UK SIC 2007 53201: Licensed carriers

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 53.20 and NACE Rev. 2.1 53.20. ISIC Rev. 4: 5320.

UK SIC 2007 code 53201 is "Licensed carriers". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 53.20, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Other postal and courier activities". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the matching class is 53.20, "Other postal and courier activities".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	53201	Licensed carriers
NACE Rev. 2	53.20	Other postal and courier activities
NACE Rev. 2.1	53.20	Other postal and courier activities
ISIC Rev. 4	5320

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - pickup, sorting, transport and delivery (domestic or international) of letter-post and (mail-type) parcels and packages by firms operating outside the scope of a universal service obligation. One or more modes of transport may be involved and the activity may be carried out with either self-owned (private) transport or via public transport.

What it excludes

This class excludes: - transport of freight, see (according to mode of transport) 49.20, 49.41, 50.20, 50.40, 51.21, 51.22

Other UK SIC codes in the same NACE class

53202 Unlicensed carrier

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.