Year: 2024

CEO of the Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX), Mourad Ben Hassine, said that his institution is working with the Ministry of Trade to implement a national export strategy focusing on several markets, including Asia and Latin America. In response to a question about Tunisia’s economic diplomacy, Ben Hassine added that a plan had been established to identify Tunisia’s strategic orientations of market access. In an interview with TAP’s TV studio, Ben Hassine noted that technical committees would be meeting permanently to resolve problems hampering the export of agricultural products to China.…

A joint venture between the TotalEnergies and Eren groups, and the Austrian electricity company Verbund, announced on Tuesday the inking of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tunisia. This agreement aims to set up a major green hydrogen production site in the south of Tunisia, hydrogentoday reports. By 2030, the plant aims to produce 200,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year (equivalent to around a quarter of France’s annual hydrogen consumption). Ultimately, the group plans to produce 1 million tonnes a year. A first phase will be built specifically from the…

The 7th edition of the “Financing Investment and Trade in Africa” (FITA 2024) international conference will be held on June 11 and 12 in Tunis, under the slogan “Strengthening local transformation and technology transfer for sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa”, at the initiative of the Tunisia-Africa Business Council (TABC). Some 1,000 participants from 65 African and European countries are expected to attend this economic event, represented by high-level delegations from leading companies, banks and continental and regional financial institutions. TABC President Anis Jaziri emphasized that this major economic event…