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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.

Maersk’s Morocco Bridge to Europe

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 10, 2024 – The new Morocco Bridge is a multimodal service that connects Morocco to Spain and the rest of Europe....

Is COSCO interested in operating Port of Nador, Morocco?

Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – Reports from Spain suggest that the Moroccan government has approached China’s COSCO to manage its...

Update: Morocco 2023 port performance. Tanger Med shines

Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 3, 2024 – Ports managed by state-owned Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP), the regulatory body of the Moroccan port...

Ports of Gioia Tauro and Tanger Med talk cooperation

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – The honorary consul of the Kingdom of Morocco for the Calabria Region, Domenico Naccari, has met...

Cavotec signs agreement with APM Terminals, Tanger Med

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – Cavotec has signed a two-year service agreement with APM Terminals at the Port of Tanger Med....

Repsol, Ravago inaugurate new plant in Tanger Automotive City

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 9, 2024 – Spanish energy company Repsol and Belgian plastics giant Ravago have inaugurated a new compounding...

Algeria suffers from Moroccan port ban

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Last month, Algeria announced it had banned goods entering the country which were transshipped via a...

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...

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,...

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