The Tunisian Federation of Textile and Clothing (FTTH) today expressed, on behalf of its members and the entire export-oriented manufacturing sector, its strong concern about the management of the electricity crisis that has affected the country for six consecutive days now.
“What was supposed to remain an exceptional and temporary arrangement has taken root in the long term, with no reliable visibility offered to economic operators,” FTTH notes.
FTTH indicated that industrial companies no longer know how to organize their activity and that power outages are occurring in an anarchic sequence, with no stable calendar or observed time windows, affecting day and night alike.
“This unpredictability makes it impossible to plan production, exposes sensitive equipment to material damage, and disrupts entire value chains, particularly in continuous-process industries such as textiles, the food industry, or mechanical engineering,” FTTH protests.
The consequences extend far beyond the national framework
FTTH indicated that the consequences of this crisis extend far beyond the national framework and that its international partners and clients, particularly major brands and buyers who make Tunisia a strategic production base, are watching this situation with growing concern.
“The socio-economic impact of this crisis is already catastrophic: production stoppages, additional financial costs, loss of orders, degradation of competitiveness and, in the end, risk to employment in labor-intensive sectors. This assessment is shared by all of the country’s industrial sectors,” FTTH added.
