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 continues activities
Port import and export activities continue in a normal manner at the Tanger Med port, with the strengthening of health control for professional drivers of...
Moroccan ports see 11.3% increase in traffic in 2019
Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 15, 2020 – In 2019, Morocco ports handled a total of 153.1 million tonnes, up 11.3% on the previous year. A key...
Maersk moves some services to Tanger Med from Málaga
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2020 – The Malaga Hoy has reported that Maersk Lines has decided to temporarily leave the port of Malaga for the...
Morocco auto industry receives EBRD boost
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 24, 2020 – Morocco’s automotive industry, a leading customer of Tanger Med port, has welcomed news that...
PortCastelló increases freight traffic with Morocco by 32.6% in 2019
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2020 – The port authorits has reported that PortCastelló moved 700,000 tons of merchandise with Morocco in...
Analysis – Morocco to invest heavily in ports’ infrastructure
Dakhla, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 12, 2020 – At the end of last year, Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water short-listed...
Tanger Med Port sees 38% increase in 2019 container traffic
Thanks to Tanger Med 2, the port complex reaches a new milestone with more than 4.8 million containers growing by +38%, and more than 65 million tons handled...
Sealynx Automotive Morocco inaugurated new industrial unit in Tanger Automotive City
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 28, 2019 – Sealynx Automotive Morocco, part of the French GMD (Groupe Mécanique Découpage) group, has...
Konecranes to deliver fleet of RTGs to Morocco
Konecranes has won an order from Tanger Alliance, Tangier for 16 Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes. The cranes will be delivered in batches with the last ones...
Sumitomo invests in Tanger Med to promote special economic zones
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 11, 2019 – Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has signed a business development agreement with Tanger Med...
Tanger Med takes step to digitalise agri-food export processes
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 8, 2019 – As part of the digitalisation of Tanger Med’s service offering through the implementation of...
Luxembourg economic mission to Morocco focuses on Tanger-Med port
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) September 30, 2019 – A Luxembourg economic mission to Morocco, led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the...
Japan’s Yazaki to open fourth plant in Morocco
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) September 4, 2019 – Yazaki Corporation, an automotive parts supplier, plans to open a new plant in Kenitra, Morocco, in...
Tanger Med strengthens its service offering for passengers by opening new ONOMO hotel
July 29, 2019 As part of the ongoing efforts to improve the comfort and travel conditions of passengers passing through the port, especially during the Marhaba...
Kalmar to upgrade Eurogate Tanger Med cranes to handle mega-sized container ships
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) August 27, 2019 – Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed an agreement with EUROGATE Tanger SA in Morocco to upgrade the...
Japan’s Kasai to set up automotive facility in Tanger Med
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) August 4, 2019 – Kasai Kogyo Co Ltd, a global Japanese automotive supplier, is to set up a logistics facility in Tanger...
Morocco port delegation visits India
Rabat, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 15, 2019 – From 25 to 27 June 2019, a delegation from Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency),...