Morocco Invests $1 Billion in Massive Dakhla Atlantic Port Project

With a total cost of 10.2 billion dirhams, this project under construction in the fishing village of N’tirift north of the city of [Dakhla] is in line with the development program of the southern provinces. Its start-up was effective this year. The new Dakhla Atlantique port will support the economic, social and industrial development of the region in all productive sectors (fishing, agriculture, mining, energy, tourism, trade, manufacturing).

In order to successfully carry out this project, a provisional directorate has been created to supervise the construction of this port. Its missions include monitoring the construction work of this infrastructure, ensuring the quality of the various works and establishing reports on their progress and their accounting status, managing the management of transactions concluded with companies, offices and laboratories.

The work to be carried out concerns the realization of protection works of a length of about 6,700 ml including a part at -17 m/zh (main and secondary dikes), berthing structures (commercial quays, service quay, supply and parking quays fishing, fishing landing quays, shipyard quay), as well as a maritime bridge connecting the island port to the land over 1,200 ml on sea depths up to -12 m/zh and an access road over about 6 km.

This new port will accommodate the fishing traffic associated with the new free zone as well as all the "commercial" traffic related to fishing (exports, inputs) and also to the hinterland of Dakhla. It will have container ship services with connections to the major major ports in the region: Casablanca, Tanger Med, Las Palmas, which will allow the regional economy to be supplied with industrial, energy and consumer goods.