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Tunisia: Fast-growing infrastructure

2012/02/07

 

 

Fast-growing infrastructure

 

  • There is an extensive 20,000 km paved roads network and 360 km of freeways.
  • There are 2,167 kilometers of railways. Tunisian railroads carry 2.1 billion tons-km of merchandise and 39.2 million passengers every year.
  • Seven commercial ports in Tunis: Bizerte, Rades, Sousse, Sfax, Gabes, Zarzis and an oil terminal in Skhira.
  • The construction of a port in deep water to Enfidha is in progress.
  • Ports are entirely installed and equipped for docking and processing car ferries, cruise ships, roll-on/roll-off ships, container ships, bulk carriers and oil tankers. They can handle any kind of freight quickly, inexpensivesly and safely.
  • Tunisia's ports welcome approximately 7,600 ships per year carrying 30 million tons of merchandise.
Frequency of regularly-scheduled shipping lines for transport of merchandise (Port of Rades)
Sailings/week
Marseille (France)
9
Malta
5
Genoa (Italy)
7
Barcelona (Spain)
6
Valencia
5
Livourna (Italy)
1
Gioia-Tauro, Pozzalo, Cagliari, Laspezia and Trapani (Italy)
1

Merchant Marine and Ports Office, 2011

Quality of infrastructure
(1= underdevelopped , 7 = as developped as the world's best)
 
Quality of air transport infrastructure

Quality of port infrastructure

Country
Rank Score Rank
Score
Germany
6
6.5
10
6.1
Switzerland
3
6.5
36
5.2
France
7
6.3
20
5.6
Belgium
14
6.2
4
6.5
Czech Republic
23
6.0
52
4.7
South Africa
17
6.1
50
4.7
Spain
21
6.0
13
5.8
United Kingdom
24
5.9
17
5.6
Tunisia
47
5.3

53

4.6
Egypt
48
5.3
79
4.0
Turkey
40
5.5
69
4.2
Greece
45
5.4
71
4.1
Portugal
39
5.5
42
4.9
Morocco
63

4.8

57
4.5
Hangary
66
4.7
74
4.0
Italy
71
4.6
81
3.9
Romania
113
3.6
128
2.8
Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012, Davos World Economic Forum
 
  • 9 international airports: Tunis, Monastir, Jerba, Tabarka, Tozeur, Enfidha, Gabes, Sfax and Gafsa.
  • 138 foreign airlines:
  • 2.040 weekly flights to and from Europe.
  • The airport capacity is:
  • 19.050 million passengers.
 Average frequency of weekly flights
France
587
Italy
170
Germany
169
Libya
92
United Kingdom
85
Belgium
68
Switzerland
53
Poland
42
Spain
38
Russia
35
Netherlands/Luxemburg
35

Czech Republic/Slovakia

31
Morocco
31
Algeria
28
Saudi- Arabia
20
United Arab Emirates
20
Austria
19
Egypt
16
Sweden
15
Norvège/Finlande
8
Mauritania
6
Syria
6
Malta
5
Senegal
5
Greece
4
Office of Civil Aviation and Airports, OACA , 2011

“The proximity of Europe and the transport means allow for a flexible delivery and even a just-in-time production''H. Baumgartner, Kaschke

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