Tunisia initiates a vast project to modernize its public transport with the order of 418 new buses with a Chinese manufacturer, for an amount of 176 million dinars. The contract was signed this Monday, June 9 in Sousse on Monday, at the headquarters of the Sahel transport company.
Initially planned for the TRANSTU alone, this order was extended to regional companies as well as to the National Interurban Transport Company, in order to respond to recurring tensions in school and university transport.
The distribution includes 40 air -conditioned tourist buses, 260 buses articulated for the regions, and 118 standard buses for the TransTu. The selection of beneficiaries based on a methodology taking into account the demography and the number of school subscribers.
The Sahel transport company, which covers the governorates of Sousse, Monastir and Mahdia, will be the main beneficiary of this order.
This new acquisition is added to a previous Chinese order: on May 18, 2025, 300 King Long buses had already been taken from the port of Xiamen, China, as part of a separate market valued at 152 million dinars.
