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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Independent Container Line from Antwerpen, company number BE0795604490, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 95.2 million after tax. For that financial year Independent Container Line recorded revenue of € 454 million and equity of € 124.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 98.1 million to € 95.2 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 23, 2026.
€ 124.5 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 95.2 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 16 million
▲ 48% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 93 million paid out
98 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
70
▲ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 21.1 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 301,200 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.
€ 2.2 million
▼ 27% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 1.7 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 278,619
▼ 69% vs 2024
€ 272,483 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 24.5 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 27 days on average.
€ 13 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 568,566,582 | € 444,758,866 | € 454,029,922 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 231,833,581 | € 98,147,137 | € 95,244,808 | ▼ 3% |
| Equity | € 121,567,586 | € 122,214,723 | € 124,459,531 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 94,277,036 | € 73,388,465 | € 66,318,736 | ▼ 10% |
| Cash | € 27,909,042 | € 10,821,576 | € 16,030,654 | ▲ 48% |
| Land & buildings | € 5,646,105 | € 5,456,868 | € 5,267,631 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 35,050,037 | € 35,697,174 | € 37,941,982 | ▲ 6% |
| Dividend | € 229,900,000 | € 97,500,000 | € 93,000,000 | ▼ 5% |
| Bank debt | € 1,514,592 | € 906,590 | € 278,619 | ▼ 69% |
| Balance sheet total | € 216,824,869 | € 197,317,949 | € 193,127,683 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 67 | 69 | 70 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of Independent Container Line, fiscal years 2023 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 Independent Container Line?
What happened at Independent Container Line in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 95.2 million (▼ 3% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Christophe Döhle became a director. NBB
- Jonathan Kirkland became a director. NBB
- CVS Consulting BV became a director. NBB
- Dale Ross became a director. NBB
- Box Invest NV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 231.8 million profit in 2023 to € 95.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 248,202 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 231.8 million profit.
Paid out € 420.4 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of Box Invest comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Independent Container LineBehind Independent Container Line are Christophe Döhle, Jonathan Kirkland, CVS Consulting BV, Dale Ross and Box Invest NV. The shares are held by Box Invest (10%). It owns 100% of Independent Container Line Europe NV, 99% of Independent Transport Solutions, 98.7% of Hemisphere Logistics and 20% of Antwerp Container Terminal itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Christophe Döhle
Director
since 2023
Jonathan Kirkland
Chairman of the board
since 2023
Director · represented by Chris Van Steenbergen
since 2023
Dale Ross
Director
since 2023
Director · represented by Stéphane Mercier
since 2023
Shareholders
10%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Lange Lozanastraat 270
2018 Antwerpen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0795.604.490
- VAT number
- BE 0795.604.490
- Registered office
- Lange Lozanastraat 270, 2018 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Independent Container Line · ICL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 January 2023
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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