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The Antwerp port chemical cluster entered 2026 with €3.2 billion in announced decarbonisation investments, a first-phase carbon capture system approaching...
Antwerp processed €12.4 billion in diamond imports in 2023, a 23% drop from the previous year's peak. Rough diamond throughput fell a further 18% in early 2024...
Antwerp's port sector shed roughly 1,200 traditional cargo-handling positions between 2023 and 2025. In the same period, the number of unfilled specialist...
West Flanders has the lowest unemployment rate in Belgium. At 2.1%, reported through mid-2024 and showing no signs of recovery since, it is not a tight labour...
Bruges is a city where 8.3 million visitors generate €1.2 billion in annual tourism revenue, where hotel occupancy runs above 78% year-round, and where the...
Europe's leading automotive port is becoming something else. The Port of Zeebrugge, now operating as the distinct maritime gateway of the merged Port of...
Brussels has operated as the gravitational centre of EU policy influence for decades. That has not changed. What has changed is that the city's professional...
Brussels employs approximately 65,000 people in financial and insurance services across the Capital Region. That figure has barely moved in five years. A...
Brussels presents a contradiction that no other European capital matches in severity. The region records 16.4% general unemployment, among the highest of any...
Brussels South Charleroi Airport is approaching a hard physical limit. With approximately 120,000 annual air traffic movements representing the ceiling imposed...
Charleroi has one of the highest unemployment rates in Belgium. In certain districts, 18.4% of the working-age population is without a job. The logistics...
Charleroi's Gosselies aeropole is growing. Airbus production ramp-ups are pulling orders through Tier-2 suppliers. Sonaca reported €643 million in revenues for...
Thor Park in Genk reported 94% campus occupancy in late 2024 and an 18% headcount increase planned for EnergyVille through 2025. By almost every facility...
Genk's C-mine creative hub houses 65 creative SMEs, a business incubator with a 14-company waiting list, and one of Flanders' most respected media and design...
Genk's Thor Park campus reported 78% industrial occupancy across its 195-hectare former Ford complex by early 2025. Investment commitments for the northern...
Ghent's Zwijnaarde Science Park now hosts one of Europe's most productive translational biotech ecosystems. Argenx, the nanobody pioneer that grew out of UGent...
Ghent's North Sea Port canal zone handled 71.4 million tonnes of cargo in 2023. ArcelorMittal operates Belgium's sole flat carbon steel plant there, employing...
Ghent's digital economy reached a milestone in 2025 that most European secondary cities never approach. A single game studio generated over €600 million in...
Corda Campus in Hasselt reached 94% occupancy by mid-2024. Its 235 resident companies employ over 5,000 people. Phase 3 construction is underway, with 12,000...
Hasselt's logistics and light manufacturing sector employs 8,400 workers across 142 active establishments. That workforce represents 18.3% of the city's total...
Hasselt's city centre tells two stories at once. Walk the Demerstraat and you will count vacant shopfronts at a rate above the Flemish average. Turn toward the...
Kortrijk's furniture and product design ecosystem generates an estimated €450 to €500 million in annual turnover across roughly 150 to 200 active studios,...
Kortrijk's logistics corridor handled approximately 90,000 square metres of warehouse take-up last year with vacancy rates between 0.8% and 1.5%, among the...
West Flanders accounts for 80% of European flax fibre production by volume. Within a 30-kilometre radius of Kortrijk, approximately 420 textile companies...
Leuven's additive manufacturing and medtech cluster entered 2026 with a paradox. The EU Medical Device Regulation that was supposed to slow the ecosystem down...
AB InBev's global headquarters city has spent the past two years doing something that looks contradictory from the outside. It has reduced its white-collar...
The Leuven nanoelectronics cluster entered 2026 with more public capital, more corporate R&D commitments, and more open technical positions than at any point...
Liège Airport handled 1.38 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, securing its place as Europe's sixth-largest cargo airport and Belgium's leading pure-freight hub....
The Province of Liège has one of Belgium's highest unemployment rates and one of its most acute technical hiring shortages. Both figures are current. Neither...
Liège's blast furnaces went cold in 2022. The closure of Blast Furnace A at Seraing ended liquid steel production in a basin that had defined the city's...
Mechelen recorded 425,000 overnight stays in 2023, the highest figure in the city's modern tourism history. Hotel capacity is set to grow by 12% before the end...
Mechelen's logistics sector processed over 450,000 parcels daily through 2025 across three major parcel hubs alone. The Mechelen-Willebroek employment zone...
Mechelen's metalworking corridor is home to approximately 1,850 active enterprises in fabricated metals and machinery manufacturing. Ninety-four per cent of...
Mons spent €86 million transforming itself into one of Belgium's premier cultural destinations. A decade later, its flagship institutions operate at 73%...
Mons sits at the centre of an unusual contradiction. The city anchors one of Belgium's most concentrated pockets of applied photonics and telecom research,...
NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe sits in the Casteau district of Mons, a mid-sized Walloon city where provincial unemployment runs at 12.3%....
Wallonia deployed €45 million in agri-food SME innovation and scaling loans across 2022 and 2023. UCLouvain's Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech campus, sitting inside...
Namur is spending over €20 million on tourism infrastructure designed to bring more visitors into a city that already cannot staff its hotels, kitchens, and...
Namur's inland waterway port system moved approximately 3.2 million tonnes of cargo in 2024, the majority of it aggregates, agricultural products, and...
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