Companies House has issued its first notice for the compulsory strike-off of Tradewind Voyages, which operates the cruise ship Golden Horizon.
In August, Tradewind Voyages said it had decided to cancel all remaining planned voyages up to October 2023 as it continued to “realign its business and financing structure”.
The Suffolk-based tall-ship line had announced in July that sailings until October 2022 had been axed and warned of further cancellations amid the sanctioning of its major credit bank VTB Germany, which is based in Russia.
The compulsory strike-off process can start if a company is neither carrying on business nor operation.
Companies that do not file their annual accounts or confirmation statement will normally receive two letters from Companies House.
A Gazette notice is then published to tell the public that the registrar intends to strike off the company.
If there are no objections to dissolution and the two-month period from the publication of the Gazette notice has expired, the company will be struck off shortly afterwards, meaning it will legally cease to exist.
According to Companies House, the only remaining director of the cruise line is Tomislav Debeljak, a Croatian national who was appointed on May 24, 2022.
Furthermore, the Companies House entry for Tradewin Voyages says the next accounts, made up to December 31, 2021, were due by September 30, 2022, so they are overdue.
In a statement in August, Tradewind Voyages had said: “Both Tradewind Voyages and [Tradewind’s owners] DIV Group continue to review every opportunity to reinstate Golden Horizon back to full service and will update guests and trade on our progress as developments are confirmed.”