Inland freight water transport

NACE 50400

Current registrations895

Starters, 12 months · division 5082

Employment (FTE) · division 501,563

Median age · division 5017.3 years

In NACE division 50, 6.5 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 56% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 50

fiscal year 2025 · median over 248 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

45.0%

higher than 52% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€357,563

higher than 82% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€21,118

higher than 72% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

248

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.01%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 50% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 50 is 0.3%, against 0.5% nationally, over 441 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 292 of 895 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 256 · 87.7%

Wallonia 30 · 10.3%

Brussels 6 · 2.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
21-09-2026	DESIREE BE 0876.755.482
06-07-2026	VISHU SERVICE BE 1005.088.066
03-07-2026	MACHOU TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS BE 1004.474.788
09-04-2026	Sole trader BE 0556.997.556 · Antwerpen
19-01-2026	JEMA BE 0443.012.856
15-10-2025	Sole trader BE 0679.844.294 · Antwerpen
02-06-2025	RIBO JDB BE 0845.567.608
24-03-2025	Sole trader BE 0793.672.410 · Balen

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 10

East Flanders OVL 36

Antwerp ANT 200

Flemish Brabant VLB 3

Limburg LIM 7

Brussels BRU 6

Hainaut HAI 13

Walloon Brabant WBR 0

Namur NAM 8

Liège LIE 8

Luxembourg LUX 1

fewer moremax 200

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €2.1m awarded 54 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies in het kader van leerling-, student- en instellinggebonden ondersteuning
Federal transfers 2.0m amount as published 1 recipient · 2024 · largest: Gecombineerd en verspreid vervoer(cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting)
EU budget €728,456 attributed share 1 recipient · 2022 to 2024 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €765,500 eu contribution 2 recipients · 2018 to 2023 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 50400 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 50, not NACE 50400 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.