Update: Marsa Maroc to manage Nador’s East Container Terminal

Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – State-owned Marsa Maroc signed in June a contract to manage the East Container Terminal at Morocco’s Mediterranean Sea new deep-water transshipment port of Nador West Med (NWM). Marsa Maroc will invest around 200 million euro in the new terminal provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). After more than a decade of planning, progress is being made in the development of Morocco's newest port. The first phase of the terminal is scheduled to open in 2027. It will increase Morocco's role in the growing transhipment container trade and providing additional capacity for liquid and solid bulk cargo. According to the local L’Economist daily, Nador port will open at the beginning of 2025. This is going to be pre-opening activities and full-scale tests. Marsa Maroc to manage the East Container Terminal at Nador port North Africa's transshipment ports play a critical role in 2024. The closure of the Red Sea has led to a diversion of container ships that do not follow normal routes through the Suez Canal. Many carriers have chosen to transship containers from ports such as Tanger Med to the eastern Mediterranean. This has led to delays and congestion at Tanger Med and other ports due to high container volumes. Additionally, the new EU carbon taxes are also expected to lead to increased container volumes at Mediterranean transshipment ports as carriers seek to comply with “Fit for 55” emissions regulations and charges. The new terminal is less than 400 km from the Strait of Gibraltar, in Betoya Bay. With a 1,520-metre-long quay, it will have a draft of 18 m and 70 hectares of open land for container storage. It will have 15 state-of-the-art quayside gantry cranes (STS) and 45 state-of-the-art fleet gantry cranes (RTG). The terminal future capacity is 3.4 million TEUs. The next development stages envisage 1,200-metre-long additional quay which will increase its capacity by another 2 million TEUs. Plans include an oil terminal for 25 million tonnes per year and a coal terminal for 7 million tonnes. Up to 3 million tonnes of miscellaneous cargo will also be handled. Marsa Maroc is a multi-traffic, multi-site port operator occupying a leading position in port operations in Morocco. It has a presence in 24 terminals in Morocco’s 10 commercial ports. This includes the third terminal at Morocco’s giant Tanger Med, another leading transshipment port. Marsa Maroc keeps saying that in just over three years, it has developed the container transshipment trade in Terminal Conteneurs 3 (TC3) in Tanger Med. However, there it is in partnership with Hapag-Lloyd, Eurogate International and Contship Italia. TC3 reached its full capacity of 1.5 million TEUs three years after it was commissioned. The port of Nador is east of Cap des Trois Fourches, about 70 km from the Algerian border. It is at the northwestern end of Sebkha Bou Areg (Mar Chica) just south of the port of Melilla. More Ports Europe news about the Port of Nador Copyright (C) Ports Europe. All Rights Reserved. 2024.

Update: Marsa Maroc to manage Nador’s East Container Terminal

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