Tunisia:
Tunisian phosphate rock output exceeded 2 million mt in the first six months of the year, the first time six-month output has reached that level since the country’s “Arab Spring” in late 2010 to January 2011, Reuters reported, citing state-run phosphate producer Compagnie des phosphates de Gafsa (CPG).
Tunisia produced 1.3 million mt of phosphate rock in the same six months in 2021.CPG aims to produce 5.5 million mt this year, up from 3.7 million mt in 2021, according to the report.
The country resumed phosphate rock exports in May and expects to ship more than 300,000 mt this year, according to CPG (GM May 20, p. 31). The exports were the first appreciable phosphate rock volumes to be shipped from Tunisia in more than seven years.