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Warehousing and support activities for transportation

NACE 522 · division 52 Warehousing and transport support
Current registrations 5,327division 52: 6,288
Starters, 12 months 576division 52 · 9.2 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Bankruptcies, 5 years 1512.83% of the registrations · Belgium 1.61%
Employment (FTE) 80,294division 52 · financial year 2025
Median age 10.1 yearsdivision 52 · Belgium 10.7 years

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 52 · financial year 2025 · 3,486 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
39.4%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€25,885
Belgium €16,554
Median equity
€231,855
Belgium €98,547
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

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 52

1,102 employers
Median
€72,800
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€58,700 to €89,200
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 €70,400 €56,500 to €88,100 529
10 to 49 FTE €73,400 €60,200 to €87,800 395
50 to 249 FTE €76,000 €62,200 to €98,800 128
250 FTE or more €76,400 €61,500 to €91,000 50

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 12 months
61
division 52 · 9.7 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 5.5

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
26-10-2026 Dépannage Christophe
BE 0741.900.045
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
23-09-2026 TRANS MORE
BE 0802.429.035
16-09-2026 786 S.A.W.
BE 0588.993.995

Every bankruptcy in division 52, last 90 days

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 52
Number
154
Half have run longer than
22 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
37%
Belgium: 31%

Measured 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn.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 3 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 · 4,037 of 5,327 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Flanders 2,924 · 72.4%
  • Wallonia 641 · 15.9%
  • Brussels 444 · 11.0%
  • Unknown 28 · 0.7%
fewer moremax 1,455

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

Foreign control in NACE division 52

4,244 registered companies

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 support activities for transportation

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 52 is higher than that of 71% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is higher than that of 88% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 52 is 0.8%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 4,107 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 03-11-2026 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 522 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 52, not only NACE 522. 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.