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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 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.

Morocco Cruises Line considers Motril port service

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) 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...

Tanger Alliance signs long-term credit facikity of €133 million

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 12, 2021 – Tanger Alliance, a joint venture of Marsa Maroc, Contship Italia, Eurogate International and Hapag...

Tanger Alliance receives first vessel

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 29, 2020 – Tanger Alliance has received its first vessel in container terminal three (TC3). Tanger Alliance, a...

Tanger Med forecasts container handling record at year-end

Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 28, 2020 – By the end of this year, the Tanger Med Port Complex is forecasting container activity (TEU) to exceed...

Contship Italia Group releases new business plan targets 2021-2024

Contship Italia Group, the Italian container terminal and intermodal branch of Eurokai, today unveils a raft of new initiatives aimed at enhancing its national...

Tanger Med: 35th container port in the world in 2019

News Release – Tanger Med Port Authority – August 31, 2020 Tanger Med: 35th container port in the world in 2019 Significant moving up of 11...

Tanger Med organizes “Get Together Meeting” on with members of African Port Task Force

Tanger Med organized a “Get Together Meeting” on July 23, 2020, with members of the African Port Task Force. This digital meeting was attended by...

Kuenz delivers all 42 cranes to APM Terminals, Tanger Med

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 10, 2020 – Kuenz GmbH, the Austria-based crane manufacturer, has delivered a total of 42 cranes to APM Terminals,...

Tanger Med Special Agency to set up Fnideq, a new free zone

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 30, 2020 – Tanger Med Special Agency (TMSA), manager of Tanger Med Port, is to establish Zone d’Activité...

Morocco begins construction of economic zone near Ceuta

Rabat, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 10, 2020 – Rabat has reportedly begun building an economic zone in Fnideq, a city near the border with the Spanish...

Tanger Med partners with initiative of world ports to guarantee continuity of international supply chains

News – Tanger Med partners with the initiative of the largest world ports to guarantee the continuity of international supply chains – May 29, 2020...

Tanger Med continues port activities – Covid-19

News COVID 19 – Tanger Med continues its port activities – May 8, 2020 All of the Tanger Med port’s services are operational, including...

Tanger Med and Algeciras ports continue activities despite Covid-19 crisis

Collaboration between port authorities of Tanger Med and Algeciras: continuity of import-export operations across the strait – May 7, 2020 In the current...

Tanger Med, Algeciras Bay ports continue import/export operations

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 13, 2020 – Despite the global pandemic, the two port authorities of Tanger Med and the Bay of Algeciras, continue...

Top European container ports in the Mediterranean have same ranking in 2019 led by Piraeus

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) April 28, 2020 – For a second year in a row in 2019, Piraeus is the largest European container port in the Mediterranean Sea...

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