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Infrabel is a Belgian government-owned public limited company. It builds, owns, maintains and upgrades the Belgian railway network, makes its capacity available to railway operator companies, and handles train traffic control. The stations are still owned by SNCB/NMBS.

Key facts

Company.name
Infrabel
Company.logo
Infrabel logo.svg
Company.type
State-owned enterprise
Company.image
Belgian Rail Maintenance Vehicle R01.jpg
Company.predecessor
SNCB
Company.location_city
Brussels
Company.location_country
Belgium
Company.industry
Railroad
Company.products
Railway Infrastructure
Company.divisions
Infrastructure, network, network access
Company.revenue
€ 1.309 billion (2009)
Company.operating_income
€ -252.16 million (2009)
Company.net_income
€ 69.61 million (2009)
Company.assets
€ 13.834 billion (2009)
Company.num_employees
12,875 (2009)
Company.key_people
Benoît Gilson
Company.parent
(until 2013), state of Belgium
Company.subsid
TUC Rail, Brussels Creosote Centre

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Type
Company
Founded
2005
Location
Brussels, Belgium
Status
Active

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Wikidata facts

Employees
9924
Official website
www.infrabel.be
Image
Belgian Rail Maintenance Vehicle R01.jpg
Motto
Right On Track
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Infrabel
inception
2005-01-01
mobile network code
02
social media followers
5340
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Infrabel is a Belgian government-owned public limited company. It builds, owns, maintains and upgrades the Belgian railway network, makes its capacity available to railway operator companies, and handles train traffic control. The stations are still owned by SNCB/NMBS.

Infrabel was created on 1 January 2005 from the split of the once unitary National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS). By 31 December 2009, it had 12,875 employees, while the CEO was Benoît Gilson, who succeeded the long-serving in that role in 2020. Between its creation in 2005 up until 31 December 2013, 93.6% of stock was owned by SNCB-Holding, representing 20% of the voting rights minus one vote; the remainder, 80% of the voting rights (+ one vote) and 6.4% of stock had been controlled directly by the Belgian state, represented by the minister of the Civil Service and is a Public Companies and by the State Secretary for Mobility. EBITDA for fiscal year 2009 amounted to €55.01 million, EBT to €69.61 million. The balance sheet total as of 31 December 2009 was €13.8 billion.

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