Morocco Launches Tanger-Med II Port, Boosting Global Maritime Connections

30 June 2019 – byBladi.net · 2 min read

For the inauguration of the vast project that is Tanger-Med II, King Mohammed VI was represented by the Crown Prince, Moulay El Hassan. Last Friday, June 28, the prince proceeded to launch the port operations of this platform, which is presented as a source of pride; it will succeed in connecting Morocco to 77 countries and 186 ports, thus helping to establish the Kingdom on the international maritime scene.

The advent of this gigantic infrastructure, which aims to establish itself as a leading port and the first capacity in the Mediterranean, consolidates the anchoring of the Kingdom of Morocco in the Euro-Mediterranean space and in its Maghreb and Arab environment. For Challenge, Tanger-Med II aims to "enhance its vocation as an exchange hub between Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and at the same time strengthen its central role as an active partner in international trade and well integrated into the global economy".

This is an infrastructure that imposes itself by its immense capacities. Indeed, the media specifies that it comprises "two new container terminals with an additional capacity of 6 million TEU containers". This "will further strengthen the position of the Tanger-Med Port Complex as a reference hub, in Africa and in the World, for logistics flows and international trade, now having a total capacity of more than 9 million containers".

The Chief Executive Officer of the AP Møller-Maersk group, the operator in charge of terminal operations, paid tribute to the vision of King Mohammed VI. He then confirmed the renewed confidence through his company’s commitment to invest nearly 10 billion dirhams in the new terminal of the Tanger Med II Port.