Ports of Tunisia

Sub-subject: Ports of Tunisia (Goulette, Rades, Bizerte, Sousse, and Sfax):

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Tunisian ports
2. OMMP (Office of the Merchant Navy and Ports)
3. Ports of Goulette, Rades, Bizerte, Sousse, Sfax, Gabes, and Zarzis

Sample of the Sub-subject: Tunisian Ports:

Sub-Subject Description: Tunisian ports.

The Office of the Merchant Navy and Ports: is the port authority of Tunisian ports managing the seven Tunisian ports (1300 kilometres in the Mediterranean Sea): Goulette, Rades, Bizerte, Sousse, Sfax, Gabes, and Zarzis.

Port of Radès:

1. Container traffic (79% of Tunisian traffic)
2. Rolling units (76% of Tunisian traffic)
3. Extension of the Port of La Goulette

Port of La Goulette (Tunis).

1. Cars, cereals
2. Passengers

Port of Bizerte - Menzel Bourguiba.

1. Access to Suez Canal (Egypt) and Gibraltar (Europe/Spain)
2. Business park of Bizerte
3. Petroleum, cement, textile, food processing, and leather

Port of Sousa.

1. Cereals, hydrocarbons, solid, and liquid bulk
2. 544,000 tonnes.

Port of Sfax

1. Solid bulk: cereals and phosphates
2. Traffic: 991,000 tonnes

Port of Gabes.

1. Commercial and industrial port
2. Chemical products
3. Bulk traffic

Port of Zarzis

1. Farming and fishery products, salt, and petroleum

Tunisian Ports belongs to the Maghrebian Economic Area (Islamic Civilisation and African Civilisation).

Trans-African Corridors related to the ports of Tunisia:

1. Cairo-Dakar Corridor
2. Algiers-Lagos (Feeder)

Maritime Transport in Africa - Maghrebian Ports