of InPost shareholders tender their shares to the Advent, FedEx, A&R and PPF consortium. The 80% threshold is cleared: Europe’s parcel-locker leader changes hands.
Post & Parcel · 18 SepEdition of 30 September 2026Hormuz, tariffs, 5% rates.
Hormuz, tariffs, 5% rates.
The world’s crises now ship with every parcel.
Fuel, air freight, the end of duty exemptions, network consolidation: how global tensions travel, link by link, into the cost and speed of a parcel.
Briefings
Briefings of the week
- ASEAN bets on one digital rulebook as every border starts taxing the parcel Geopolitics · Southeast Asia
- Western doors close to China's parcels, so the platforms move the warehouse Geopolitics · China
- Europe now charges every parcel. Who absorbs the bill? Regulation · European Union
- The small-parcel door closes: who pays, who declares, and where volume goes Trade · Global e-commerce
- Hormuz in its eighth month: the parcel pays the fuel bill and the detour Geopolitics · Middle East
- America charges every parcel and puts North America's trade pact on a yearly leash Trade policy · North America
- Tangier, Suez and the parcel: North Africa's gateway opens as its borders tighten Trade · North Africa
- Brazil scraps its small-parcel tax before the vote. Latin America splits on the parcel Geopolitics · Latin America
- The UK's £135 gap: British parcels caught between Washington, Brussels and Beijing Geopolitics · United Kingdom
Industry wire
What moved this week
Temu is now level with Amazon in cross-border purchases, up from under 1% in 2022.
IPC cross-border survey · 30,970 shoppers, 37 countries61% say knowing delivery and customs charges before buying is “essential”.
IPC · 2025 surveyJ&T Express now earns half its revenue outside China; H1 profit doubled.
Investing.com · H1 2026 results slidesbpost opens a 7,930 m² centre in Maldegem for 3,000 parcels a day: letters down 14%, parcels at record highs.
Post & Parcel · 25 SepPoste Italiane lifts its TIM offer to €6.65 a share and drops the two-thirds threshold: a postal operator moving into telecoms.
Post & Parcel · 8 SepDPD passes 4,000 electric vans ahead of peak, with 341 eSprinters arriving in September.
Post & Parcel · 10 SepDeals & investments
The deal tracker
| 25 Sep | bpost | New parcel distribution centre in Maldegem (7,930 m²) | EU | Post & Parcel |
| 18 Sep | Advent, FedEx, A&R, PPF | InPost offer: 89.81% of shares tendered | EU | Post & Parcel |
| 10 Sep | DPD UK | 341 electric vans, fleet above 4,000 | UK | Post & Parcel |
| 8 Sep | Poste Italiane | Raised TIM offer: €6.65 a share, two-thirds threshold dropped | EU | Post & Parcel |