London Stock Exchange informatiom showed the combined company would have logged a profit of £28.4m last year.
Hints on future profitability could also be found in the scale of the forward order books of both companies.
Details released to the London Stock Exchange also show that RS Platou recorded a profit of £8.7m in the first half of this year
“This decrease was due primarily to slightly weakened demand for services in the investment banking, offshore and project finance divisions and adverse foreign exchange movements, offset partially by strong demand for shipbroking services,” the document said.
Andi Case, the chief executive of Clarkons, said "the company is expanding at a time that the shipping markets are generally improving.These markets are still facing strong head winds, but we are getting closer to calibrating these markets, which is why we are entering the spike zone. I have been saying this for the past 18 months, if you read our annual reports, I have been telegraphing that these markets are close to calibrating and that’s why you see rates improving.
What we are focusing on is driving our volumes so that when the rate improvements come it will significantly enhance the revenues in the business.”
Clarksons's shipbroking and offshore will employ more than 600 brokers globally, backed up by over 300 analysts and support staff. A further 150 will be employed in the financial division.