CTT Group invests €5m in green fleet
CTT Group, parent of Correios de Portugal, has invested EUR 5m in a new fleet of greener delivery and transport vehicles. The newly-privatised national postal service in Portugal said the 184 vehicles include all types of transport.
It includes investment in some electric-powered vehicles including 18 vans and motorcycles, which CTT Group said was just the start of its move into the environmentally-friendly form of transport, with the green fleet expected to grow in the medium term.
The company said the vehicle investment was part of its commitment to service quality for the people of Portugal, and should increase the efficiency of the network.
Last year, CTT Group’s fleet drove 66m kilometres by road delivering to all addresses across Portugal.
The new vehicles are expected to cut CTT’s carbon footprint by more than 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the annual emissions of 231 Portuguese families.
Using more efficient technology, the new vehicles should also save more than 426,000 litres of fossil fuels over their lifetimes.
CTT Group said the new vehicles acquired this year cover all types of transport, from postal delivery to connections between production and logistics hubs, along with street delivery.
The new fleet includes 10 electric vans, 8 electric motorcycles, 154 electric-assisted bikes, six fuel-efficient light vans, 25 cleaner-driving heavy vehicles and six next-generation trailers.
CTT Group said the new vehicles join the 150 electrically-assisted bicycles the company acquired in 2013, which make the company’s 3,701-strong fleet one of the greenest in the country, with 8% of its vehicles now either electric-powered or electrically assisted.
“This is without comparison in Portugal,” the company said, stating that now its entire vehicle fleet has an average age of less than four years.
“These vehicles make up the backbone that allows CTT to serve all Portuguese people, every weekday. CTT is among postal operators in the world with the best indicators for quality of service in an evolving industry for the type of objects that must be transported, particularly in terms of volume. Fleet renewal is another strategy to maintain this high level of quality.”
