ANCOM report shows that revenues from postal services grew 13% and the number of international dispatches that entered Romania stood at 46.5 million in 2018, 32% more on the year.
Of the total 582 million postal dispatches (+5%), 536 million were domestic dispatches (+3%), and 46 million were international dispatches (+32%).
Nearly three in four postal dispatches consisted of letters (448 million) and one in six dispatches consisted of packages (94 million). The remainder consisted of postal advertisements (18 million), express dispatches (13.5 million), postal orders (7 million), mail and prints weighing over 2 kg (1.6 million).
The total value of the Romanian postal services market reached RON3.2 billion in 2018, up 13% versus 2017. Revenues from domestic dispatches grew 10%, while revenues from international dispatches grew 19%.
By total revenues, the main competitors on the Romanian postal services market are Fan Courier, with a 21% market share, state-owned postal operator Posta Romana (20%) and Urgent Cargus (13%).
Postal traffic on the universal service segment reached 208 million dispatches in 2018 (up 21% from 2017). Of the total dispatches included in the universal service, 82% were domestic dispatches (170 million dispatches) and the remaining 18% were international dispatches (38 million dispatches).