page_title: Menzel Bourguiba
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Menzel Bourguiba / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue aérienne de l'arsenal de Sidi-Abdellah à Menzel Bourguiba (Tunisie)
context_page_description: Menzel Bourguiba, formerly known as Ferryville, is a town located in the extreme north of Tunisia, about 60 kilometres from Tunis, in the Bizerte Governorate.
context_section_description: Menzel Bourguiba is an important town for economic reasons. Its economy is based mainly around metallurgy. It was founded as a naval installation under French rule, because of its strategic location between two lakes: The inland Ichkeul Lake on the west, and Bizerte Lake on the east, which connects to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bizerte canal.
  Its most important economic activity was the ailing state-owned shipyard. The yard has seen its workforce decline, after the high level of activity in the 1970s and 1980s, when Tunisia had a larger merchant fleet and when the Soviet Union used Menzel Bourguiba to drydock its ships. At that time, the yard employed over 1,300 people. It has recently been bought by a French ship repair company, Compagnie Marseille Réparation.
caption: The naval base, Arsenal Sidi-Abdellah in 1960
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