In most of the world - just around the Mediterranean.
They established trading stations rather than colonies, to promote their carry-trade activity.
Phoenicians
Overseas colonies were established by the Phoenicians in order to expand their basic economic specialty, which was gaining wealth and power by trading with other nations. One of its colonies became a world power in the name of Carthage.
answer is C.Crete
They were trading colonies as bases for their trading activity around the Mediterranean.
City-states Carthage in Tunisia and New Carthage in Spain. Trading stations around the Mediterranean littoral.
They established trading stations around the Mediterranean Sea littoral. Two of these grew into city-states - Carthage and New Carthage.
The answer is of course the afro-Phoenicians were the Carthaginians, who were Phoenicians who established their city and trading empire in north Africa (in today's Tunisia).
Tyre was a trading colony established by the Phoenicians. Ur was a city in Mesopotamia founded by the Sumerians.
The Phoenician established a colony at Carthage in Tunisia which became a prominent power in the western Mediterranean. They also established trading stations/colonies around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and in Babylon.
Phoenicians
Except for Carthage, they were trading colonies, operated by the trading city-states of Phoenicia, which were themselves independent of each other.