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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.

CMA CGM to reshuffle its MEDWAX, EURAF 3 & WAZZAN services in West Africa

Friday, May 6, 2022 Striving for continuous improvement in our service offer to West Africa strategic markets and to better cope with current market...

Morocco announces new international automotive investments

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) March 25, 2022 – Morocco has announced the signing of eight investment agreements with five companies in the automotive...

Car parts maker Martur Fompak expand Tanger facility

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 1, 2022 – Turkey’s car part manufacturer, Martur Fompak, will soon open 3,500 m² extension to its plant...

Tanger Med has published an activity report for 2021

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 24, 2022 – Tanger Med has published an activity report for 2021 which details operations and achievements at...

Tanger Med handled 7.17 million TEU in 2021, up 24%

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The Tanger Med Port Authority has reported that the facility handled 7,173,870 TEUs in 2021, up a huge...

Morocco’s ports forecast pre-Covid cargo traffic in 2022

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – The Conseil d’Administration of the state-owned Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP), the...

Tanger Med and Tanger Med 2 to merge into one new legal entity

Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 19, 2021 – It has been agreed that Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA) will merge with and acquire Tanger Med 2...

Tanger Med Zones is developing a new commercial zone located between Tetouan and M’diq at Cabo Negro

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 23, 2021 – Tanger Med Zones, a subsidiary of the Tanger Med Group, has started developing a new commercial...

APM Terminals workers strike at the Port of Algeciras

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 22, 2021 – Workers at the APM Terminals facility in the port of Algeciras have started industrial action,...

Vertiv announces the launch of its million dollar hub in Tanger Med

Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has announced the launch of its million dollar hub in Tanger Med,...

Tanger Med sets productivity records

Container Terminal 4 (MedPort APM Terminals) at Tanger Med achieved two handling records last September – November 15, 2021 The first achievement of 215...

Tanger Med – Total digitization of the import and export port passage from November 15th

Tanger Med informs its customers and partners that, from now on, the formalities of the import and export port passage for containers and trucks activities...

Tanger Med is new member of chainPort

During the 7th edition of the “ChainPort annual meeting”, organized on November 03 and 04, 2021, Tanger Med was announced as a new permanent member of this...

EUROKAI container terminals see traffic up nearly +20% in first half

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 29, 2021 – EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA has published its Interim Group Management Report for the first half of...

Hapag-Lloyd inaugurates its own representation in Morocco

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 16, 2021 – The Germany shipping company Hapag-Lloyd today has opened its own offices in Morocco. The...

Tanger Med hosts a series of online briefing events in partnership with Financial Times’ FT Live.

Tanger Med Port Authority – September 6, 2021 During the last few months, Tanger Med hosted a series of online briefing events in...

Portchain to supply Tanger Alliance with the Berth Optimisation Engine product

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 19, 2021 – Danish company Portchain, a provider of AI planning solutions maximize utilization and capacity for...

Tanger Med to buy 35% stake in Marsa Maroc from the state

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 29, 2021 – Tanger Med, the operator of the same named port, is to acquire 35% of Marsa Maroc (Société...

Wärtsilä and Tanger Med enable first real-life digital port call for Hapag-Lloyd vessel

Within the framework of a partnership previously announced between Tanger Med Port Authority and Wärtsilä Voyage – which aims at digitalising...

Port of Motril reduces occupancy rate at terminals operated by Armas and FRS shipping companies

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) June 2, 2021 – Motril Port Authority has agreed to reduce the occupancy rate by 60% at the terminals operated by the Armas...

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