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NACE 52250 · division 52 Warehousing and transport support
Current registrations 2,657division 52: 6,290
Starters, 12 months 2318.7 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 269.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 18,381521 employers · latest accounts
Median age 10.1 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 87.5%2,326 of 2,657 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

27 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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Filed accounts

NACE 52250 · financial year 2025 · 1,517 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
37.9%
division 39.3% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€25,643
division €25,886 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€215,954
division €230,368 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
25.5%
division 26.0% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.3%
division 11.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
14.8%
division 12.8% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.46
division 1.45 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.6%
financial year 2024, 1,599 filings · division 35.8% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.8%
of 1,717 companies with annual accounts · division 6.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 31.3%32.7%33.5%36.3%37.4%37.9%
Median net result €25,122€34,807€40,134€27,091€25,030€25,643

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
77
2.90% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
92
34.6 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
03-11-2026 LILY GROUPE
BE 0785.576.967
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 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
24-07-2026 INOO DRIVE
BE 0781.501.680

Every bankruptcy in division 52, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 2,122 of 2,657 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 1,543 · 72.7%
  • Wallonia 276 · 13.0%
  • Brussels 232 · 10.9%
  • Abroad 71 · 3.3%
fewer moremax 918

The balance sheets of division 52 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 52250 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 DHL AVIATIONSteenokkerzeel 1,403 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 FedEx Express Belgium Air HubGrâce-Hollogne 1,168 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Kuehne + NagelAntwerp 997 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 CATERPILLAR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES EUROPEGrimbergen 750 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 BLECKMANN BELGIË NVKruisem 723 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 762 companies
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 571
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 189
  • 140 Transport and logistics 84
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 67
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 37
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 9
  • 124 Construction 8
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 8
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  • 116 Chemical industry 5
  • 140.04 Airport ground handling 5
  • 149.04 Metal trade 5
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 5
  • 119 Food trade 4
  • 139 Inland shipping 4
  • 140.02 Taxis 4
  • 301.01 Ports 4
  • 112 Garages 3
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 3
  • 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 3
  • 118 Food industry 2

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
Service activities incidental to land transportation52210 1,406 140 18 6,412
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

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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
Companies with a foreign parent
4.1%
172 of 4,238; Belgium 0.3%
Staff at those companies
27%
19,177 of 70,552 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 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 Logistics services

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €25,643 is above Belgium's €16,520. Solvency of 37.9% is below Belgium's 46.1%. Liquidity of 1.46 is below Belgium's 1.66.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.8% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 9.8 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 86% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. 20.0% 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. Flanders holds 75.2% of the seats, against 64.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 5,040 of the 18,381 FTE: 27.4%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 31.3% in financial year 2020 to 37.9% 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 52250 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.

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