INDEPENDENT PORT HANDLING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-06 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+43.7% vs 2023
Net assets
-£541K
-1.5% vs 2023
Employees
440
+12.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£2K
+99.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- INDEPENDENT PORT HANDLING LIMITED 2008-11-05 → present
- MARCHWOOD PORT HANDLING LIMITED 2008-01-16 → 2008-11-05
- INHOCO 4221 LIMITED 2007-10-23 → 2008-01-16
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £14,772,331 | £15,142,661 | |
| Operating profit | -£484,229 | £153,143 | |
| Profit before tax | -£642,479 | -£1,535 | |
| Net profit | -£642,479 | -£1,535 | |
| Cash | £745,410 | £1,071,323 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £257,331 | £501,107 | |
| Net assets | -£532,928 | -£541,173 | |
| Equity | -£540,176 | -£541,173 | |
| Average employees | 390 | 440 | |
| Wages | £7,052,375 | £7,377,703 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.3% | 1.0% | |
| Net margin | -4.3% | -0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -188.2% | 30.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 106.6% | 106.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.84x | 0.89x | |
| Interest cover | -3.06x | 0.97x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the Group directors have monitored year to date performance against budget in 2025 and have performed additional reforecasts to the end of 2026. The Group has refinanced its long term loans as set out in note 20 and the Group is expected to remain in a strong financial position over the forecast period. Going concern stress tests with differing scenarios for all the business units of the Company and its trading subsidiaries have also been considered. The conclusion of these stress tests is that the business has sufficient headroom and can trade for the next 12 months comfortably within its current banking facilities across the forecast period.”
Group structure
- INDEPENDENT PORT HANDLING LIMITED · parent
- Southern Maritime Services Limited 100%
- Pathfinder Personnel Sheerness Limited 100%
- Southampton Cargo Handling Limited 100%
- Cruise and Passenger Services Limited 100%
- Pathfinder Personnel Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Company has repaid the CBILS loan obtained in 2020 and has re-mortgaged its freehold premises.”
- “Subsequent to the year end, the Company received loans amounting to £158,321 from the majority shareholder and companies under their common control.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESS, Stephen William | Director | 2008-10-01 | Dec 1952 | British |
| SIMM, Jonathan David | Director | 2022-11-01 | Nov 1965 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Huw Llewelyn Francis | Director | 2019-02-12 | Nov 1958 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAWLES, Louis John | Secretary | 2009-04-27 | 2014-07-01 |
| WILLIAMS, Alexander | Secretary | 2008-10-01 | 2009-04-27 |
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2007-10-23 | 2008-10-01 |
| DIGHE, Ian Robert | Director | 2008-02-04 | 2016-02-29 |
| DOWLEY, Laurence Justin | Director | 2008-02-20 | 2016-02-29 |
| LEVER, Paul Ronald Scott | Director | 2008-02-04 | 2016-02-29 |
| RAWLES, Louis John | Director | 2009-04-27 | 2019-02-12 |
| SIMM, Jonathan David | Director | 2018-06-01 | 2019-10-01 |
| WILLIAMS, John Howard | Director | 2008-10-01 | 2013-11-19 |
| INHOCO FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2007-10-23 | 2008-02-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Stephen William Burgess | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 98 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-01-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-01-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-27 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-15 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2024-01-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-01-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-01-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-01-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-01-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-11-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-04-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-03-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+2.5%
£14,772,331 £15,142,661
-
Cash
+43.7%
£745,410 £1,071,323
-
Net assets
-1.5%
-£532,928 -£541,173
-
Employees
+12.8%
390 440
-
Operating profit
+131.6%
-£484,229 £153,143
-
Profit before tax
+99.8%
-£642,479 -£1,535
-
Wages
+4.6%
£7,052,375 £7,377,703
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers