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In 2021 the traffic in goods in Tunisian ports grew by 4.8% percent
The cereal is down
March 23, 2022
Last year Tunisia's ports handled a total of 28.0 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 4.8% percent on the 2020 that generated exclusively in the second quarter of 2021 when a growth of the + 16.2% of the eventful volumes compared to the same period of the previous year, which offset the -1.6% decline marked in the first quarter of 2021 and those of -0.3% and -1.7% totaled in the third and fourth quarters of the same year.
The Tunisian port authority Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports (OMMP) said last year import traffic was 17.6 million tonnes (+ 1.6%) and that of export of 10.4 million tonnes (+ 10.7%).
To decrease last year was only total grain traffic, which amounted to 4.7 million tonnes (-11.8%). In fact, in fact, containerized traffic was also found when counted in terms of 20-foot handling containers, which resulted in 469,518 teu (-2.8%), while in terms of the handling of the container traffic the container traffic is result in a slight increase of 0.5% percent, which stood at almost 4.3 million tonnes. They grew, instead, both the other solid bulk with 6.3 million tonnes (+ 26.2%), and hydrocarbons with 7.5 million tonnes (+ 2.8%) and the other solid bulk with 964mila tonnes (+ 16.7%), as well as the rotatable with less than 2.1 million tonnes. of tons (+ 10.7%).
In the segment of liner passenger ships, in 2021 traffic in Tunisian ports was 585mila people (+ 83.2%) and the cars carried were 242mila (+ 75.8%).
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Last year Tunisia's ports handled a total of 28.0 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 4.8% percent on the 2020 that generated exclusively in the second quarter of 2021 when a growth of the + 16.2% of the eventful volumes compared to the same period of the previous year, which offset the -1.6% decline marked in the first quarter of 2021 and those of -0.3% and -1.7% totaled in the third and fourth quarters of the same year. 
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