Seacon Terminals Limited
Registered name: SEACON TERMINALS LIMITED
Part of Seacon Group Limited groupSeacon Terminals Limited made £16.6m revenue and £12.3k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Seacon Terminals Limited’s revenue grew 16% to £16.6m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £12.3k profit and 57 employees. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for water transport activities” and is based in Gravesend; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gravesend, South East
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.5m | £14.3m | £16.6m |
| Cost of sales | £12.6m | £11.3m | £12.9m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £3m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | £499k | £186k | £402k |
| Profit before tax | £427k | £73.6k | £247k |
| Profit after tax | £258k | −£372k | £12.3k |
| Profit (best available) | £258k | −£372k | £12.3k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.7m |
| Employees (average) | 53 | 55 | 57 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.7% | −2.6% | 0.1% |
| Gross margin | 19% | 21% | 22.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £293k | £260k | £292k |
| Profit per employee | £4.9k | −£6.8k | £216 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼8.1% | ▲16.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼244.3% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.8% | ▲3.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.8m | £2.1m | £616k |
| Net assets | £10.5m | £10.2m | £9.7m |
| Fixed assets | £14m | £19.5m | £20.3m |
| Current assets | £7m | £4.5m | £3.6m |
| Debtors | £1m | £1.4m | £2.3m |
| Deferred income | £488k | £459k | £538k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 22.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £292k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £216
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 122.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼5%
- Now £9.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼71%
- Now £616k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- ▲17%
- Now £538k
- Fixed assets
- ▲4%
- Now £20.3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Seacon Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Seacon Terminals Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Freight Express-Seacon (Rye) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seacon (SG) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seacon Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Stevedoring and Haulage Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £12.3k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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