Kuwait's Al-Mal Investment Company, and Canada's biggest engineering company SNC-Lavalin Group have bid for Tunisia's US$1.4 billion port licence, Reuters reported.
Al-Mal, a firm controlled by family-owned conglomerate Kharafi Group, is teaming up with Hutchison Port in its offer to buy the deep-water Enfida port licence.
Tunisian officials have said they expected the winning bidder to be named later in 2009.
The seaport in Enfida is located some 130km south of Tunis. It would have a capacity of five million containers per year. |
