Land transport and transport via pipelines
Filed accounts
NACE 49500 · financial year 2025 · 59 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 35.9% | 32.6% | 31.9% | 33.2% | 35.4% | 30.8% |
| Median net result | €9,891 | €13,783 | €8,314 | €9,280 | €13,572 | €13,904 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 28-09-2026 | BOI
BE 0550.811.827 |
| 10-11-2025 | PKB TRANSPORTS
BE 1006.502.880 |
| 22-10-2025 | RED Benelux
BE 0662.565.527 |
| 17-04-2025 | GOW!
BE 0508.614.748 |
| 04-09-2024 | Pendje, Richard
BE 0685.408.334 · sole trader · Ronse |
| 24-05-2023 | WELBEN TRANSPORT
BE 0676.801.860 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 92 of 97 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 49 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 49500 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 FLUXYS BELGIUMBrussels 919 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 OVERPELT BSSPelt 17.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 JEJE TRANSVillers-le-Bouillet 14.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 PIPELINKAntwerp 7.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 SBK - TRANSWoluwe-Saint-Lambert 7.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 13 companies- 201 Independent retail 7
- 326 Gas and electricity 2
- 112 Garages 1
- 119 Food trade 1
- 140 Transport and logistics 1
- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
- 302 Hotels and catering 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 49: Land transport
Related activities
9 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freight transport by road49410 | 12,326 | 989 | 308 | 52,105 |
| On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle49330 | 6,596 | 1,151 | 63 | 2,379 |
| Non-scheduled passenger transport by road49320 | 2,544 | 216 | 28 | 6,528 |
| Removal services49420 | 986 | 130 | 21 | 1,373 |
| Scheduled passenger transport by road49310 | 941 | 130 | 14 | 27,585 |
| Land transport and transport via pipelines49390 | 226 | 115 | 0 | - |
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| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land transport and transport via pipelines49200 | 60 | 7 | 4 | 1,396 |
| Land transport and transport via pipelines49110 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 414 |
| Land transport and transport via pipelines49120 | 4 | 0 | 0 | - |
Bankruptcies per year in division 49
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 242 | 228 | 283 | 265 | 311 | 226 | 272 | 360 | 398 | 456 | 551 | 420 |
| Jobs lost | 658 | 661 | 706 | 666 | 753 | 648 | 888 | 1,046 | 1,483 | 1,434 | 1,925 | 1,484 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 49
2,214 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €61,700 | €49,200 to €73,700 | 917 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €61,000 | €51,300 to €69,800 | 1,013 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €63,000 | €56,900 to €71,000 | 256 |
| 250 FTE or more | €71,600 | €62,300 to €79,200 | 28 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 49Measured nationally: Of 108,642 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 8 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
70 of the 15,648 companies in NACE division 49 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (35), Luxembourg (15) and France (7). Together they employ 6,526 of the division's 92,766 FTE: 7.0%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €100.7m awarded
- Federal transfers 6.49bn amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €70,602 paid
- EU budget €95.5m attributed share
- EU research €8.7m EU contribution
Insights on Land transport and transport via pipelines
Balance sheet and result. 16.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Solvency of 30.8% is below Belgium's 46.1%. Liquidity of 1.29 is below Belgium's 1.66.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 1.5% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 5.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Brussels holds 18.9% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. In 12 months, 6.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 60% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. 54.7% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 965 of the 986 FTE: 97.9%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 35.9% in financial year 2020 to 30.8% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €9,891 in financial year 2020 to €13,904 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 49500 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.