Infrabel
Sign in to saveInfrabel 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
GRID grid.435143.4
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.