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Report of the Directors and

Financial Statements

For The Year Ended 31 December 2025

for

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Contents of the Financial Statements
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025










Page

Company Information 1

Report of the Directors 2

Report of the Independent Auditors 4

Income Statement 8

Other Comprehensive Income 9

Balance Sheet 10

Statement of Changes in Equity 11

Notes to the Financial Statements 12


UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED

Company Information
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025







DIRECTORS: E Birkeland
T Thue



REGISTERED OFFICE: Units 5b & 5c
Appian Way
Europa Park
Grimsby
DN31 2UT



REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917 (England and Wales)



SENIOR STATUTORY AUDITOR: Jacqueline Godden FCCA



INDEPENDENT AUDITORS: Fortus Audit LLP
Equinox House
Clifton Park, Shipton Road
York
Yorkshire
YO30 5PA

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Report of the Directors
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2025.

DIVIDENDS
No dividends will be distributed for the year ended 31 December 2025.

DIRECTORS
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from 1 January 2025 to the date of this report.

E Birkeland
T Thue

STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES
The directors are responsible for preparing the Report of the Directors and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

-select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
-make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
-prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS
So far as the directors are aware, there is no relevant audit information (as defined by Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the company's auditors are unaware, and each director has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to small companies.

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Report of the Directors
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


AUDITORS
The auditors, Fortus Audit LLP, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:




E Birkeland - Director


14 September 2026

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
United European Car Carriers (Grimsby)
Limited


Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of United European Car Carriers (Grimsby) Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2025 which comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 101 'Reduced Disclosure Framework' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:
-give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2025 and of its profit for the year then ended;
-have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
-have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information
The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information in the Report of the Directors, but does not include the financial statements and our Report of the Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
- the information given in the Report of the Directors for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
- the Report of the Directors has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
United European Car Carriers (Grimsby)
Limited


Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Directors.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
- the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report.

Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page two, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
United European Car Carriers (Grimsby)
Limited


Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Irregularities, including fraud are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks that are applicable to the company and determined that the most significant frameworks which are directly relevant to specific assertions in the financial statements are those that relate to the reporting framework (IFRS and the Companies Act 2006) and the relevant tax compliance regulations in the UK.

We understood how the company is complying with those frameworks by making enquiries of management and those responsible for legal and compliance procedures. We corroborated our enquiries through review of board minutes and discussions with those charged with governance.

We assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur, by discussion with management from various parts of the business to understand where they considered there was a susceptibility to fraud. We considered the procedures and controls that the company has established to prevent and detect fraud, and how these are monitored by management, and also any enhanced risk factors such as performance targets.

Based on our understanding, we designed our audit procedures to identify any non-compliance with laws and regulations identified in the paragraphs above.

We also performed audit work over the risk of management override of controls, including testing of journal entries and other adjustments for appropriateness, evaluating the business rationale of significant transactions outside the normal course of business and reviewing accounting estimates for bias.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
United European Car Carriers (Grimsby)
Limited


Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.




Jacqueline Godden FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of Fortus Audit LLP
Equinox House
Clifton Park, Shipton Road
York
Yorkshire
YO30 5PA

14 September 2026

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Income Statement
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025

2025 2024
Notes €'000 €'000

TURNOVER 1,130 1,031

Administrative expenses 1,085 1,040
OPERATING PROFIT/(LOSS) 45 (9 )

Interest receivable and similar income 3 3
48 (6 )

Interest payable and similar expenses 5 6 8
PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAXATION 6 42 (14 )

Tax on profit/(loss) 7 23 8
PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 19 (22 )

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Other Comprehensive Income
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025

2025 2024
Notes €'000 €'000

PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE YEAR 19 (22 )


OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Item that will not be reclassified to profit or loss:
Actuarial gain on pension scheme 42 46
Income tax relating to item that will not be reclassified to
profit or loss

-

-
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE
YEAR, NET OF INCOME TAX

42

46
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE
YEAR

61

24

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Balance Sheet
31 December 2025

2025 2024
Notes €'000 €'000 €'000 €'000
FIXED ASSETS
Owned
Tangible assets 8 - -
Right-of-use
Tangible assets 8, 13 76 128
76 128

CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 9 211 120
Cash at bank 317 326
528 446
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 10 143 125
NET CURRENT ASSETS 385 321
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 461 449

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one
year

11

38

87
NET ASSETS 423 362

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital - -
Retained earnings 14 423 362
423 362

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 14 September 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:





E Birkeland - Director


UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Statement of Changes in Equity
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025

Called up
share Retained Total
capital earnings equity
€'000 €'000 €'000
Balance at 1 January 2024 - 338 338

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - 24 24
Balance at 31 December 2024 - 362 362

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - 61 61
Balance at 31 December 2025 - 423 423

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

United European Car Carriers (Grimsby) Limited us a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Units 5B and 5C, Appian Way Europa Park, Grimsby, DN31 2UT. The trading address of the company is Royal Portbury Docks, Portbury, Bristol, BS20 7XL.

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparation
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards, in particular, Financial Reporting Standard 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework (FRS 101) abd the Companies Act 2006 (the act) as applicable to companies using FRS 101. FRS 101 sets out a reduced disclosure framework for a 'qualifying entity' as defined in the standard which addresses the financial reporting requirements and disclosure exemptions in the individual financial statement of qualifying entities that otherwise apply the recognition, measurement and disclosure requirements of EU-adopted IFRS.

The company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS101. Note 17 give details of the company's ultimate parent and from where it's consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance IFRS may be obtained.
The disclosure exemption adopted by the company is accordance with FRS 101 are as follows:

a) Statement of cash flows
b) Capital risk management
c) Related party transactions

The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with FRS 101 requires the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of turnover and expenses during the reporting period. Although these estimates are based on management's best knowledge of the amount, event or actions, actual results may differ from those estimates.

The financial statements are prepared in euros which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest €'000.

Going concern
At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Therefore the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

Turnover
Turnover is the amount derived from the provisions of services falling with the company's ordinary activities, excluding VAT, and is entirely attributable to fees receivable under a management agreements with a fellow group company. Turnover is recognised on an accrual basis in the period the service is performed.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.


UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Financial instruments
Financial instruments are recognised in the company's statement of financial position when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic Financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include trade and other receivables and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Classification of financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including trade and other payables and loans from fellow group companies that are classified as debt, are recognised at transaction price.

Trade payables are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade payables are recognised at transaction price.

Basic financial liabilities
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.

Taxation
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reporting in the income statement because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it future excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company's liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reserves at the statement of financial position date, where transactions or events that result in an obligation to pay more tax in the future or a right to pay less tax in the future have occurred at the statement if financial position date.

Foreign exchange
Transaction denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities are translated into Euros at rates of exchange ruling at the date the transactions making up the balances accrued (temporal method). All exchange differences are taken to the profit and loss accounting the financial year in which they arise.

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Leases
Leases are recognised as finance leases. The lease liability is initially recognised at the present value of the lease payments which have not yet been made and subsequently measured under the amortised cost method. The initial cost of the right-of-use asset comprises the amount of the initial measurement of the lease liability, lease payments made prior to the lease commencement date, initial direct costs and the estimated costs of removing or dismantling the underlying asset per the conditions of the contract.

Where ownership of the right-of-use asset transfers to the lessee at the end of the lease term, the right-of-use asset is depreciated over the asset’s remaining useful life. If ownership of the right-of-use asset does not transfer to the lessee at the end of the lease term, depreciation is charged over the shorter of the useful life of the right-of-use asset and the lease term.

Employee benefit costs
The company operates defined contribution pension schemes covering the majority of its employees. The assets of the scheme are held independently of the company. Contributions are charges against profits as they become payable,

The company also contributes to individual employee's personal pension schemes. The cost of these contributions us recognised in the financial year in which payments become payable.

In addition, some of the employees are members of the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF) which comprises two defined benefit funds. Contributions to the pre-1978 fund are accounted for as if the scheme was a defined contributions scheme (note 14).

The MNOPF post 1978 fund has been accounted for as an industry-wide defined benefit scheme under which the company is able to make a reasonable assessment of its share of the assets and liabilities and therefore the scheme has been accounts fir in accordance with IAS 19 Revised for defined benefit schemes. As a results, the regular service costs of providing retirement benefits to employees during the financial year is charged to operating profit in the financial year. The full cost of providing amendments to benefits in respect of past service is also charged to operating profit in the financial year.

Pension schemes surpluses, to the extent that they are considered recoverable, or deficits are recognised in full and presented on the face of the statement of financial position net of the related deferred tax.

Income representing the expected return on assets of the find during the financial year is included within other finance costs. This is based on the market value of the assets of the find at the start of the financial year. A cost representing the interest on the liabilities of the fund during the financial year is also included within other financial costs. This arises from the liabilities of the find being one year closer to payment.

Differences between actual and expected returns on assets during the financial year are recognised in the statement of comprehensive income for the financial year, together with differences arising from changes in assumptions underlying the present value of scheme liabilities and experienced gains and losses arising on scheme liabilities.

Pension scheme liabilities are measured using the projected unit actuarial methods and are discounted at the current rate of return on a high quality corporate bond of equivalent terms to the liability.

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Crewing costs and ship operating costs
By a way of an agreement with United Car Carriers Unipessoal LDA, the company employs, as an agent, the masters and officers, who man the vessels owned by United European Car Carriers Unipessoal LDA.

All crewing and vessel operating costs are recharged to and borne by United Car CArriers Unipessoal LDA. Such costs are not reflected within the income statement of the company.

Critical accounting estimates and assumptions
The company makes estimates and assumptions concerning the future. The resulting accounting estimates will, by definition, seldom equal the actual results. Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated and are based on the historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The estimates and assumptions that have a significant risk of causing material adjustment to the carrying value of assets and liabilities within the next financial year are addressed below:

Defined benefit pension scheme
The company has an obligation to pay pension benefits to certain employees. The cost of these benefits and the present value of the obligation depend on a number of factors, including; life expectancy, salary increases, asset valuations and the discount rate on corporate bonds. Management estimates these factors in determining the net position obligation in the balance sheet. The assumptions reflect historical experience and current trends. See note 14 for disclosures of the defined benefit pension scheme.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Wages and salaries 580 576
Social security costs 91 70
Other pension costs 114 99
785 745

The average number of employees during the year was as follows:
2025 2024

Operations 1 1
Admin 5 5
6 6

The emoluments of the two directors are paid by another group company which makes no recharge to the company. It is not possible to make an accurate apportionment of their emoluments in respect of each of the subsidiaries. Accordingly, the above details include no emoluments in respect of the directors. The total emoluments are included in the aggregate of directors emoluments disclosed in the financial statements of another group company. There are no benefits accruing under the defined benefit scheme to either director.

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


4. DIRECTORS' EMOLUMENTS
2025 2024
€    €   
Directors' remuneration - -

5. INTEREST PAYABLE AND SIMILAR EXPENSES
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Leasing 6 8

6. PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAXATION

The profit before taxation (2024 - loss before taxation) is stated after charging/(crediting):
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Depreciation - assets on hire purchase contracts or finance leases 52 55
Auditors' remuneration 11 17
Foreign exchange differences 3 (21 )

7. TAXATION

Analysis of tax expense
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Current tax:
Corporation tax 23 8
Total tax expense in income statement 23 8

Factors affecting the tax expense
The tax assessed for the year is higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK. The difference is explained below:

2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Profit/(loss) before income tax 42 (14 )
Profit/(loss) multiplied by the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK
of 25% (2024 - 25%)

11

(4

)

Effects of:
Expenses not allowable for corporation tax 12 12
Tax expense 23 8

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


7. TAXATION - continued

Tax effects relating to effects of other comprehensive income

2025
Gross Tax Net
€'000 €'000 €'000
Actuarial gain on pension scheme 42 - 42

2024
Gross Tax Net
€'000 €'000 €'000
Actuarial gain on pension scheme 46 - 46

8. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Long Motor
leasehold vehicles Totals
€'000 €'000 €'000
COST
At 1 January 2025
and 31 December 2025 155 74 229
DEPRECIATION
At 1 January 2025 64 37 101
Charge for year 33 19 52
At 31 December 2025 97 56 153
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2025 58 18 76
At 31 December 2024 91 37 128

9. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Amounts owed by group undertakings 157 40
Other debtors 54 80
211 120

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


10. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Leases (see note 12) 51 51
Trade creditors 3 1
Corporation tax 21 8
Social security and other taxes 17 17
Other creditors 8 15
Accrued expenses 43 33
143 125

11. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Leases (see note 12) 38 87

12. FINANCIAL LIABILITIES - BORROWINGS

2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Current:
Leases (see note 13) 51 51

Non-current:
Leases (see note 13) 38 87

Terms and debt repayment schedule

1 year or
less 1-2 years Totals
€'000 €'000 €'000
Leases 51 38 89

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


13. LEASING

Right-of-use assets

Tangible fixed assets

2025 2024
€'000 €'000
COST
At 1 January 2025 229 175
Additions - 54
229 229

DEPRECIATION
At 1 January 2025 101 46
Charge for year 52 55
153 101

NET BOOK VALUE 76 128

Lease liabilities

Minimum lease payments fall due as follows:

2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Gross obligations repayable:
Within one year 55 57
Between one and five years 40 93

95 150

Finance charges repayable:
Within one year 4 6
Between one and five years 2 6
6 12

Net obligations repayable:
Within one year 51 51
Between one and five years 38 87
89 138

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


14. RESERVES
Retained
earnings
€'000

At 1 January 2025 362
Profit for the year 19
Actuarial gain on pension
scheme 42
At 31 December 2025 423

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


15. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS

2025 2024
Defined contribution schemes €'000 €'000

Charge to profit or loss in respect of defined contribution schemes 114 99

The company operates defined contribution schemes for the majority of its employees. The assets of these schemes are held independently of the company. The cost of contributions to the defined contribution scheme amounts to €114,000 (2024: 99,000).


Defined benefit schemes
In addition, some of the employees are members of the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF). The MNOPF consists of two defined benefit funds, a pre 1978 fund and a post 1978 fund. The company is unable to identify its share of the underlying assets and liabilities in the pre 1978 fund and has accounted for the scheme as if it were a defined contribution scheme.

Following the conclusion of a court case, brought by the MNOPF, the company is able to identify its share of the underlying assets and liabilities of the post 1978 fund and therefore applies the requirements of IAS 19 Revised.

An actuarial valuation of company's share of assets and liabilities using the projected unit bases was carried out at 31 December 2025 by a qualified independent actuary.

The significant risks of the scheme are as follows, although the list is not exhaustive:

a)Asset volatility
There is a risk that a fall in asset values is not matched by a corresponding reduction in the value placed on the BDO (defined benefit obligation), although this risk is mitigated by the Trustee having secured buy-in policies covering the majority of pensioner members. The MNOPF holds a proportion of growth assets, which are expected to outperform corporate and government bond yields in the long-term, but gives exposure to volatility and risk in the short term.

b)Changes in bond yields
A decrease in corporate bond yields will increase the value placed on the DBO, although this will be offset to the extent that liabilities of pensioner members are secured using buy-in policies, and to the extent that the residual assets are invested in corporate bonds.

c) Inflation risk
Part of the DBO is linked to inflation, where higher inflation will lead to a higher value being placed on the DBO. Some of the MNOPF's assets are either unaffected by inflation or loosely correlated (e.g growth assets), meaning that an increase in inflation is generally expected to increase the deficit.

d) Life expectancy
An increase in life expectancy will lead to an increased value being placed on the DBO, although this is mitigated to the extent that the pensioner liabilities are secured by buy-in policies. Future mortality rates cannot be predicted with certainty.
The amounts recognised in the balance sheet are as follows:

Defined benefit
pension plans
2025 2024

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

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15. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS - continued
€'000 €'000
Present value of funded obligations (12,485 ) (13,926 )
Fair value of plan assets 13,378 14,132
893 206
Present value of unfunded obligations - -
Restriction on scheme assets (893 ) (206 )
Deficit - -
Net liability - -

The amounts recognised in profit or loss are as follows:

Defined benefit
pension plans
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Current service cost - -
Net interest from net defined benefit
asset/liability

(9

)

(18

)
Past service cost - -
Restriction on net interest income credited
to the income statement

9

18
Other costs and income 42 46
42 46

Actual return on plan assets 875 1,623

Changes in the present value of the defined benefit obligation are as follows:

Defined benefit
pension plans
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Opening defined benefit obligation 13,926 14,651
Interest cost 682 665
Actuarial gains and losses (465 ) (940 )
Benefits paid (1,117 ) (1,165 )
Exchange differences on foreign plans (541 ) 715
12,485 13,926

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

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15. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS - continued

Changes in the fair value of scheme assets are as follows:

Defined benefit
pension plans
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Opening fair value of scheme assets 14,132 15,055
Expected return 691 683
Actuarial gains/(losses) 184 940
Benefits paid (1,117 ) (1,165 )
Exchange differences on foreign plans (470 ) (1,335 )
Other (42 ) (46 )
13,378 14,132

The amounts recognised in other comprehensive income are as follows:

Defined benefit
pension plans
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Actuarial gains/(losses) (42 ) (46 )
(42 ) (46 )

The major categories of scheme assets as amounts of total scheme assets are as follows:

Defined benefit
pension plans
2025 2024
€'000 €'000
Equities 13,378 14,132
13,378 14,132

Principal actuarial assumptions at the balance sheet date (expressed as weighted averages):

2025 2024
Discount rate 5.40% 5.40%
RPI 3.00% 3.30%
CPI 2.60% 2.90%
Expected rate of increase of pensions in deferment 2.60% 2.90%

UNITED EUROPEAN CAR CARRIERS (GRIMSBY)
LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 02699917)

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For The Year Ended 31 December 2025


15. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS - continued

Mortality assumptions
Assumed life expectations on retirement at age 65:20252024
Longevity at age 65 for current pensionersYearsYears
-Males21.221.6
-Females24.624.2

Longevity at age 65 for future pensioners
-Males22.922.9
-Females26.025.5

16. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The company's immediate parent undertaking at 31 December 2024 is United European Car Carriers AS, a company registered in Norway.

The directors regard United European Car Carriers BV, a company incorporated in The Netherlands, as the ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party,

The largest group of which the company is a member and for which consolidated financial statements are drawn up is that of United European Car Carriers BV> Copies of the consolidated financial statements may be obtained from PO Box 1469, 1000 BL, Amsterdam,The Netherlands.