Portugal postal traffic up 15.5 pct y/y Q4 2005

Portugal’s postal traffic exceeded 68 million shipments in the last quarter of 2005, up 15.5 pct year-on-year, data from the local communications regulator Anacom showed on April 13, 2005.

Compared to the third quarter of 2005, the country’s postal traffic grew by some 1.0 pct.

Some five million of the total number of 68 million shipments in the three-month period to December 2005 were express mail deliveries.

The national traffic in the last quarter 2005 exceeded 62 million shipments. On the other hand, the outgoing international traffic and the incoming international traffic amounted to 5.438 million shipments and 5.653 million shipments, respectively.

The share of the country’s postal operator CTT-Correios de Portugal in the national postal traffic increased to 93.8 pct in the three-month period October to June 2005 from 93 pct in the previous quarter.

CTT’s share in the Portuguese outgoing postal traffic totalled 88.6 pct in the last quarter of 2005, compared to 88.9 pct in the third three months of the year. On the other hand, CTT’s share in the incoming postal traffic rose to 71.9 pct from 70 pct.

[Alternative/Original name: Autoridade Nacional de Comunicacoes (Anacom)]

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