P&O FERRIES HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-24 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£40K
-99.3% vs 2023
Net assets
-£236M
-2.1% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£5M
-59,600% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £28,000 | £73,000 | |
| Operating profit | £8,000 | £53,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £8,000 | -£4,760,000 | |
| Net profit | £8,000 | -£4,777,000 | |
| Cash | £5,767,000 | £40,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£74,062,000 | -£77,061,000 | |
| Net assets | -£231,588,000 | -£236,365,000 | |
| Equity | -£231,588,000 | -£236,365,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+160.7%
£28,000 £73,000
-
Cash
-99.3%
£5,767,000 £40,000
-
Net assets
-2.1%
-£231,588,000 -£236,365,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+562.5%
£8,000 £53,000
-
Profit before tax
-59,600%
£8,000 -£4,760,000
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 28.6% | 72.6% | |
| Net margin | 28.6% | — | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.0% | -0.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.19x | 0.36x | |
| Interest cover | — | 0.01x |
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. Margin ratios are hidden where reported turnover is too small relative to profit to yield a meaningful figure — typical of holding companies whose income is mostly subsidiary dividends rather than trading revenue. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- P&O FERRIES HOLDINGS LIMITED 2007-03-02 → present
- GOLFHURST LIMITED 2006-12-29 → 2007-03-02
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Just Audit & Assurance Ltd
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The Company relies upon the continuation of the Intermediate Parent Company Group's operations and the Group has taken further actions to improve and strengthen its financial position. Further, via a letter of support, DP World Limited has indicated that it will make available necessary funding over the period of assessment of going concern.”
Group structure
- P&O FERRIES HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- P&O Short Sea Ferries Limited 100%
- P&O Ferries Thames Limited 100%
- P&O European Ferries (Portsmouth) Limited 100%
- P&O European Ferries (Irish Sea) Limited 100%
- P&O Ferries Pride of Hull Limited 100%
- P&O North Sea Ferries Limited 100%
- P&O Ferries Pride of Rotterdam BV 100%
- P&O Ferries Limited 100%
- P&O Ferries Ship Management Limited 100%
- P&O North Sea Ferries BV 100%
- P&O European Ferries (Vizcaya) SA 100%
- Norbay (UK) Limited 100%
- P&O Ferries France SAS 100%
- SNC Gris-Nez Bail 0%
- SNC White Cliffs Bail 0%
- P&O Ferries (Short Sea) Limited 100%
- P&O Ferries Port Services Limited 100%
- P&O Ship Management (Irish Sea) Limited 100%
- P&O European Ferries (Bahamas) Limited 100%
- North Sea Ferries (Belgium) NV 100%
- P&O Ferries Cyprus Limited 100%
Significant events
- “delivery of new vessels for the Dover-Calais route”
- “decision to close the Teessport-Zeebrugge route”
- “new booking systems and website”
- “Covid 19 pandemic and other challenges”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 32 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KACHELO, Anoushka Rafia | Secretary | 2024-12-31 | — | — |
| MOOS, Kasper | Director | 2025-10-20 | Mar 1976 | Danish |
| PATEL, Tushar | Director | 2025-08-28 | Dec 1971 | British |
Show 32 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUGARD, Ellice | Secretary | 2019-10-14 | 2020-11-01 |
| KITCHIN, Susan Frances | Secretary | 2007-03-01 | 2019-10-11 |
| MITCHELL, Amelia | Secretary | 2020-11-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| CLIFFORD CHANCE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2006-12-29 | 2007-03-01 |
| BAILEY, Christopher Bryan | Director | 2019-01-07 | 2022-05-23 |
| BARRY, Owen | Director | 2022-08-05 | 2024-09-13 |
| BELL, Janette Susan | Director | 2012-05-15 | 2020-08-10 |
| CAIRNS, Terence Charles | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2009-07-01 |
| COBY, Paul Johnathan | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2016-05-01 |
| COTTON, Lesley Anne | Director | 2011-02-01 | 2021-03-31 |
| DAELMAN, Ronald Frans Marie | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2010-12-17 |
| DEEBLE, Helen | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2017-12-31 |
| GARNER, John Phillip | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2019-01-14 |
| HEBBLETHWAITE, Peter Douglas Gerald | Director | 2019-01-14 | 2025-09-01 |
| HOWARTH, Karl | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2022-03-31 |
| JOHNSON, Simon Richard | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2010-12-17 |
| KRISTENSEN, Jesper | Director | 2022-08-03 | 2025-01-15 |
| LAMING, Christopher John | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2010-12-17 |
| LEVY, Adrian Joseph Morris | Director | 2006-12-29 | 2007-03-01 |
| MACKENZIE, Susan Mary | Director | 2009-07-01 | 2018-05-09 |
| MOWATT, Clive Andrew | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2009-03-31 |
| NARAYAN, Prasad | Director | 2022-08-03 | 2025-04-10 |
| O'DWYER, Michael Charles | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2010-11-30 |
| OAKLEY, Tina Mary | Director | 2009-03-31 | 2010-09-24 |
| ODINIUS, Andre | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2022-05-31 |
| PUDGE, David John | Director | 2006-12-29 | 2007-03-01 |
| REEVES, Andrew | Director | 2007-03-01 | 2010-09-08 |
| RUNGE, Thorsten | Director | 2020-06-01 | 2022-05-31 |
| STEER, John | Director | 2025-04-10 | 2025-10-20 |
| STRETCH, David | Director | 2018-10-01 | 2021-11-23 |
| WECHSLER, Tom | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2020-02-28 |
| WOODS, Robert Barclay | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2014-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P&O Ferries Division Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 125 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-10-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-30 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2025-04-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | RP04AP03 | officers | Second filing of secretary appointment with name | |
| 2025-01-04 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-01-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.