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 port hopes to join One Belt, One Road initiative
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port hopes to strengthen its cooperation with Chinese companies and join One...
Bombardier speeds up Casablanca-Tangier port rail link
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Bombardier Transportation has reached a significant milestone in its rail modernisation projects...
Najlaa Diouri, CEO of Tanger Med Port Authority, to retire
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – After 30 years of service, Najlaa Diouri, CEO of Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA), is to retire. In...
TangerMed Freight introduced to meet order requirements
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – TangerMed and Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc (CGEM) have launched TangerMed...
Event – Tangier Logistics Days, October 5, 2017
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Organized by Tanger Med, the 3rd edition of Tangier Logistics Days will be held on Thursday October 5,...
Grandi Navi Veloci increases passenger traffic in Q3 2017
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) is performing better than expected and saw the number of passengers increase by...
APM Terminals Tangier participates for third year in the GoGreen initiative
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – APM Terminals is participating for the third consecutive year in the GoGreen initiative, under the...
CMA CGM to launch Marseille-Tanger Med ro-ro service
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – After years of bilateral negotiations between France and Morocco, ministerial visits and abortive...
Morocco’s Tanger Med port container traffic rises 11% y/y in H1 2017
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port has said its container traffic in the first six months of 2017 rose by...
Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...
Barcelona port eyes MoS to Tanger Med
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The strategy followed in recent years by Barcelona port to promote the launching of short sea shipping...
APM Terminals Tangier handles its biggest container ship ever
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – APM Terminals Tangier, the largest and most modern north African port facility, has celebrated its ten...
Conductix-Wampfler to supply equipment to APM in Tangier
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 2017 – Hans Künz GmbH, a specialist supplier of container cranes, and Conductix-Wampfler, are to supply 32...
Morocco’s AML incorporates third ship into Gibraltar Strait service
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Moroccan shipping company Africa Morocco Link (AML) has announced the incorporation of a third ship to the...
Japan’s JTEKT to build plant in Tangier
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The Japanese group JTEKT Corporation is to build its first plant in Africa and the Middle East in Tanger...
Spanish minister says every day of hourly dockworker strike costs €12 million
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna said the cost of every day of hourly stoppage of dockworkers...
Motril to handle 10% more passengers in OPE 2017
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish government expects Motril port’s passenger traffic to be higher by 10% during this year’s...