Postal service traffic in competition reached 40.4 million volumes during the second quarter of the current year, indicate data released by the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM). Most of this total, about 34.8 million volumes, involved national traffic.
International traffic, though less significant in the overall number of volumes routed by the providers, rose more rapidly during the period under review, growing by 18% between the first and second quarters of this year. If we set incoming international traffic aside the increase is even greater, having reached 41.6% during the said period.
Postal services operated under a liberalised regime, and therefore not within the exclusive area of the universal service concessionaire, the CTT (Portuguese postal service), comprise express mail and mailed correspondence, books, catalogues, newspapers and other periodicals, as well as postal orders, within the set parameters.
In the case of express mail, the market share of the CTT and its subsidiaries - PostLog and PostExpresso - was 48.1% of traffic and 40.29% of revenues during the second quarter of the year. The remaining operators thus account for shares of 51.59% and 59.71% respectively of traffic and revenues from express mail.
Regarding the remaining services operated in competition - mailed correspondence, postal orders and periodicals - the CTT handled 94.68% of traffic generated during the second quarter, leaving 5.32% of the market share to the rest of the market. The CTT gathered 98.3% of all revenues generated by that traffic; the other operators 1.67%.
The density of points of access to the services did not change much during the second quarter, maintaining 21.6 access points per 100 km2, equivalent to one access point for each 521 inhabitants. Each one of them sent an average of 4 volumes of correspondence operated in competition.
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