About a month after the reopening of the borders between Morocco and Spain , some 116,000 passengers transited through the ports of Tanger, according to the government.
As part of the Marhaba operation starting in a few days, the FRS Iberia Maroc company will deploy numerous connections. In total, 27 daily rotations are planned from Tanger Ville, Tanger Med, Tarifa, Ceuta and Algeciras to connect the two shores of the strait.
Since the resumption of relations with Spain, Morocco has reiterated its wish to resume negotiations on the delimitation of maritime borders with the Canary Islands.
More than 10,000 passengers have traveled between Almería and Nador since the resumption of passenger maritime traffic on April 23, the date on which the first Wasa Express ferry of the shipping company Baleària left the port of Almeria for Nador with 53 passengers and 45 freight transport vehicles.
The employees of the 13 travel agencies located at the maritime station of the port of Algeciras plan to demonstrate this Friday to demand that the shipping companies allow them to continue selling tickets for at least one year.
Travel agencies in the port of Algeciras are forced to close due to the refusal of almost all shipping companies operating in the Strait of Gibraltar to provide them with tickets to sell.
The shipping company FRS wants to recruit to relaunch its activities, after the resumption of maritime traffic between the Spanish and Moroccan ports and in preparation for the Marhaba Operation 2022. About a hundred new jobs will be created in Algeciras.
The working group in charge of delimiting the territorial waters between Morocco and Spain will meet in the coming days, in accordance with the agreement reached during Pedro Sanchez’s visit to Rabat on April 7. The issue of the waters of the Sahara remains unresolved.
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured on Tuesday that the working group on the delimitation of maritime waters between Spain and Morocco will "once and for all" settle this issue so that this maritime border becomes a "common space" and not a "space of confrontation".
The high-altitude patrol vessel "Vigía" has left the Puntales naval base (Cádiz) to carry out permanent surveillance operations off the coast of Morocco.
Any traveler heading to Morocco, preferring maritime routes, will now have to present a vaccination pass or a PCR test of less than 72 hours.
At least 200 million euros have been lost by the port of Algeciras during the two years of inactivity with the ports of Tangier, the port authorities of the city have acknowledged.