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Company description
M & S LOGISTICS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 14 July 1998; registered for 28 years; registered office reported in CHESHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 50200 · Sea and coastal freight water transport.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported profit after tax £3,668,836, net assets £25,967,555, average employees 0. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- M & S LOGISTICS LIMITED
- Company number
- 03597897
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 2 total · 1 outstanding · 1 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
22 May 2026Next statement due
5 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit after tax
- £3,668,836
- Fixed assets
- £22,514,467
- Net assets
- £25,967,555
- Current liabilities
- £30,124,977
- Cash at bank
- £17,140,823
- Equity
- £25,967,555
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 14 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £3,940,414
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £590,361
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £950,311
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,862,226
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 18.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Payment terms are generally set at 30 days EOM
- Dispute resolution process
Rates are agreed with the procurement department and entered into the system. If an invoice arrives that do not match the system rates it is referred internally to the procurement and the operations department. Once they confirm the charge is not correct a formal notification is sent to the supplier that the charge is not correct with an explanation. If the supplier does show the charge is correct our system is updated and the invoice is passed for payment in all other cases a credit note is issued by the supplier which is processed with the invoice for payment.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 25.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay69.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay71.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
M & S LOGISTICS LIMITED
LEI 2549007Y8FXFB152I953 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 14 July 1998
- Initial LEI registration
- 16 June 2022
- LEI last updated
- 22 May 2026
- Next renewal
- 21 May 2026
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Other legal names
- M & S TANK CONTAINER SHIPPING (UK) LIMITED; M & S TANK CONTAINERS SHIPPING (UK) LIMITED; CHARIOTQUEST LIMITED
- Legal address
- HOPE STREET CHAPEL, CHESHIRE, Sandbach, CW11 1BA, GB
- Headquarters address
- HOPE STREET CHAPEL, CHESHIRE, Sandbach, CW11 1BA, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- M & S LOGISTICS LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020
- Approved
- 4 January 2021
- Sectors
- Transportation, logistics, and storage
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- This is the first time
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 18 March 2021
Policies described
Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Other
Training described
Your front line staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
Commitment to ensure our business dealings are performed in compliance with the relevant laws, we endorse the implementation & promotion of ethical practices to protect workers from being exploited.
Demonstrated progress
The Group is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking in its corporate activities and to ensuring that its supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking Regular auditing of supply chain Recruitment and selection, the Group uses only specified, reputable employment agencies to source labour. Six monthly - HR - one to ones with employees. Annual employee appraisal Periodic audits, assessment of working conditions. Training assessment.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: The Group exercises a vital role in the chemical logistics chain, it does not have a supply chain that is reliant on entities that would normally be associated with slavery or forced labour
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Migrants Refugees Children
- Mitigation: We audit all our suppliers
- Risk: The Group does not employ child workers, however we may employ young workers for work experience, but they are subject to the rights & protections.
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Children
- Mitigation: If we employ young employees for work experience, we ensure this authorised and we meet the relevant laws and regulations.
- Risk: The right to a safe working environment, especially during 2020 and preparing and risk assessing for our office to be Covid Safe.
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Mitigation: We carried out Covid risk assessments to abide by the governing guidelines, We implemented all actions to ensure a safer working environment
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr David Richard KewSee 4 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- South African
- Country of residence
- South Africa
- Notified
- 8 October 2020
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2026-06-29T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2026-07-12T00:00:00Z
Sterlingwood Ltd
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Country registered
- Virgin Islands, British
- Legal authority
- Bvi Business Companies Act, 2004
- Legal form
- Limited
- Place registered
- Registrar Of Corporate Affairs
- Registration number
- 1043631
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Mr David Frederick JenkinsSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- South Africa
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 11 May 2020
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: M & S TANK CONTAINER SHIPPING (UK) LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.