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In the first half of the 2019 traffic of the goods in the Tunisian ports it is diminished of -16,0%
In the second solo trimester the decrease has been of -20,5%
August 2, 2019
In the first six months of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the Tunisian ports is diminished of the -16,0% being is pairs to 13,2 million tons regarding 15,7 million tons in the first half of 2018. The import traffic is dropped of -14,7% coming down to the 8,2 million one tons and that of export has recorded a contraction of -18,0% attesting itself to the 5,0 million one tons.
Altogether in the field of the liquid bulk the hydrocarbon traffic has marked a piled reduction of the -28,1% being to 3,5 million tons and the other cargo volumes have shown a bending of -11,1% having had totaled the 484 thousand one tons. In the section of the bulk sand banks the cereals have been 2,5 million tons (- 10.2%) and the other cargos 2,7 million tons (- 16.6%). Less emphasized the decrease in the segment of the goods several that has closed the first semester of 2019 with the almost 4,1 million one tons (- 6.5%), included 2,0 million containerized tons of goods (- 6.3%) totaled with a handling of containers pairs to 239.350 teu (- 0.2%) and 1,0 million tons of rotabili (+0.6%).
After a contraction of the -10,9% of the total traffic in the solo first trimester of the 2019, in the quarter next decrease marked being it is enlivened 6,7 million tons of goods totally, with a decrease of the -20,5% on according to trimester of 2018, of which 4,2 million tons in import (- 18.1%) and 2,4 million tons in export (- 24.2%).
In according to trimester of the 2019 total of hydrocarbons it has been of 1,8 million tons (- 33.7%) and that of the other liquid bulk 254 thousand tons (- 27.8%). The traffic of the cereals is piled at less than 1,3 million tons (- 9.9%) and that of the other solid bulk to 1,3 million tons (- 23.3%). In the field of the goods several the total has been almost 2,1 million tons (- 7.7%), of which 1,1 million containerized tons of goods (- 6.2%) and 539 thousand tons of rotabili (+4,4%).
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