Postal service traffic operated in competition rose to 38 million volumes at the end of the first quarter of this year, indicate data from the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM). Of this total, about 87.6 percent corresponded to national postal traffic.
Postal services operated under a liberalised regime and therefore not covered by the exclusive area granted to the universal service concessionaire (CTT), comprise express mail and the mailing of correspondence, books, catalogues, newspapers and other periodical publications, as well as postal orders, within set parameters.
In the case of express mail, the market share of the CTT and its subsidiary companies - PostLog and PostExpresso - rose to 58% in traffic and 47% in revenues during the first quarter of this year. The remaining postal operators accounted for shares of 42% and 53% in traffic and revenues, respectively.
Note that express mail represents only 8.3% of all traffic in the field of liberalised postal services, but by itself accounts for 54% of generated receipts.
Regarding the remaining services operated in competition - the mailing of correspondence, postal orders and periodical publications - the market share imbalance is more pronounced, given that in this case the CTT were responsible for 95% of routed objects and 99% of generated receipts.
Figures for liberalised services indicate that 4 objects were sent per inhabitant during the first three months of 2003. The density of service access points was 21.6 per 100 km2, equivalent to one access point per 523 inhabitants.
Permission to provide these services in competition is subject to authorisation regimes for express mail and licensing for the other services. Some 7 entities were authorised to provide the former in March: PostLog, PostExpresso, DHL, Chronopost, TNT, UPS and Rangel Expresso. For the latter, 3 entities besides the CTT were authorised: PostExpresso, SDIM and Notícias Directo.
Consult:
- Postal services https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=277884
