MARITIME CRAFT SERVICES (CLYDE) LIMITED
Company number SC063205 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Limited is a well-positioned specialist marine operator benefiting from structural vessel shortages in its core markets, demonstrated by strong operating profit growth and margin expansion. The company's strategic pivot toward fleet modernization—exiting older vessels at premium valuations and investing in differentiated SWATH technology—positions it to capture the offshore renewables growth wave. However, the dramatic cash depletion and increased leverage require urgent attention; management must ensure that the vessel construction program and working capital needs are adequately financed before the current liquidity buffer erodes further, and the unmanaged foreign exchange exposure needs formal hedging to protect what is otherwise a sound strategic trajectory.
Shareholders' funds
£25,505,860
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of ship owners, ship charterers, ship brokers and other maritime related services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1977-10-04
- Employees
- 66 (2025 accounts · was 70 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Maritime House, 69-71 Main Road, Fairlie, Ayrshire, KA29 0AD
- Postcode
- KA29 0AD
- Capital
- 7,500 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 22 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-04
- Next due by
- 2027-05-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 77390 Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 7 resigned
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Contact details
- Website
- maritimecraft.co.uk
Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd own and operate tugs and workboats, primarily providing support vessels for dredging and marine construction projects throughout the UK and worldwide.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| LARGS YACHT HAVEN, IRVINE ROAD, LARGS, KA30 8EZ | 2014-05-19 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 19 similar companies in KA
The largest employer among its local peers (66 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1977.
Competitors Ayr
This company ranks 1 among renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods not elsewhere classified in Ayr.
The class of 1977
51%
of the 7,313 companies incorporated in 1977 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.