Land transport and transport via pipelines
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 49 · financial year 2025 · 10,450 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 49
2,213 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €61,700 | €49,300 to €73,600 | 920 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €61,000 | €51,400 to €70,000 | 1,009 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €62,900 | €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
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 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 49Measured nationally: Of 108,424 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn.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 2 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.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 92 of 97 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 49 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 MAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR HET INTERCOMMUNAAL VERVOER TE BRUSSELBrussels 10,278 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Vlaamse Vervoermaatschappij - De LijnMechelen 7,637 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 OPERATEUR DE TRANSPORT DE WALLONIENamur 6,183 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 HENRI ESSERS EN ZONEN INTERNATIONAAL TRANSPORTGenk 932 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 FLUXYS BELGIUMBrussels 919 FTEfinancial year 2025
70 of the 15,655 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 92,760 FTE: 7.0%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €274.7m 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
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 49 is higher than that of 86% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is higher than every NACE division.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 49 is 1.6%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 13,472 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 49500 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 49, not only NACE 49500. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.