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Service activities incidental to land transportation

Current registrations 1,406division 52: 6,290
Starters, 12 months 14010.0 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 1812.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 6,412144 employers · latest accounts
Median age 7.8 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 84.8%1,192 of 1,406 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 52210 · financial year 2025 · 615 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
39.5%
division 39.3% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€14,516
division €25,886 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€111,220
division €230,368 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
26.2%
division 26.0% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.4%
division 11.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
12.5%
division 12.8% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.33
division 1.45 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
45.3%
financial year 2024, 632 filings · division 35.8% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.2%
of 704 companies with annual accounts · division 6.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 32.9%35.1%38.0%39.0%36.9%39.5%
Median net result €8,487€16,437€18,923€17,041€13,711€14,516

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
56
3.98% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
59
42.0 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
26-10-2026 Dépannage Christophe
BE 0741.900.045
28-09-2026 AJA DEPANNAGE
BE 0783.475.433
31-08-2026 J-RIDE
BE 0743.889.931
25-08-2026 ABL DEPANNAGE
BE 0783.651.023
25-08-2026 MURANGWA
BE 1032.569.453
21-08-2026 EMPIRE TRADING
BE 0732.931.604
03-08-2026 ZASY GROUP
BE 0781.845.536
17-07-2026 NETHERLANDS BELGIUM TRANSPORT
BE 0722.838.060

Every bankruptcy in division 52, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 911 of 1,406 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 564 · 61.9%
  • Wallonia 192 · 21.1%
  • Brussels 127 · 13.9%
  • Abroad 28 · 3.1%
fewer moremax 157

Largest employers

NACE 52210 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 CENTRE HOSPITALIER REGIONAL DE LA CITADELLELiège 3,235 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 TOURINGBrussels 572 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 INDIGO Park BelgiumGhent 334 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 INTERPARKINGBrussels 325 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 SEDIS LOGISTICSTournai 255 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 207 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 89
  • 112 Garages 78
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 45
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 36
  • 140 Transport and logistics 16
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 8
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 4
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 3
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  • 116 Chemical industry 3
  • 124 Construction 3
  • 140.02 Taxis 3
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 3
  • 302 Hotels and catering 3
  • 140.04 Airport ground handling 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 2
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 2
  • 341 Intermediation in banking and investment services 2
  • 101 Mining 1
  • 104 Steel industry 1

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

Division 52: Warehousing and transport support

Related activities

6 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Logistics services52250 2,657 231 26 18,381
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52230 405 43 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 145 60 0 149

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.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 52

1,101 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 €88,100 396
50 to 249 FTE €76,400 €62,100 to €99,500 127
250 FTE or more €76,400 €61,500 to €91,000 50

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 108,562 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 6 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

Foreign control in NACE division 52

4,238 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €398.6m awarded 781 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Decreetskosten havenbedrijven Maritieme Toegang
  • 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
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €338,067 paid 1 recipient · 2024 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • 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 Service activities incidental to land transportation

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 12.5% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 1.33 is below Belgium's 1.66. Solvency of 39.5% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 1.1% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 12.8 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. 35.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 10.0 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 77% of the 87 NACE divisions. This activity holds 22.4% of the registrations of Warehousing and transport support.

Staff and filing. 45.3% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 4,722 of the 6,412 FTE: 73.6%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 32.9% in financial year 2020 to 39.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €8,487 in financial year 2020 to €14,516 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 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 52210 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 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 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. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. 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.