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Financials
Financial year 2025
SHIPEX from Antwerpen, company number BE0423055897, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.8 million after tax. For that financial year SHIPEX recorded revenue of € 90.1 million and equity of € 1.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 4.2 million to € 2.8 million. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 45% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.8 million
▼ 34% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5.3 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4.1 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
47
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.4 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 73,200 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.
€ 36,297
▼ 26% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 19.5 million
▲ € 19.4 million vs 2024
€ 1.8 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 11 years.
€ 8.2 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 37 days on average.
€ 702,390
▼ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 205,162,976 | € 129,560,395 | € 98,622,259 | € 90,053,586 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 6,757,658 | € 6,280,062 | € 4,244,422 | € 2,798,372 | ▼ 34% |
| Equity | € 14,935,525 | € 18,441,588 | € 2,875,010 | € 1,573,382 | ▼ 45% |
| Total debts | € 23,006,391 | € 12,200,139 | € 20,720,110 | € 41,050,261 | ▲ 98% |
| Cash | € 1,818,146 | € 3,307,411 | € 5,378,270 | € 5,342,090 | ▼ 1% |
| Land & buildings | € 344,654 | € 284,600 | € 224,547 | € 79,575 | ▼ 65% |
| Retained profit | € 14,811,579 | € 18,317,641 | € 2,751,063 | € 1,449,435 | ▼ 47% |
| Dividend | € 2,886,000 | € 2,774,000 | € 19,811,000 | € 4,100,000 | ▼ 79% |
| Bank debt | € 1,291,811 | € 182,573 | € 126,604 | € 19,513,043 | ▲ € 19.4 million |
| Balance sheet total | € 37,944,891 | € 30,644,702 | € 23,598,094 | € 42,626,618 | ▲ 81% |
| Employees (FTE) | 50.1 | 52.7 | 47 | 47 |
Key figures of SHIPEX, 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 SHIPEX?
What happened at SHIPEX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Benlen VOF stepped down as director. NBB
- Shipex Group BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.8 million (▼ 34% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Benlen VOF became a director. NBB
- Brisam BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Shipex Group BV became a director. NBB
- Brisam BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
In short
From € 6.8 million profit in 2022 to € 2.8 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 5.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 6.8 million profit.
Paid out € 29.6 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of IFW Globe comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SHIPEXThe shares are held by IFW Globe (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Bram De Schepper
Also active at: IFW Globe, VDH Forwarding, Shipex Group
since 2026 · until 2032
Voorzitter van het Bestuursorgaan · represented by Nicolas De Bruyne
Also active at: IFW Globe, VDH Forwarding
since 2025 · until 2030
Managing director · represented by Bram De Schepper
Also active at: IFW Globe, VDH Forwarding, Shipex Group
since 2025 · until 2026
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
IJzerlaan 54 box 2
2060 Antwerpen
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A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 16 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0423.055.897
- VAT number
- BE 0423.055.897
- Registered office
- IJzerlaan 54 bus 2, 2060 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- SHIPEX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 December 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2025
- Contact
- shipex.be
- Activities · NACE
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Goederenvervoer over de weg
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