Postal and courier activities
Activities
NACE division 53 · 3 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other postal and courier activities53200 | 4,986 | 1,429 | 90 | 4,681 |
| Postal and courier activities53100 | 408 | 65 | 11 | 24,003 |
| Postal and courier activities53300 | 35 | 21 | 0 | 2 |
Filed accounts
NACE division 53 · financial year 2025 · 1,185 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 31.8% | 32.3% | 33.9% | 31.8% | 33.1% | 32.4% |
| Median net result | - | - | €7,905 | €6,703 | €6,237 | €5,403 | €6,727 | €5,989 |
| Filed late | 49.1% | 60.6% | 59.0% | 57.5% | 57.4% | 55.2% | 56.2% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 53
98 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €48,500 | €38,000 to €55,200 | 41 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €52,100 | €44,200 to €56,500 | 41 |
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Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 53
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 101 | 97 | 130 | 123 | 133 | 95 | 110 | 147 | 174 | 172 | 196 | 145 |
| Jobs lost | 193 | 157 | 283 | 290 | 260 | 208 | 260 | 288 | 496 | 480 | 520 | 382 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 06-11-2026 | Maertens, Michaël
BE 0762.618.255 · sole trader · Mechelen |
| 06-11-2026 | LOCA-VITE
BE 1015.858.432 |
| 30-10-2026 | DIM COMPANY
BE 0750.511.368 |
| 30-10-2026 | DMD LOGISTICS
BE 1024.684.937 |
| 26-10-2026 | M.F.H TRANSPORT
BE 0766.536.659 |
| 21-10-2026 | Hamza, Senad
BE 0763.826.005 · sole trader · Kontich |
| 20-10-2026 | MBS & CO
BE 0712.687.011 |
| 19-10-2026 | MPATSIBIHUGU
BE 0699.988.424 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 53Measured nationally: Of 108,810 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 15 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 2,208 of 5,388 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 53 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 bpostBrussels 23,730 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 FedEx Express BEMachelen (Brab.) 1,198 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 DHL INTERNATIONALMachelen (Brab.) 754 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 POSTNL PAKKETTEN BELGIETurnhout 465 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Takeaway.com Express Belgium BVBrussels 307 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 320 companies- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 179
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 136
- 140 Transport and logistics 74
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 22
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 8
- 302 Hotels and catering 7
- 140.04 Airport ground handling 5
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 5
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- 201 Independent retail 5
- 119 Food trade 3
- 124 Construction 3
- 140.05 Removals 2
- 145 Horticulture 2
- 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 2
- 104 Steel industry 1
- 112 Garages 1
- 121 Cleaning 1
- 140.01 Buses and coaches 1
- 140.02 Taxis 1
- 142.04 Recovery of raw materials 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
10 of the 1,711 companies in NACE division 53 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (6), France (3) and United Kingdom (1). Together they employ 2,608 of the division's 28,686 FTE: 9.1%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €4.6m awarded
- Federal transfers 773.9m amount as published
- EU budget €11.0m attributed share
- EU research €323,031 EU contribution
Insights on Postal and courier
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €7,382 is below Belgium's €16,465. 16.6% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Solvency of 31.5% is below Belgium's 46.1%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 2.8% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 18.7 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 98% of the 87 other NACE divisions. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 2.7% at under 10 FTE and 0.7% at 10 to 49 FTE.
Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 28.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. No other NACE division counts more. Brussels holds 25.4% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 3.1 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 56.2% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.5% in Belgium. The median staff cost per FTE of €51,113 is below Belgium's €61,429. The 5 largest employers hold 26,453 of the 28,686 FTE: 92.2%.
Direction. The median net result fell from €7,905 in financial year 2020 to €5,989 in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 196 bankruptcies and 520 jobs lost, against 95 bankruptcies in 2020.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 15-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 53 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,359 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,951 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.