffordshire-based UK Drivers & Logistics Solutions, where administrators later agreed a sale of the business.
The administrators have not yet published further details on Suma Logistics. Filings so far give no indication of whether a sale of the business, assets or contracts is being pursued.
