Scotline Terminal (Medway) Limited
Registered name: SCOTLINE TERMINAL (MEDWAY) LIMITED
Scotline Terminal (Medway) Limited made £5.7m revenue and £182k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Scotline Terminal (Medway) Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £5.7m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £182k profit and 83 employees. The company is classified under “operation of warehousing and storage facilities for water transport activities” and is based in Romford; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Romford, London
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1988
- 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. From the filing: “The company is controlled by Mr P T Millatt, one of its directors.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.2m | £5.3m | £5.7m |
| Cost of sales | £1.1m | £947k | £1.1m |
| Gross profit | £4.1m | £4.4m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £553k | £401k | £292k |
| Profit before tax | £533k | £377k | £274k |
| Profit after tax | £438k | £267k | £182k |
| Profit (best available) | £438k | £267k | £182k |
| Staff costs | £2.5m | £2.9m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 76 | 81 | 83 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.4% | 5% | 3.2% |
| Gross margin | 79.2% | 82.3% | 80.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £68.5k | £65.9k | £68.3k |
| Profit per employee | £5.8k | £3.3k | £2.2k |
| Cash conversion | −65.1% | −62.5% | −184.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.6% | ▲6.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼38.9% | ▼31.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.6% | ▲2.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £17.2k | £35.4k | £30.9k |
| Net assets | £5.9m | £6.1m | £13.7m |
| Fixed assets | £7.4m | £6.9m | £16.1m |
| Current assets | £4.1m | £3m | £1.9m |
| Debtors | £67.2k | £32.5k | £57.1k |
| Deferred income | £47.3k | £20.7k | £148k |
| Cash from operations | −£360k | −£251k | −£537k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 80.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £68.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −184.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 283.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1%
- 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
- ▲124%
- Now £13.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼13%
- Now £30.9k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 83
- Deferred income
- ▲613%
- Now £148k
- Fixed assets
- ▲132%
- Now £16.1m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £182k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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