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 – Total digitization of the import and export port passage from November 15th
Tanger Med informs its customers and partners that, from now on, the formalities of the import and export port passage for containers and trucks activities...
Tanger Med is new member of chainPort
During the 7th edition of the “ChainPort annual meeting”, organized on November 03 and 04, 2021, Tanger Med was announced as a new permanent member of this...
U.S. Chargé D’Affaires David Greene visits Tangier
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 15, 2021 – U.S. Chargé D’Affaires David Greene has visited Tangier and the Tanger Med logistics complex. The...
Port of Casablanca receives environmental management standard ISO 14001
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 6, 2021 – The port of Casablanca has obtained environmental management standard ISO 14001 (2015 version)...
EUROKAI container terminals see traffic up nearly +20% in first half
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 29, 2021 – EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA has published its Interim Group Management Report for the first half of...
Hapag-Lloyd inaugurates its own representation in Morocco
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 16, 2021 – The Germany shipping company Hapag-Lloyd today has opened its own offices in Morocco. The...
EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA – Interim report for the first quarter 2021
September 10, 2021 – EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA reported the following information: In the first quarter of the business year 2021 the container...
Tanger Med hosts a series of online briefing events in partnership with Financial Times’ FT Live.
Tanger Med Port Authority – September 6, 2021 During the last few months, Tanger Med hosted a series of online briefing events in...
Port operator Marsa Maroc sees cargo traffic up 22% in Q1 2021
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 15, 2021 – Total traffic handled by Marsa Maroc and its subsidiaries as at June 30th, 2021, amounted to 23...
Tanger Med to buy 35% stake in Marsa Maroc from the state
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 29, 2021 – Tanger Med, the operator of the same named port, is to acquire 35% of Marsa Maroc (Société...
Morocco excludes Spanish ports from annual Operation Paso Del Estrecho
Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) June 9, 2021 – Last week, the Moroccan government announced that Spanish ports would not be included the annual Operation...
EUROKAI Group sees container handling volumes up 17.3% in Q1 2021
Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) May 19, 2021 – In the first quarter of 2021 the container terminals in the EUROKAI Group saw a rise in handling volumes of...
Tanger Alliance in Tanger Med receives eight new Liebherr cranes
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 18, 2021 – The Tanger Alliance at the TC3 terminal in Tanger Med has received the final two of eight Liebherr ship...
Morocco awards construction contract for Dakhla port, Western Sahara
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 7, 2021 – The Ministry of Transport has awarded a contract to build a $1 billion Atlantic port in Dakhla, in the...
Morocco considers FSRU vessel on Atlantic or Mediterranean coast
Nador, Morocco, (Ports Europe) April 26, 2021 – Local sources are reporting that the Moroccan government is considering establishing a floating storage...
Moroccan ports see traffic down 2.3% in Q1 2021
The traffic transiting through the ports managed by the ANP has reached at the end of March 2021 a global volume of 22.9 million tonnes, marking a year-on-year...
DACHSER Morocco opens new warehouse in Tanger Med
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 9, 2021 – DACHSER Morocco has announced that it has opened a new warehouse facility in Tanger Med port. Situated...
Telephone conversation between Slovenian and Moroccan foreign ministers
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar today held a telephone conversation with Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan...
APM Terminals MedPort Tangier commences second phase of development
Following a total investment of 800 million USD, operations at APM Terminals MedPort Tangier commenced in 2019. It now celebrates its next major development...
Port of Algeciras presents Hercules project
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2021 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of...