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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.

Decathlon unveils largest logistics centre in Morocco in Tangier

Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The last stage of the Decathlon logistics platform, with an investment of more than MAD 100 million ,...

Nippon Express to open branch in Casablanca

Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 3, 2017 – Nippon Express, a global logistics company, is to open a branch office in the Moroccan port of...

Algeciras port to receive increased traffic from Tanger Med

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has participated in the logistics...

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 (PortSEurope) October 11, 2017 – TangerMed and Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc (CGEM) have launched TangerMed...

Grandi Navi Veloci increases passenger traffic in Q3 2017

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) September 29, 2017 – APM Terminals is participating for the third consecutive year in the GoGreen initiative, under the...

Maersk explores options to reduce ship congestion at Algeciras, Tanger Med ports

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) September 14, 2017 – Danish shipping giant Maersk is exploring options for the minimisation of the congestion of ships at the...

CMA CGM to launch Marseille-Tanger Med ro-ro service

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) September 8, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port has said its container traffic in the first six months of 2017 rose by 11%...

Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) July 2017 – Hans Künz GmbH, a specialist supplier of container cranes, and Conductix-Wampfler, are to supply 32 automatic...

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...

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