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Warehousing and support activities for transportation

Current registrations 12division 52: 6,290
Starters, 12 months 650.0 per 100 · Belgium 8.9

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 7 of 12 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Brussels 3 · 42.9%
  • Flanders 2 · 28.6%
  • Wallonia 1 · 14.3%
  • Abroad 1 · 14.3%
fewer moremax 3

Companies

12 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 1 company
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 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

1 other activity
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Warehousing and support activities for transportation52310 42 22 1 -

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 52 · financial year 2025 · 3,492 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
39.3%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€25,885
Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€229,456
Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
26.0%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.4%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
12.8%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.45
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
35.8%
financial year 2024, 3,006 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.4%
of 3,886 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --33.3%34.7%36.3%38.1%38.6%39.5%
Median net result --€18,739€26,659€27,596€24,411€24,553€23,286
Filed late 36.6%45.0%38.3%39.8%38.2%35.2%35.8%-

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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

1,103 employers
Median
€72,800
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€58,900 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 €70,400 €56,500 to €88,100 529
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 €90,700 51

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 782 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 Warehousing and support activities for transportation

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 50.0 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more. This activity holds 0.2% of the registrations of Warehousing and transport support.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 52320 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 52320, 3 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.