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.
WEC Lines sets up own brand in Morocco
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 3, 2018 – Dutch shipping company W.E.C. Lines BV has reaffirmed its presence in Morocco with the establishment of its...
Eurogate, Trasmediterránea, Baleària and Malaga port prepared for Operation Paso del Estrecho
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The Port of Malaga has prepared new infrastructure to service Operation Paso del Estrecho, which began on...
Naviera Armas plans Agadir port link on Cadiz and the Canary Islands service
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Maritime group Naviera Armas SA is interested in strengthening links between Moroccan...
Tanger Med seeks to expand facilities, limit congestion
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – In 2017, the port handled some 51 million tonnes of cargo. The Moroccan port offer on the Mediterranean...
Morocco launches fishing port, marina in Tangier
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 14, 2018 – One of the last parts of the redevelopment programme for the Tangier city port area has just come into...
Tangier port initiates new fishing port and marina
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – As part of the Tangier port area rehabilitation program, King Mohammed VI initiated a new fishing port...
Almería-Nador line relaunch can have positive impact on Melilla port
Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) May 21, 2018 – The president of Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla), Miguel Marín, has said that the...
Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, key partners for the port of Marseille-Fos
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 12, 2018 – For the Grand Port Maritime of Marseille (GPMM), the Maghreb is a leading partner with Algeria remaining...
Event: Logismed and Eurolog – Marrakech, Morocco, May 9-11, 2018
Marrakech, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – The 7th edition of Logismed will be jointly organized with the 24th edition of the International Logistics...
Tanger Med Port Authority to improve customs service
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – The Customs and Excise Administration (ADII) and Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA) have reached an...
South Korea’s Hands Corporation to open Tangiers plant
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 13, 2018 – South Korean wheel manufacturer, Hands Corporation, is to construct a factory worth MAD 4.33 billion...
Neptune Lines, UECC mull Vigo-Tangier line
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – Shipping companies are preparing to attract part of the significant flow of goods that is expected as of the end...
EUROGATE International reports container throughout figures for 2017
Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – As part of EUROGATE’s figures for the 2017 financial year, container throughput for EUROGATE...
Ranking: leading Mediterranean and Black Sea TEU ports for the period 2005-2017
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has published full statistics for TEU traffic at leading Mediterranean...
Morocco becomes Vigo port’s leading trade partner
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Vigo launched a Motorway of the Sea (MoS) to Morocco’s Tanger Med in April 2017. The statistics for...
Almería port seeks to strengthen ties with Morocco
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Almería port participated in the VII Spanish-Moroccan Logistics Conference held in Tangier where its...
Bergé signs cooperation agreement with Morocco ports agency
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – Spanish company Bergé Marítima S.L. and the National Ports Agency of Morocco (ANP) have signed a...