“ INTO THE NEXT DECADE ” – North African Transportation and Logistics Market
Keeping abreast of progress in Tunisia
Tunisia plays a key role as a regional interface. Over the past nine years Tandem Logistics has gained an equally important position in the logistics industry of the Maghreb’s smallest country. The company will continue to bank on trade with Tunisia’s neighbours.
The Tunisian company Tandem Logistics is rapidly approaching its tenth anniversary.
Co-founder and managing director Habib Bouricha has made Tandem Logistics a well-established name across the entire North African market.
The firm banks particularly on its welltrained employees. Bouricha knows that they are one of the crucial elements of Tandem Logistics’ positive development.
“Surround yourself with the right people, and success is already guaranteed.” Performance is not the only criterion in the hotly-contested logistics market, but also
how you advertise it. “Success is based on a little knowledge, a little know-how –and mostly on being able to sell these qualities to those seeking your services.”
Tunisia developing well
Tandem Logistics is headquartered in Tunis, and also has an office in Morocco’s main centre of trade and industry, Casablanca.
The company operates in Algeria and Libya too, with its activities there coordinated from Tunis. For Tandem its domestic Tunisian market remains the central business fulcrum. Ever since the democratisation process started gaining impetus in the country it has become more and more attractive as a location for investors, according
to Bouricha. This has a positive knock-on effect on the transport industry. “Many European companies use Tunisia as a gateway to the rest of the Maghreb region.”
Two free-trade zones, which the government has set up in Bizerte and Zarzis and which are in the process of being expanded, also help these advances.
Friendly relations with neighbouring Algeria and Libya help Bouricha to feel optimistic about his business prospects.
The Zarzis economic zone in the south is important for the logistics sector too, as many services for the Algerian oil and gas industry are handled there, with transport companies being asked to haul equipment overland. Libya is important to Tunisia because airfreight destined for Tripoli is always routed via Tunis.
Libyan and Algerian activities are key
Even if the situation remains highly unstable in Libya, Bouricha is optimistic for Tunisian logisticians such as Tandem. “Tunisia never definitely closed its border
with Libya. When reconstruction gets going again there, Tunisian companies will benefit,” the manager is convinced.
Bouricha also hopes that Tandem as well as other logisticians will get some impulses from international corporations’ plans to establish warehousing facilities for the oil and gas industry in Tunisia.
Central storage hubs will enable logisticians to also serve production facilities in neighbouring countries.
Bouricha thus remains convinced that the prospects for North Africa are far better that many people seem to assume. He intends to benefit from positive developments
with Tandem Logistics and lead the firm into a successful second decade.
Marco Wölfli
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