Morocco
Morocco is a country in Northwest Africa with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Its port industry is dominated by the Tanger Med Port complex on the northern coast, just 45 km northwest of Tangier. Tanger Med has both a growing port which handled over 7 million TEU in 2021 and a highly developed industrial zone. The zone includes Tanger Automotive City which houses car manufacturers such as Renault.
Tanger Med deploys its plan against Covid-19 virus
News – Tanger Med deploys its plan against Covid-19 virus – April 2, 2020 In the current coronavirus epidemic, Tanger Med Port Authority’s...
Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) joins the International Port Community Systems Association
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) has announced that its has become a member of the...
Ecoslops publishes results for 2019
Ecoslops, the cleantech that brings oil into the circular economy, announces the results for the financial year-end – March 30, 2020 With a turnover of...
Port of Casablanca ensures continuity in handling vessels
Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) reported March 23, 2020, that the port of Casablanca has put in place, at this time of health crisis due to...
Tanger Med port continues activities
Port import and export activities continue in a normal manner at the Tanger Med port, with the strengthening of health control for professional drivers of...
Morocco: ANP: ports of Mohammedia, Agadir and Jorf Lasfar continue to provide their services
Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) – Ports of Mohammedia, Agadir and Jorf Lasfar continue to provide their services – March 26, 2020 Aware of the...
Moroccan ports see 11.3% increase in traffic in 2019
Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 15, 2020 – In 2019, Morocco ports handled a total of 153.1 million tonnes, up 11.3% on the previous year. A key...
COVID19: Cancelled passenger lines from the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa, Morocco
News – Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras) – March 12, 2020 The Algeciras-Tangier Med and...
CMA CGM announces Morocco investments
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 3, 2020 – Last month the French shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has reported the signing of two agreements...
Morocco auto industry receives EBRD boost
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 24, 2020 – Morocco’s automotive industry, a leading customer of Tanger Med port, has welcomed news that...
PortCastelló increases freight traffic with Morocco by 32.6% in 2019
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2020 – The port authorits has reported that PortCastelló moved 700,000 tons of merchandise with Morocco in...
Analysis – Morocco to invest heavily in ports’ infrastructure
Dakhla, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 12, 2020 – At the end of last year, Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water short-listed...
Tanger Med Port sees 38% increase in 2019 container traffic
Thanks to Tanger Med 2, the port complex reaches a new milestone with more than 4.8 million containers growing by +38%, and more than 65 million tons handled...
Hapag-Lloyd acquires stake in Moroccan terminal
News Release – Hapag-Lloyd AG – December 2, 2019 Hapag-Lloyd AG says that its purchase of a 10% interest in Container Terminal 3 (TC3) of the...
AlmerÃa port explores business opportunities in Nador
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 29, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de AlmerÃa (APA – Port Authority of AlmerÃa), Jesús...
Sealynx Automotive Morocco inaugurated new industrial unit in Tanger Automotive City
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 28, 2019 – Sealynx Automotive Morocco, part of the French GMD (Groupe Mécanique Découpage) group, has...
EUROKAI Group reports Q3 2019 traffic numbers for container terminals
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) November 14, 2019 – In the first three quarters of 2019, EUROKAI container terminals handled a total of 8.925 million...
Konecranes to deliver fleet of RTGs to Morocco
Konecranes has won an order from Tanger Alliance, Tangier for 16 Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes. The cranes will be delivered in batches with the last ones...
Sumitomo invests in Tanger Med to promote special economic zones
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 11, 2019 – Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has signed a business development agreement with Tanger Med...
Tanger Med takes step to digitalise agri-food export processes
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 8, 2019 – As part of the digitalisation of Tanger Med’s service offering through the implementation of...