HEYSHAM PORT LIMITED

1. HEYSHAM PORT LIMITED 1990-03-12 → present
2. BURGINHALL 416 LIMITED 1989-11-29 → 1990-03-12

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

BDO LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and for this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”

Group structure

1. HEYSHAM PORT LIMITED · parent
   1. Leeside Shipping Limited · Cork · small freight forwarding business

Significant events

• “An interim dividend of £12.0m (2024: £7.0m) was paid during the year.”
• “For the year ended 31 March 2025, the Group had targeted a Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) of 0.36. TRIR includes lost time incidents, restricted workday incidents and medical treatment incidents. Although this target was not achieved, with a final TRIR of 0.38 being 0.02 higher than the target, progress has been made since the previous year (2024: 0.40).”
• “The introduction of portable pilot units, which provides an enhanced navigation awareness support to pilots, has been rolled-out across the Group during the year ended 31 March 2025.”
• “The triennial actuarial valuation of the Peel Ports Group Final Salary Pension Scheme, as at 5 April 2024, was completed in the year ended 31 March 2025 with the valuation disclosing an overall positive funding position with no requirement for any additional deficit contributions beyond the previous recovery plan ending November 2024.”
• “During the year ended 31 March 2025, the Board approved a number of proposals to invest in port assets that directly and indirectly support customers who use those ports. This included significant new investment at Heysham Port to boost capacity and efficiency, primarily to support increased freight and passenger traffic...”
• “In March 2025, the Board approved the acquisition of Leeside Shipping Limited, a small freight forwarding business in Cork that provides services to BG Freight Line BV as well as other companies looking to import or export via the Port of Cork.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +4.6%

  £17,500,000 → £18,300,000

• Cash

  +15.8%

  £1,900,000 → £2,200,000

• Net assets

  -50.5%

  £10,900,000 → £5,400,000

• Employees

  0%

  71 → 71

• Operating profit

  +43.9%

  £5,700,000 → £8,200,000

• Profit before tax

  +55.6%

  £4,500,000 → £7,000,000

• Wages

  +6.5%

  £3,100,000 → £3,300,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers