HMRC records show 165 businesses trading internationally from Southport over the last six months. It ranks 6 of 21 trading locations in Merseyside. Most of that activity sits in electrical machinery and electronics, machinery and mechanical appliances, plastics and plastic articles. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 7.0% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 05/10/2026 at 06:14HMRC release in view: Aug 26Snapshot: 2026-10-04.1
1,492Import declarations▼ 12.4% on the 6 months before
559Export declarations
−7.0%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
165Trading businesses
Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier
Ranked by declaration volume and months active. Hover any bar in the 24-month indicators for that month's figures. Log in for keyword search and HMRC category filters across all 165 businesses.
★ Most active in SouthportFiled more customs declarations than any other Southport business over the last six months — roughly 16% of the town's total import activity, mostly in meat and edible offal.
Most active business
BFS GROUP LIMITED
242 import declarations128 export declarationsPR9 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 07Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, new zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn), bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, cheese (excl. fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "penicillium roqueforti", and grated or powdered cheese).
▼ Expected to slow by 4.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity242 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity128 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ISOTHERMAL TECHNOLOGY
27 import declarations23 export declarationsPR9 *Ch. 35Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 49Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of refrigerating or freezing equipment and heat pumps, n.e.s., retorts, crucibles, mufflers, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods, slide gates and other refractory ceramic goods (excl. those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths, those of heading 6902, containing > 50% by, ceramic wares for chemical or other technical uses (excl. of porcelain or china, articles having a hardness equivalent to >= 9 on the mohs scale, millstones, polishing stones, grindstones and the like of heading 6804, refractory ceramic goods, electr.
▼ Expected to slow by 18.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity27 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity23 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
COOPERHEAT EQUIPMENT LTD
16 import declarations33 export declarationsPR9 *Ch. 42Ch. 62Ch. 68Ch. 69Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of machinery, plant and laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature, and of non-electric instantaneous and storage water heaters, n.e.s., trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, executive-cases, briefcases, school satchels and similar containers, with outer surface of plastics or textile materials, fans (excl. table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of an output <= 125 w).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity16 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity33 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
STOKERS LIMITED
37 import declarations6 export declarationsPR9 *Ch. 49Ch. 83Ch. 85Ch. 94Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include seats, convertible into beds (excl. of wood, and garden seats and camping equipment, and medical, dental or surgical furniture), wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats), upholstered seats, with wooden frames (excl. convertible into beds).
▼ Expected to slow by 28.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity37 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity6 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
PCI INSTRUMENTS LTD
18 import declarations21 export declarationsPR9 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 72Ch. 73Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include plates, sheets, strip and foil, of nickel alloys (excl. expanded plates, sheets or strip), gaskets, washers and other seals, of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber and those of cellular rubber), articles of tantalum, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 45.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity18 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity21 in the last 6 months
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What Southport trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 165 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and theMixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures, incl. alcoholic solutions, with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used in the food and drink industries; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the mTomatoes, fresh or chilledVegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, New Zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn)Live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, incl. chicory plants and roots, unrooted cuttings and slips, fruit and nut trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses)Meat or offal of fowls of the species "Gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=Fresh or chilled vegetables n.e.s.Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds
Common questions about trade in Southport
How many businesses import or export from Southport?
HMRC customs records show 165 businesses in Southport (PR8, PR9) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,492 import declarations and 559 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Southport businesses import most?
The most common category is electrical machinery and electronics. Across all Southport traders the leading goods are bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures, incl. alcoholic solutions, with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used in the food and drink industries; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the m, tomatoes, fresh or chilled, vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, new zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Southport growing?
Import activity is down 12.4% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 7.0%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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