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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.

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...

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...

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...

Portchain to supply Tanger Alliance with the Berth Optimisation Engine product

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 19, 2021 – Danish company Portchain, a provider of AI planning solutions maximize utilization and capacity for...

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...

Wärtsilä and Tanger Med enable first real-life digital port call for Hapag-Lloyd vessel

Within the framework of a partnership previously announced between Tanger Med Port Authority and Wärtsilä Voyage – which aims at digitalising...

Port of Motril reduces occupancy rate at terminals operated by Armas and FRS shipping companies

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) June 2, 2021 – Motril Port Authority has agreed to reduce the occupancy rate by 60% at the terminals operated by the Armas...

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...

In the last quarter of 2020, Eurokai’s port terminals handled 2.9 million containers (+ 7.2%)

The German group closed the year with a net loss of -30.6 million euros – April 29, 2021 After a long series of annual profits, in 2020 the German...

Wärtsilä and Tanger Med team up to co-develop next generation Port Management Information System

Wärtsilä has partnered with Tanger Med, the largest Mediterranean and African container port, to take a new step forward in global port efficiency by...

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...

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...

Gefco opens warehouse in Tanger Med Logistics Zone

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 25, 2021 – Gefco, the French transport and logistics company, has opened a new warehouse in Tanger Med...

Morocco Cruises Line considers Motril port service

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2021 – Representative of the Morocco Cruises Line shipping company, Mohamed Laiazic El-kadiri, has met with...

Tanger Med reports overall tonnage up 23% in 2020

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 26, 2021 – Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA) has reported that overall tonnage handled in 2020 was 81 million...

New Tanger Alliance terminal (TC3) at Tanger Med Port Complex now operational

Tanger Alliance, a subsidiary of Marsa Maroc, Contship Italia, Eurogate International and Hapag-Lloyd, received its first container vessel on January 1st, 2021...

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