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Largest Marine Transportation Public Companies in the UK
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
TORM, Clarkson, Global Ship Lease, KNOT Offshore Partners and Fisher (James) & Sons.
 | TORM PLC operates as a shipping company. The company owns and operates product tankers. It is engaged in the transportation of refined oil products The company transports clean petroleum products including gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha, and diesel oil, as well as other clean products. Its segments include the Tanker segment, and Marine Engineering segment. The company derives maximum revenue from Tanker segment. | $28 | +69% | $3B | $4B | 2.8x | 6.5x | ||
| Clarkson PLC is a shipbroking company that services the transportation industry. The company organizes itself into four segments: broking, financial, support, and research. Broking, which generates the vast majority of revenue, provides shipbroking services for ocean transporters. Financial, the next key segment, provides investment banking and asset finance services in the shipping, offshore, and real estate sectors. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. | $62 | +41% | $2B | $1B | 1.6x | 9.0x | ||
| Global Ship Lease Inc operates in the container shipping industry. The company owns and charters out containerships under long-term, fixed-rate charters to container liner companies. The majority of the company's revenues are derived from charters to MAERSK. Its fleet consisted of more than 60 containerships. | $38 | +43% | $1B | $2B | 2.0x | 2.6x | ||
| KNOT Offshore Partners LP owns, operates, and shuttles tankers under long-term charters in the North Sea and Brazil. The company provides crude oil loading, transportation, and storage services under time charters and bareboat charters. The Partnership is formed for acquiring ownership interests in over four shuttle tankers owned by Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS (KNOT). It operates through the shuttle tanker market segment. | $11 | +72% | $371M | $1B | 3.3x | 5.4x | ||
| Fisher (James) & Sons PLC operates in the following segments: Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport. A majority of its revenue is derived from the Energy segment, which provides services to the energy and renewables markets, including compressor services in Oil and Gas markets and bubble curtains for offshore wind, inspection, repair and maintenance, commissioning, cable and blade maintenance, and support in Renewables and Subsea and Decommissioning services. The Maritime Transport comprises the Tankship business, Cattedown Wharves, and Fendercare, and the Defence segment provides submarine rescue, defence diving, special forces vehicles, submarine platforms, and commercial diving and hyperbaric systems. Geographically, it derives key revenue from Middle East, Africa and Americas. | $7 | +42% | $336M | $530M | 1.0x | 5.3x | ||
| SRT Marine Systems PLC develops and provides integrated maritime surveillance, monitoring, management, and safety systems used by coast guards, fisheries authorities, infrastructure owners, and vessel owners for the purpose of managing and controlling their maritime domain. The applications include security, safety, search & rescue, law enforcement, fisheries management, illegal fishing detection, and environmental monitoring. The company is in a single business segment, the Marine technology business, which provides solutions to solve the problem of maritime domain awareness, including products and systems. The company currently operates in the following geographical markets: Europe, the Middle East, North America, the United Kingdom, South East Asia, and others. | $1 | +21% | $331M | $334M | 3.2x | 25.3x | ||
| Taylor Maritime Ltd is a shipping company. The company is focused on the geared dry bulk segment of the shipping sector. The company operates a high-quality fleet of Handysize and Supra/Ultramax dry bulk vessels, delivering exceptional service to the partners, built upon longstanding industry experience, passion, and commitment to continuous improvement. | $1 | -7% | $115M | $25M | (0.4x) | - | ||
| Kestrel Group Ltd is specializes in providing fronting services to insurance program managers, MGAs, reinsurers, and reinsurance brokers. The Group facilitates insurance transactions utilizing its management contracts with four insurance carriers. Its line business includes casualty, workers' compensation, catastrophe-exposed property, and non-catastrophe-exposed property, with diverse risk durations, sizes, and product types. | $11 | -57% | $89M | $248M | 7.7x | - | ||
| Median | $11 | +42% | $354M | $869M | 2.4x | 6.0x |
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