The construction site is progressing rapidly. Located less than 500 kilometers from the Canary Islands, the future "Dakhla Atlantique" port embodies Morocco’s maritime ambitions. A titanic project that is redrawing the geopolitical map of the region and posing a direct threat to the economic and strategic interests of the Spanish archipelago.
Three years after the directives of King Mohammed VI calling for a powerful commercial fleet, the project still seems to be navigating blindly. Questioned on Tuesday in Parliament, Minister Abdessamad Kayouh confirmed the existence of a strategic study without revealing any roadmap.
Victim of its success, the first port in Africa and the Mediterranean, Tanger Med , is on the verge of saturation. Faced with an explosion of traffic that threatens to paralyze the platform as early as 2025, the port authorities are launching a race against time to expand the site, already attracting the covetousness of the world’s construction giants.
In collaboration with the Moroccan police and judicial authorities, the Spanish police intercepted 20 tons of hashish hidden in boxes of peppers transported in refrigerated trucks from Morocco to the port of Algeciras. In total, twenty people, belonging to two criminal networks, were arrested.
The Spanish authorities have managed to intercept a total of 117 off-road vehicles and sports cars stolen in Canada and destined for Morocco over the past six months.
The authorities at the Port Est in Reunion Island discovered 50 kilos of cannabis resin carefully hidden in the tires of new vehicles arriving from Morocco.
Moroccan authorities intercepted a cargo of hashish hidden in fish crates loaded onto a truck destined for the port of Algeciras at the port of Tanger Med.
With the arrival of Nador West Med, a real challenger to the ports of Algeciras and Valencia, Morocco will become a key player in the global automotive industry. This is a serious concern for Spain.
The ferry Cecilia Payne of the Baleària company coming from Ceuta hit the quay of the port of Algeciras on Sunday while trying to dock, causing visible damage to one side of the boat. No injuries were reported.
A major phosphoric acid leak occurred on Monday, October 20th at the port of Saint-Malo, as the ship transporting this product, arrived on Sunday from Morocco, was unloading its cargo.
A famous British media outlet places two Moroccan cruise ports in the ranking of the best and worst in the world.
After the acquisition of Trasmediterranea, Baleària has decided to suspend the line connecting the port of Motril to Tanger Med in Morocco, a line that has transported more than 1.2 million tons of goods since its launch in December 2022.