Warehousing and support activities for transportation

NACE 52

Current registrations 6,287

Starters, 12 months 5839.3 per 100 · Belgium 8.9

Bankruptcies, 12 months 609.5 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2

Employment (FTE) 70,8691,205 employers · latest accounts

Median age 10.1 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

E-invoicing via Peppol 87.4%5,493 of 6,287 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

43 companies file their annual accounts outside the standard format, for example in a sector format. Their figures and staff are missing from the employment, the medians and the largest employers.

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Activities

NACE division 52 · 10 activities

Activity	Registrations	Starters, 12 months	Bankruptcies, 12 months	FTE
Logistics services52250	2,655	232	26	18,381
Service activities incidental to land transportation52210	1,404	140	18	6,411
Warehousing and storage52100	1,026	55	10	15,594
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52230	405	43	1	6,778
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52249	345	13	1	6,032
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52220	301	16	2	4,646
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52241	267	8	2	12,878
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52260	144	60	0	149
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52310	42	22	1	-
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52320	12	6	0	-

Filed accounts

NACE division 52 · financial year 2025 · 3,506 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

39.3%

Belgium 46.1%

Median net result

€25,580

Belgium €16,475

Median equity

€229,445

Belgium €98,230

Loss-making

26.1%

Belgium 26.7%

Negative equity

11.4%

Belgium 12.4%

Median return on equity

12.7%

Belgium 15.9%

Median liquidity

1.45

Belgium 1.66

Filed late

35.9%

financial year 2024, 3,006 filings · Belgium 38.5%

Missing or 90 days late

6.4%

of 3,883 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.5%

Per financial year	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Median solvency	-	-	33.3%	34.7%	36.3%	38.1%	38.6%	39.5%
Median net result	-	-	€18,839	€26,688	€27,596	€24,411	€24,553	€23,160
Filed late	36.6%	45.0%	38.3%	39.8%	38.2%	35.3%	35.9%	-

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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 52

1,102 employers

Median

€72,800

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€58,800 to €89,300

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

21 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€70,600	€56,500 to €88,200	528
10 to 49 FTE	€73,400	€60,200 to €88,100	396
50 to 249 FTE	€76,400	€62,100 to €99,500	127
250 FTE or more	€75,500	€61,500 to €90,500	51

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered

174

2.77% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Bankruptcies per year in division 52

Per year	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Bankruptcies	65	56	50	61	53	47	39	62	70	89	76	62
Jobs lost	180	199	111	138	132	1,618	75	140	161	210	289	148

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Recent bankruptcies

Date	Company
12-11-2026	BCAA Services BE 1010.776.028
09-11-2026	M-ASSISTANCE BE 0834.848.217
06-11-2026	Goossen, David BE 0713.444.601 · sole trader · Sint-Laureins
05-11-2026	VinCon BE 0664.540.466
03-11-2026	LILY GROUPE BE 0785.576.967
26-10-2026	Dépannage Christophe BE 0741.900.045
14-10-2026	Cargo Transport Solutions BE 0804.216.607
08-10-2026	B.O.D. Livraison pain BE 0740.606.282

Every bankruptcy in division 52, last 90 days

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 52

Number

154

Half have run longer than

23 months

Belgium: 20 months

Longer than three years

37%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,768 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% 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 13 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.

Outcome by court and division

Spread across the country

by region and province · 4,899 of 6,287 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat

Flanders 3,377 · 68.9%
Wallonia 856 · 17.5%
Brussels 484 · 9.9%
Abroad 182 · 3.7%

West Flanders WVL 398

East Flanders OVL 639

Antwerp ANT 1,602

Flemish Brabant VLB 451

Limburg LIM 287

Brussels BRU 484

Hainaut HAI 256

Walloon Brabant WBR 112

Namur NAM 94

Liège LIE 343

Luxembourg LUX 51

fewer moremax 1,602

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Largest employers

NACE division 52 · staff from the latest accounts

1 Centrale der Werkgevers aan de Haven van AntwerpenAntwerp 10,219 FTEfinancial year 2025
2 CENTRE HOSPITALIER REGIONAL DE LA CITADELLELiège 3,235 FTEfinancial year 2025
3 Haven van Antwerpen - BruggeAntwerp 1,621 FTEfinancial year 2025
4 DHL AVIATIONSteenokkerzeel 1,403 FTEfinancial year 2025
5 SKECHERS EDCHerstal 1,318 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 1,532 companies

226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 930
140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 385
200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 233
140 Transport and logistics 165
112 Garages 83
100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 76
207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 32
116 Chemical industry 30

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111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 25
124 Construction 24
209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 24
220 White-collar workers in the food industry 20
119 Food trade 17
140.04 Airport ground handling 17
211 Oil industry and trade 15
118 Food industry 14
139 Inland shipping 13
301.01 Ports 13
149.04 Metal trade 10
201 Independent retail 8

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Foreign control in NACE division 52

4,240 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

4.1%

173 of 4,240; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

27%

19,277 of 70,869 FTE; Belgium 14%

Main parent countries: Luxembourg (53), Netherlands (44) and France (17).Show on the map by municipality

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €398.6m awarded 782 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Decreetskosten havenbedrijven Maritieme Toegang
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €338,067 paid 1 recipient · 2024 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
Federal transfers 5.69bn amount as published 9 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van Infrabel met het oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van Infrabel
EU budget €376.5m attributed share 31 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Connecting Europe Facility, Transport
EU research €32.9m EU contribution 29 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Warehousing and transport support

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €25,580 is above Belgium's €16,475. Return on equity of 12.7% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Solvency of 39.3% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.8% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 9.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 85% of the 87 other NACE divisions. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.9% at under 10 FTE, 0.4% at 10 to 49 FTE, 0.5% at 50 to 249 FTE and 0.5% at 250 FTE or more.

Inflow and structure. 22.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 10.1 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The median staff cost per FTE of €72,803 is above Belgium's €61,428. The 5 largest employers hold 17,794 of the 70,869 FTE: 25.1%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 33.3% in financial year 2020 to 39.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €18,839 in financial year 2020 to €23,160 in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 76 bankruptcies and 289 jobs lost, against 47 bankruptcies in 2020.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 13-11-2026 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 52 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 1,276,396 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,156 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. 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.