Spanish post office goes head-to-head with CTT in Portugal’s parcel delivery market

Spain’s post office company is to enter the Portuguese market with a 24-hour parcel delivery service.

Correos, a courier company 100% owned by the Spanish state, announced on Tuesday that it will start to expand internationally and also aims to enter the market for financial services.

This expansion is to kick-off in Portugal and puts the company head to head with CTT and other smaller competitors already working in Portugal.
“We aim to become the most efficient 24-hour delivery network in the Iberian Peninsula,” said Correos President, Juan Manuel Serrano. At a press briefing in Madrid.

Unlike CTT, Correos remains a state-owned company and is not yet operating in the financial sector, something that the Spanish company wants to change, pointing to the offer of financial services in its 2,400 points of sale as one of the ways to improve its business.

Correos estimates that it closed the 2018 financial year with losses of €150 million, projecting a €7.4 million loss for this year.

CTT already has delivers parcels for Amazon across Spain through subsidiary, Tourline Express, but not in the home market of Portugal, “which will happen one day,” according to the President of the CTT, last year.

Amazon orders are delivered in Portugal by the Spanish delivery company, Seur.