According to well-informed source at the Office for Civil Aviation and Airports (OACA), three Tunisian airports out of 7 will take advantage of an extension of the exemption of charges for airports and air navigation services for the next three years (2009-2011). These airports are those of Tozeur-Nefta, Ksar-Gafsa and Tabarka.
In a prospective move, our site African Manager has conducted a survey targeting a variety of managers and senior executives of Tunisian companies in order to check the main trends and prospects of investment in Tunisia during 2009 ...
In anticipation of its IPO, Servicom company decided, through its Extraordinary General Meeting of 25 September 2008, to increase its share capital by the creation of 100 000 new shares with a cash value ...
Textiles and clothing industry which is a major export sector could not fail to be affected by the international financial crisis which has been quick to turn into an economic one. Identifying the impact of the crisis on the Tunisian textile & clothing industry, a survey conducted by CEPEX ...
Tunis is among the ten least expensive cities in the world, as ranked by Mercer HRC a leading global provider of consulting, outsourcing and investment services in the light of the results of its survey on the cost of living for expatriates in 2008. Out of 143 cities covered by the survey , the Tunisian capital ranks 133. Its cost of living index posts 64.4 ...
The crisis in the auto sector is going on for over 3 months. But even if Tunisian exports in auto parts rose by over 20%, figures of the last quarter of 2008 compared with the same period of 2007, report a 5 % decline. Regarding car sales, they reached during 2008 first 11 months 28,668 VP, according to figures released ...
Esam Jenah, Chairman of Gulf Finance House, formally briefed, last week, the Tunisian head of State on Tunis City Telecom (TTC) project which will be carried out by "Vision 3", a venture including GFH (Golf House Financing ), Ithmar Bank and ADIH (Abu Dhabi Investment House). ...
The first press conference held by Minister of Communication Technologies Glai Haj, has been mostly that of a meeting of figures and letters with journalists. The minister provided a lot of figures highlighting the importance of ICT (Information an Communication Technology) in Tunisia and the achievements of this sector.
In its latest report, the Competition Council evokes the ins and outs of a case submitted to it by the Union chamber of design and consultancy offices over a dispute with ECTI which is accused of conducting activities and providing services that break the Tunisian legislation on foreign operators activities in Tunisia as well as the provisions of the tax law and those of the Competition Act.
In its 2009 Report on Tunisia Oxford Business Groupsays that amidst the turbulent background of the global economic crisis,” 2008 has turned out to be a surprisingly robust year for the Tunisian economy”. Given the measured and steady manner in which the country tends to implement fundamental economic reforms, the year has seen a significant amount ...
2008 is over. Economically, it was not a bad year. But it was not the happiest one neither. Overall, Tunisia macroeconomic parameters have done well: growth, exports, investment (local and foreign), finance and banks. Except unemployment, employment and inflation, all the rest did well in 2008. Some will say that this year 2008 ...
A new World Bank report, Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2009, examines the impact of the financial crisis on GDP growth across the world, which has dimmed short-term prospects for developing countries In Tunisia, says the Report, GDP eased to 5.1 percent growth in 2008, from 6.3 percent in 2007 ...
