Twenty years ago it was still a dream, now the Moroccan port is the largest port infrastructure in the world. According to the classification carried out by the specialized journal Container management, Tangier Med is even the first in Africa and is in 45th place on the world rankings. The Moroccan trading port runs for Port Said in Egypt – 52nd – and the port of Durban in South Africa, 65th.
Of the total of 500 controlled ports, only two other African infrastructures join the World Top Container Ports. The Nigerian port of Lagos, which processes 1,500,000 VEP containers and the port of Mombasa in Kenya, for 1,189,000 VEP containers.
Container processing
The Moroccan port has a capacity of 3 million containers. In 2017 he even treated a volume of 3,312,409 VEP, which is 11% more than his capacity allows. A performance with which the port can win six places in the ranking this year. Another sign of good health: the number of containers handled in the first half of 2018: the two container terminals supported 1,668,566, an increase of 7% compared to the previous year, the same period.
Fruit results "strong commitment and synergy of all Tangier Med partners," said the direction of infrastructure in a statement. In particular, it cites the contribution of the APMT concession holders, who manage the container terminal 1, and Eurogate – which is part of the Eurogate-Countship / MSC / CMA CGM consortium – that owns Terminal 2.
Tangier Med 1 is located in a strategic location. The port was built 40 kilometers from Tangier in the Strait of Gibraltar, the second most popular sea route in the world. It is connected every week with 174 ports around the world, from 74 different countries. Every year, Tanger Med exports 1 million vehicles, passes 7 million passengers and 700,000 trucks. Construction, development and marketing were entrusted to the Tanger Mediterranean Special Agency (ASTM), a company belonging to the Kingdom of Morocco.
African leadership that Tangier Med should keep in the coming years. Because the opening of the first terminal (Terminal 3) Tanger Med 2, planned for 2019, will add an additional processing capacity of 1.4 million VEP containers. In the long term, the port complex will reach 9 million TEUs. A figure that makes it "a reference hub for global logistics flows".
West African potential
An unprecedented situation for an African port. Because the continent remains the penultimate zone of the world for container transport, ahead of Oceania, despite considerable potential. The growth of the continent, doubled to demographics, increases demand. Many large ports have therefore started modernizing works to satisfy new flows. Cotonou, Lomé, Pointe-Noire and Libreville started their renovation in 2011, 2016 and 2017. But "the most important projects in West Africa relate to the Ivorian and Ghanaian ports," says the Africa supplement of the review. The Marin.
In Abidjan, a new 1,5 million TEU deepwater terminal is planned for 2019. In Ghana, Maersk and the Bolloré Group have invested $ 1.5 billion to expand the capacity of the Tema port. By the end of 2019, the port would still be once 2 million TEUs can handle. In Nigeria two deep-water port projects are planned: the Lekki – with a capacity of 2.6 million TEUs – is also announced for 2019 and the port of Badagry, which is expected to gradually increase to 1 during the year. 8 million TEUs, with Maersk also managing the work.
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