2010.08.09The recovery of the industry in Tunisia 1st Semester 2010

The Ministry of Industry has provided data that analyze the results of various indicators of Tunisian industry over the first 6 months of 2010, there was a significant increase of 16.6% for industrial exports with a TDS value of 9325 over the same period of 2009.

This performance is attributable mainly to two areas:
Textile / Clothing which grew by 4.6% in the first half of 2010.
the area of EMI, the first industrial exporter which records, for the first half of the year, a growth of 39% over the same period of 2009;
On the other hand, according to Eurostat, the first quarter of 2010 ranks Tunisia as the largest exporter to the EU Meda south. Tunisia maintains this leading position and acquired in 2008 and reinforced in 2009.

Like the dynamics of industrial exports, the sector of phosphates and its derivatives has also benefitted from an economic recovery. It displays a trade surplus of 901 TDM 255 TDM growth compared to the budgeted 2010.

This increase is due mainly to rising prices of phosphate and phosphate fertilizers due to the explosion in global demand for agricultural products and the need to expand cropland. World demand for phosphate is also supported by new applications of phosphate (production of bioenergy and the direct application of phosphate fertilizer to replace crude soluble ...). To this end, national production will be around 9 million tonnes in early 2011 against an average of 8 million tonnes currently to meet the additional demand.
All this performance is also attributable to the continued efforts by undertakings in terms of competitiveness, technological development that result in an ever more important in the Upgrading Program (PMN) and National Quality Program ( QNP).

For the first half of 2010, the Program Upgrade recorded a 45% growth in membership, or 260 against 179 companies for the same period of 2009.

Reference Program, the PMN, in addition to improving the industrial competitiveness of enterprises, contributes strongly to their technological development. Thus, since its inception, this program allows the ownership of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) by businesses:

the number of companies with software for CAD / CAM increased from 50 in 1995-2000 in 2010
The ratios increased significantly, rising from 9% in 1995, it is around 19% currently.
Complementary component to efforts to upgrade the industry, the National Program of Quality Promotion (PNQ) aims to:

develop industrial enterprises of modern quality management,
create momentum for reform beneficial to the company from improving working conditions to increase the margin, through the elimination of malfunctions,
obtain certification under international standards and benchmarks.
For the first half of 2010, the program scores since no fewer than 90 new companies have been certified, and what the different standards in horizontal or sectoral. Nationally, the number of certified companies amounted to 1,457 companies.

Regarding the stock of short-term measures to support SMEs established in early 2009 and renewed twice (for a total period of 18 months), this support program has benefited 427 companies and has helped save 118,200 jobs .

During the first half of 2010, 96 cases were reviewed, against 220 cases examined in the same period of 2009. These measures have been applied early by Tunisia at the start of the crisis have been a definite contribution to business and preserving jobs. They cost the state 7.8 million dinars.

Taking advantage of economic recovery and applications that will diminish over time, these measures are not renewed and will expire in the first half of 2010.

Source: cefe-nabeul.com

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