Casper Shipping Limited
Registered name: CASPER SHIPPING LIMITED
Part of Casper Shipping Holdings Limited groupCasper Shipping Limited made £5.5m revenue and £422k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Casper Shipping Limited’s revenue fell 13% to £5.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £422k profit and 51 employees. The company is classified under “sea and coastal freight water transport” and is based in Middlesbrough; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Middlesbrough, North East
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1990
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.6m | £5.4m | £6.3m | £5.5m |
| Cost of sales | £1.1m | £1.2m | £2.1m | £1.3m |
| Gross profit | £4.5m | £4.2m | £4.2m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | £948k | £74.3k | £253k | £481k |
| Profit before tax | £940k | £70.1k | £243k | £481k |
| Profit after tax | £755k | £95.9k | £187k | £422k |
| Profit (best available) | £755k | £95.9k | £187k | £422k |
| Staff costs | £2.6m | £3m | £3.1m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 61 | 57 | 51 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 13.6% | 1.8% | 3% | 7.7% |
| Gross margin | 80.1% | 78.2% | 67.2% | 75.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £95.7k | £88.1k | £110k | £107k |
| Profit per employee | £13k | £1.6k | £3.3k | £8.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.2% | ▲16.5% | ▼12.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼87.3% | ▲95.3% | ▲125% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲5.2% | ▼6.6% | ▼10.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £660k | £231k | £429k | £430k |
| Net assets | £1.5m | £635k | £823k | £1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £262k | £287k | £250k | £212k |
| Current assets | £10.4m | £8.2m | £7.6m | £7.9m |
| Debtors | £4.3m | £4.6m | £3.4m | £3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 75.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £107k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 3.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 54.3%
- 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
- ▲51%
- Now £1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲0%
- Now £430k
- Headcount
- ▼11%
- Now 51
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼15%
- Now £212k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Casper Shipping Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Casper Shipping Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Casper Customs LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Casper Defence LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Casper Logistics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Casper Port Agency 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £422k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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