THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY (L2) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-01 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-15
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
+23.8% vs 2023
Net assets
-£24M
-91.2% vs 2023
Employees
703
-2.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£11M
+3.4% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £48,400,000 | £51,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£11,000,000 | -£9,700,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£11,800,000 | -£11,400,000 | |
| Net profit | -£11,900,000 | -£11,400,000 | |
| Cash | £2,100,000 | £2,600,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,000,000 | £5,200,000 | |
| Net assets | -£12,500,000 | -£23,900,000 | |
| Equity | -£12,500,000 | -£23,900,000 | |
| Average employees | 721 | 703 | |
| Wages | £32,100,000 | £32,300,000 | |
| 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
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Turnover
+5.4%
£48,400,000 £51,000,000
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Cash
+23.8%
£2,100,000 £2,600,000
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Net assets
-91.2%
-£12,500,000 -£23,900,000
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Employees
-2.5%
721 703
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Operating profit
+11.8%
-£11,000,000 -£9,700,000
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Profit before tax
+3.4%
-£11,800,000 -£11,400,000
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Wages
+0.6%
£32,100,000 £32,300,000
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 | -22.7% | -19.0% | |
| Net margin | -24.6% | -22.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -366.7% | -186.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 183.3% | 228.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.25x | 1.37x | |
| Interest cover | -13.75x | -5.71x |
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
“As referred to in note 3 to the financial statements, 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
- THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR COMPANY (L2) LIMITED · parent
- MDHC Container Services Limited 1%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, Farook Akhtar | Secretary | 2019-02-28 | — | — |
| BOU MALHAB, José | Director | 2025-01-08 | Jul 1989 | French |
| CLARK, Jason Lee | Director | 2024-01-08 | Feb 1972 | British |
| GREGORY, Michael Anthony | Director | 2020-01-15 | Aug 1982 | British |
| SCHÄFFERS, Johannes Christianus Hubertus | Director | 2023-12-12 | Jan 1961 | Dutch |
| SMITH, Russell | Director | 2023-10-02 | Feb 1968 | Australian |
| VERITIERO, Claudio | Director | 2022-04-01 | Sep 1973 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARRISON GILL, Caroline Ruth | Secretary | 2019-02-28 | 2020-04-08 |
| BOU MALHAB, José | Director | 2021-12-16 | 2023-12-12 |
| CHARNOCK, Ian Graeme Lloyd | Director | 2019-02-28 | 2022-04-01 |
| CHELLE, Aurelie | Director | 2020-01-15 | 2020-03-31 |
| KANAAN, Ammar Yahya | Director | 2020-01-15 | 2023-02-22 |
| MCINTYRE, Lewis William | Director | 2023-07-01 | 2024-01-08 |
| MCLAREN, Ian | Director | 2022-05-30 | 2023-06-19 |
| SIMON, Romain Julien | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2021-12-16 |
| VANCAMPEN, Tim | Director | 2023-02-22 | 2025-01-08 |
| VYAS, Sundeep | Director | 2020-01-15 | 2022-03-08 |
| WALSH, James Anthony | Director | 2022-03-08 | 2023-10-02 |
| WHITWORTH, Mark | Director | 2019-02-28 | 2022-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Investment Limited Sarl | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2020-01-15 | Ceased 2025-10-08 |
| Peel Ports Containers Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2019-02-28 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 55 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company | |
| 2023-03-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.