LIBYA

LIBYA / ليبيا

Inauguration of the Zueitina Oil Terminal.
Illustrated map of northern Libya.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 23.04.1968.
Face value: 60 millieme.
Design: A. Rahuma.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 257.
- Scott No. 339.
- StampWorld No. 262.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 417.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 325.

Zueitina or Zuwetina (الزويتينة) Terminal is a large camp situated on an arid plain next to the town of the same name, in the Al Wahat District of the Cyrenaica, at the Eastern end of the Gulf of Sidra on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It was inaugurated in 1968 and its oil port is used to export crude oil.