On 8 November, the 9th Libya Construction Expo \u2013 Tripoli\u2019s leading event dedicated to the construction and building industry \u2013 was opened at the Tripoli Exhibition Centre.<\/p>\n
The event, which hosts 155 Libyan and international companies and features five national pavilions \u2013 Italy, T\u00fcrkiye, India, Egypt and Tunisia \u2013 was opened in the presence of Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeiba and the four Ministers for the Economy, Tourism, Water Resources and Infrastructure. The event will run until 11 November, providing a valuable platform for networking and B2B contacts between leading industry players and Libyan companies.<\/p>\n
The Italian Ambassador to Tripoli, Gianluca Alberini, attended the opening ceremony and, together with Prime Minister Dbeiba, visited the Italian Pavilion, where he met with representatives of the exhibiting companies. Organised by the ITA Desk in collaboration with Finco and Confimi Edilizia, the Pavilion is the largest national collective presence at the event: a 230-square-metre space hosting 17 leading companies from across the entire supply chain of building materials, finishes and technologies.<\/p>\n
As part of the supporting events, the conference programme of the Design and Architecture Forum will feature architect Alessandro Colombo, Ambassador for Italian Design worldwide, who will deliver a talk dedicated to the most recent industry innovations and the Italian model for promoting manufacturing excellence on global markets.<\/p>\n
The presence in Tripoli follows on directly from the positive results achieved by the Italian delegation at Libya Build in Benghazi last April. Data for the first half of 2026 bears witness to the dynamism of bilateral relations: Italy firmly remains Libya\u2019s leading trading partner, both as its top supplier (17 per cent market share) and as its top customer (23.4 per cent). In the first half of the year, trade reached \u20ac5.7 billion (+43.4 per cent), driven by record growth in Italian exports to the country: +92.7 per cent, amounting to \u20ac1,697 million compared with \u20ac881 million in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n
The efforts of the Embassy of Italy in Tripoli and the ITA Desk are aimed at strengthening the presence of Italian companies at major local trade fairs and at stepping up the process of economic diversification in trade, involving new sectors in addition to the traditional energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 8 November, the 9th Libya Construction Expo \u2013 Tripoli\u2019s leading event dedicated to the construction and building industry \u2013 was opened at the Tripoli Exhibition Centre. The event, which hosts 155 Libyan and international companies and features five national pavilions \u2013 Italy, T\u00fcrkiye, India, Egypt and Tunisia \u2013 was opened in the presence of […]","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":211857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3,6],"class_list":["post-211867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211873,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211867\/revisions\/211873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}