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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 492 to 434.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Centrale Betaalkassen der Gentse Centrale der Zee- en Binnenvaartwerkgevers from Gent, company number BE0409100963, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1 million after tax. For that financial year Centrale Betaalkassen der Gentse Centrale der Zee- en Binnenvaartwerkgevers recorded a gross margin of € 2.2 million and equity of € 2.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -4 million to € 1 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 81% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1 million
▲ still € 4 million loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.1 million
▼ 34% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
434
▼ 20 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 802,650
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 1,800 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 199,714
▲ € 177,160 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 235,937
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 37% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 7.1 million
▲ 35% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,334,377 | € 959,222 | € 524,707 | € 2,171,699 | ▲ € 1.6 million |
| Profit after taxes | € 393,757 | € -85,389 | € -3,978,590 | € 1,016,742 | ▲ € 5 million |
| Equity | € 5,320,939 | € 5,235,550 | € 1,256,960 | € 2,273,702 | ▲ 81% |
| Total debts | € 10,662,600 | € 10,590,678 | € 9,586,495 | € 11,427,009 | ▲ 19% |
| Cash | € 6,428,815 | € 6,554,517 | € 3,202,613 | € 2,115,106 | ▼ 34% |
| Land & buildings | € 410,195 | € 357,865 | € 305,534 | € 254,823 | ▼ 17% |
| Retained profit | € 5,320,939 | € 5,235,550 | € 1,256,960 | € 2,273,702 | ▲ 81% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 235,937 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 17,369,475 | € 17,337,983 | € 12,480,341 | € 15,456,592 | ▲ 24% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 492 | 454 | 434 | ▼ 20 |
Key figures of Centrale Betaalkassen der Gentse Centrale der Zee- en Binnenvaartwerkgevers, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to Centrale Betaalkassen der Gentse Centrale der Zee- en Binnenvaartwerkgevers?
What happened at Centrale Betaalkassen der Gentse Centrale der Zee- en Binnenvaartwerkgevers in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Sam De Wilde stepped down as director. NBB
- Matthieu Reyniers stepped down as director. NBB
- Frank Peeters stepped down as director. NBB
- Tom Kolba stepped down as director. NBB
- Yves Bienfet stepped down as director. NBB
- Johan De Raeve stepped down as director. NBB
- Bart Laureys stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
In short
From € 393,757 profit in 2022 to € 1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 108,997 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 1 million profit.
On average € 5,000 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
Yves Bienfet
Director
Also active at: MOLENS SINT MARTINUS - MOULINS SINT MARTIN, Apo - Phar - Agra, Agricultural Trading Agency International, GHENT TRANSPORT AND STORAGE, GHENT WAREHOUSING SYSTEMS, NEGOTIE en VALORISATIE van MATERIALEN, TURBULENT, IMMO LITA +13 more
since 2025 · until 2028
Johan De Raeve
Director
Also active at: Algemene Houtbehandelingen, Stukwerkers-Havenbedrijf, DE BAERDEMAECKER, INTERFACE TERMINAL GENT, I-MOTION Shipping, DR-Hold, DR-Immo
since 2025 · until 2028
Bart Laureys
Director
Also active at: SEA-TANK TERMINAL, SEA-RAIL, SEA-TANK 700 B, ANTWERP CONTAINER TERMINAL, SEA-INVEST SHIPPING AGENCY
since 2025 · until 2028
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Skaldenstraat 7 box C
9042 Gent
Skaldenstraat 7C
9042 Gent
Active since 21 December 2006
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Microsoft 365
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Details
- Company number
- 0409.100.963
- VAT number
- BE 0409.100.963
- Registered office
- Skaldenstraat 7 bus C, 9042 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Centrale Betaalkassen der Gentse Centrale der Zee- en Binnenvaartwerkgevers · CEPG
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 December 1949
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Contact
- cepg.be
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