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Tanger Med

Tanger Med is a Moroccan industrial port complex, located 45 km northeast of Tangier and opposite Tarifa in Spain (15 km north) on the Strait of Gibraltar. It is a port complex operated by the Tanger Med Port Authority. Part of the port is occupied by the Logistics Free Zone “ZFL” managed by the company Medhub. This includes Tanger Automotive City. Tanger Med achieved record throughput of more than 7 million TEU in 2021.

Nippon Express to open branch in Casablanca

Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 3, 2017 – Nippon Express, a global logistics company, is to open a branch office in the Moroccan port of...

Algeciras port to receive increased traffic from Tanger Med

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has participated in the logistics...

Tanger Med port hopes to join One Belt, One Road initiative

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port hopes to strengthen its cooperation with Chinese companies and join One...

Bombardier speeds up Casablanca-Tangier port rail link

Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Bombardier Transportation has reached a significant milestone in its rail modernisation projects...

Najlaa Diouri, CEO of Tanger Med Port Authority, to retire

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – After 30 years of service, Najlaa Diouri, CEO of Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA), is to retire. In...

TangerMed Freight introduced to meet order requirements

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – TangerMed and Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc (CGEM) have launched TangerMed...

Event – Tangier Logistics Days, October 5, 2017

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Organized by Tanger Med, the 3rd edition of Tangier Logistics Days will be held on Thursday October 5,...

Grandi Navi Veloci increases passenger traffic in Q3 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) is performing better than expected and saw the number of passengers increase by...

APM Terminals Tangier participates for third year in the GoGreen initiative

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – APM Terminals is participating for the third consecutive year in the GoGreen initiative, under the...

Maersk explores options to reduce ship congestion at Algeciras, Tanger Med ports

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Danish shipping giant Maersk is exploring options for the minimisation of the congestion of ships at the...

CMA CGM to launch Marseille-Tanger Med ro-ro service

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – After years of bilateral negotiations between France and Morocco, ministerial visits and abortive...

Morocco’s Tanger Med port container traffic rises 11% y/y in H1 2017

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port has said its container traffic in the first six months of 2017 rose by...

Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...

Barcelona port eyes MoS to Tanger Med

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The strategy followed in recent years by Barcelona port to promote the launching of short sea shipping...

APM Terminals Tangier handles its biggest container ship ever

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – APM Terminals Tangier, the largest and most modern north African port facility, has celebrated its ten...

Conductix-Wampfler to supply equipment to APM in Tangier

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 2017 – Hans Künz GmbH, a specialist supplier of container cranes, and Conductix-Wampfler, are to supply 32...

Morocco’s AML incorporates third ship into Gibraltar Strait service

Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Moroccan shipping company Africa Morocco Link (AML) has announced the incorporation of a third ship to the...

Japan’s JTEKT to build plant in Tangier

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The Japanese group JTEKT Corporation is to build its first plant in Africa and the Middle East in Tanger...

Spanish minister says every day of hourly dockworker strike costs €12 million

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna said the cost of every day of hourly stoppage of dockworkers...

France’s CMA CGM updates Euroaf3 service

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – French shipping company CMA CGM, in line with its intentions to further optimise its connections with Africa,...

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