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.
Tanger Med handles 8.61 mln TEUs in 2023, up +13.4%
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 30, 2024 – In 2023, Tanger Med Port handled 8,617,410 TEUs, up +13.4% on 2022. This is equivalent to 95% of...
Baleària signs cooperation agreement with Morocco
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2024 – Baleària has signed a cooperation agreement with the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) to...
Maersk diverts ME2 service around Cape of Good Hope, ports change
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) January 25, 2024 – Maersk has announced that its ME2 service will no longer transit the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Its...
Germany’s KOSTAL opens plant in Tanger Med
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 18, 2024 – Germany’s KOSTAL, a vehicle part manufacturer, has opened a plant in the Tanger Med...
Tanger Med Port planning a €650 million expansion
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA), a state-owned company in charge of the development of the...
China economy best connected to the global liner shipping network in Q3 2023
Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) December 26, 2023 – China was the economy best connected to the global liner shipping network in the third quarter of...
APM Tangier MedPort says phase 2 expansion is operational
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) December 18, 2023 – APM Terminals Tangier MedPort has announced that an expansion of more than a million TEU (Phase 2)...
Gaia Energy starts solar plant in Tanger Med industrial platform
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 22, 2023 – Gaia Energy has commissioned a 386.41 kW solar plant for FIT Voltaira Morocco, in Tanger Med...
SUARDIAZ, new Ro-Ro line linking Tanger Med & Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 19, 2023 – The SUARDIAZ Group has announced the launch of the new regular Ro-Ro line connecting the port of...
Tanger Med, Port Said added to new EU emissions regulation
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) October 30, 2023 – The transshipment ports of Tanger Med and Port Said have been added to the list of non-European Union...
Port of Trieste on trade mission to Morocco
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2023 – The Port of Trieste is on trade mission to Morocco, together with Camera di commercio Venezia Giulia e...
TOC Africa interviews Tanger Med managing director
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 22, 2023 – The TOC Africa event has just ended in Tanger Med and published an interview with Hassan Abkari,...
DFDS acquires FRS Iberia
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) September 18, 2023 – International shipper DFDS has acquired FRS Iberia from its parent company FRS, a Flensburg-based...
Qindao Sentury Tire to build plant in Tanger Med
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 7, 2023 – Chinese tire manufacturer Qindao Sentury Tire is to build its first car tire factory in a Tanger Med...
Indore International opens facility in Tanger Med Industrial Platform
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 25, 2023 – India’s Indore Composite Pvt Ltd, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced composite...
EUROGATE Tanger reports TEU traffic down in Q1 2023
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Tanger has reported TEU traffic of 583,262 TEU in the first quarter of 2023, down -3.6% on the...
World Bank publishes “The Container Port Performance Index 2022
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – The World Bank has published “The Container Port Performance Index 2022: A Comparable Assessment of...
EUROKAI sees TEU handling down over 16% in Q1 2023
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023 the container terminals in the EUROKAI Group saw an overall decline in...
APM Terminals MedPort Tangier receives new cranes
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 28, 2023 – APM Terminals MedPort Tangier in Morocco has received the first of four batches of new dual...
Maritima Peregar starts freight line between the ports of Malaga, Tanger Med
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) March 7, 2023 – The Maritima Peregar company has started a regular freight line between the ports of Malaga and Tanger Med....