Dan Shipping and Chartering Limited
Registered name: DAN SHIPPING AND CHARTERING LIMITED
Part of John Good & Sons Limited groupDan Shipping and Chartering Limited made £1.6m revenue and £778k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Dan Shipping and Chartering Limited’s revenue fell 10% to £1.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £778k profit and 12 employees. The company is classified under “cargo handling for water transport activities” and is based in Hessle; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hessle, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- 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 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | £427k | £651k | £458k |
| Profit before tax | £599k | £983k | £903k |
| Profit after tax | £490k | £810k | £778k |
| Profit (best available) | £490k | £810k | £778k |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 35.1% | 46.3% | 49.6% |
| Gross margin | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Revenue per employee | £116k | £146k | £131k |
| Profit per employee | £40.8k | £67.5k | £64.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.2% | ▼10.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲65.3% | ▼4% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 49.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 100%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £131k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £64.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 12
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- John Good & Sons Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Dan Shipping and Chartering Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Bay Shipping LimitedRev. £1.3m · Profit £543k
- Arthur Smith (Grimsby) LimitedRev. £360k · Profit £41k
Sister companies (7)
- Trans-European Port Services (G.B.) LimitedRev. £5.2m · Profit £782k
- Nothing But LimitedRev. £963k · Profit £116k
- Connaught Air Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Good Power Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Packyourbags LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pathfinder Trade and Invest LtdFigures not disclosed
- The Good Travel Collective LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £778k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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