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Warehousing and support activities for transportation

NACE 52
Current registrations 6,286
Starters, 12 months 5769.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.8
Bankruptcies, 12 months 619.7 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 70,7841,206 employers · latest accounts
Median age 10.1 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

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 2,656 230 26 18,384
Service activities incidental to land transportation52210 1,404 138 18 6,641
Warehousing and storage52100 1,027 55 11 15,341
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52230 405 42 1 6,713
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52249 345 13 1 6,032
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52220 300 16 2 4,646
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52241 267 8 2 12,878
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52260 143 58 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 · 3,487 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
39.3%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€25,886
Belgium €16,539
Median equity
€231,499
Belgium €98,485
Loss-making
26.0%
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
35.8%
financial year 2024 · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --33.3%34.7%36.3%38.1%38.6%39.5%
Median net result --€18,735€26,630€27,611€24,362€24,446€23,361
Filed late 36.6%45.1%38.3%39.9%38.3%35.3%35.8%-

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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 52

1,100 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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €70,600 €56,500 to €88,200 528
10 to 49 FTE €73,400 €60,200 to €87,800 395
50 to 249 FTE €76,400 €62,100 to €99,500 127
250 FTE or more €76,400 €61,500 to €91,000 50

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
172
2.74% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Bankruptcies per year in division 52

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies655650615347396270897662
Jobs lost1801991111381321,61875140161210289148

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
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
07-10-2026 GSKI EXPRESS
BE 0677.759.487
07-10-2026 TRANS MORE
BE 0802.429.035
28-09-2026 AJA DEPANNAGE
BE 0783.475.433
28-09-2026 Piky Solutions
BE 1023.353.958

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 108,606 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 5 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 6,286 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 3,377 · 68.9%
  • Wallonia 857 · 17.5%
  • Brussels 483 · 9.9%
  • Abroad 182 · 3.7%
fewer moremax 1,600

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Largest employers

NACE division 52 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Centrale der Werkgevers aan de Haven van AntwerpenAntwerp 10,219 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 CENTRE HOSPITALIER REGIONAL DE LA CITADELLELiège 3,235 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Haven van Antwerpen - BruggeAntwerp 1,621 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 DHL AVIATIONSteenokkerzeel 1,403 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 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 932
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 385
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 232
  • 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

4,244 registered companies
Companies with a foreign parent
4.1%
172 of 4,244; Belgium 0.3%
Staff at those companies
27%
19,177 of 70,784 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 €4.95bn awarded 785 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
  • Federal transfers 6.03bn amount as published 13 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
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €60.1m paid 5 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
  • EU budget €382.6m attributed share 32 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Connecting Europe Facility, Transport
  • EU research €40.6m EU contribution 31 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 €25,886 is above Belgium's €16,539. 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, 9.7 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 86% 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 €61,416. The 5 largest employers hold 17,794 of the 70,784 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 €18,735 in financial year 2020 to €23,361 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 05-11-2026 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 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 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.

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