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Sea and coastal freight water transport · Birmingham

Metro Shipping

Metro Shipping Limited

ActiveLatest figures: 2024Company only46 years on the register

Private limited company registered in Birmingham, classed under “Sea and coastal freight water transport” and 1 other activity.

Headline figures

FY to Dec 2024 · Company only

Turnover

For subscribers

Profit after tax

£15.6m

Net assets

For subscribers

Cash

For subscribers

Employees

For subscribers

Retained reserves

For subscribers

What the numbers say

4 findings from the figures, in plain English

Written by rules from the figures on this page. Not a forecast or a credit opinion.

History

Pro
£20202021*202220232024
Profit after tax£15.6m
Turnover
Net assets
Cash
Employees
Retained reserves
Dividends paid

Every figure for all 5 years

“—” means we did not find the figure in a source; it is never filled with an estimate. * Restated: the next year's accounts printed different figures for this year, and those later figures are shown.

Balance sheet and ratios

From the filed balance sheets · £

Balance sheet2021202220232024
Fixed assets
Current assets
of which debtors
of which cash
Creditors due within a year
Net current assets
Net assets
Ratios
Profit marginProfit after tax as a share of turnover
Return on equityProfit after tax as a share of net assets
Dividends to profitDividends paid as a share of profit after tax, in a year with a profit
Current ratioCurrent assets for every £1 owed within a year
Cash ratioCash for every £1 owed within a year
Creditors to assetsEverything owed to creditors as a share of fixed plus current assets
Turnover per employeeTurnover divided by average staff
Debtor daysDays of turnover owed by customers at the year end

7 balance-sheet lines and 8 ratios, every year

A ratio appears only for years where every line it needs was filed. Lines are as tagged in the accounts; nothing is added up or estimated.

Timeline

Checked 2026-10-21

  1. Accounts
    Full accounts made up to 31 December 2024
  2. Directors
    Termination of appointment of Andrew White as a director on 22 October 2025
  3. Directors
    Appointment of Mr Laurence James Burford as a director on 22 October 2025
  4. Ownership
    Notification of Metro Global Holdings Limited as a person with significant control on 15 November 2024
  5. Accounts
    Full accounts made up to 31 December 2023
  6. Accounts
    Full accounts made up to 31 December 2022
  7. Ownership
    Notification of Iain Robert Liddell as a person with significant control on 2 May 2023
  8. Ownership
    Cessation of Paul Carlile as a person with significant control on 2 May 2023
  9. Directors
    Termination of appointment of Paul Carlile as a director on 31 March 2023
  10. Directors
    Appointment of Mr Andrew Phillip Smith as a director on 3 January 2023
  11. Directors
    Termination of appointment of Kevin Lake as a director on 3 January 2023
  12. Accounts
    Full accounts made up to 31 December 2021
  13. 25 earlier
    1. Directors
      Appointment of Mr Grant Anthony Liddell as a director on 14 December 2021
    2. Accounts
      Current accounting period extended from 30 June 2021 to 31 December 2021
    3. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 30 June 2020
    4. Accounts
      Previous accounting period shortened from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2020
    5. Accounts
      Previous accounting period extended from 31 March 2020 to 1 July 2020
    6. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2019
    7. Directors
      Appointment of Mr Nicholas Kevin Brooks as a secretary on 31 July 2019
    8. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Barry Tuck as a secretary on 31 July 2019
    9. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2018
    10. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2017
    11. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2016
    12. Charges
      Satisfaction of charge 2 in full
    13. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2015
    14. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2014
    15. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2013
    16. Accounts
      Full accounts made up to 31 March 2012
    17. Accounts
      Accounts for a medium company made up to 31 March 2011
    18. Address
      Registered office address changed from London Mega Terminal Thurrock Park Way, Tilbury, Essex, RM18 7HD on 17 August 2011
    19. Charges
      Particulars of a mortgage or charge / charge no: 2
    20. Accounts
      Accounts for a medium company made up to 31 March 2010
    21. Directors
      Appointment of Andrew White as a director
    22. Directors
      Appointment of Kevin Lake as a director
    23. Directors
      Appointment of Barry Tuck as a secretary
    24. Directors
      Appointment of Mr Iain Robert Liddell as a director
    25. Directors
      Termination of appointment of Arnold Kaplan as a director

From the Companies House filing history. Routine confirmation statements are left out, and a run of the same filing is shown once.

Questions people ask

›What does Metro Shipping do?

Private limited company registered in Birmingham, classed under “Sea and coastal freight water transport” and 1 other activity.

›How much turnover does Metro Shipping make?

Answered in the full report

›Is Metro Shipping profitable?

Yes: it made a profit after tax of £15.6m in the year to 31 December 2024, its latest filed accounts.

›How many people work at Metro Shipping?

Answered in the full report

›Who runs and owns Metro Shipping?

Its directors are Nicholas Kevin Brooks, Laurence James Burford, Grant Anthony Liddell, Iain Robert Liddell, Andrew Phillip Smith. Its owners are shown to subscribers.

›Where is Metro Shipping based?

Its registered office is 2700 The Crescent, Birmingham Business Park, Birmingham, B37 7YE, in Birmingham.

›When was Metro Shipping founded?

Metro Shipping Limited was incorporated on 24 March 1980.

›Is Metro Shipping still trading?

The register lists Metro Shipping Limited as active.

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