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• Morocco Reopens Ferry Routes for Vehicles as 4,000 Expatriates Return Home
  20 April 2022, by Prince

  About 4,000 travelers and 922 vehicles boarded the first boats authorized to transport passengers with vehicles from the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa to Tanger Med on Monday.
  For this first day of passenger traffic with vehicles to Tanger Med, the port of Algeciras made ten rotations compared to six for the port of Tarifa. These first ferries mainly transported passenger cars, vans and motorhomes, according to Europa Sur.
  To read: Ferry Service to Morocco Resumes for Vehicles, Boosting (…)

• Massive Morocco-Europe Migration Operation Resumes After Two-Year Hiatus
  15 June 2022, by Prince

  The Marhaba Operation, the largest migratory movement between Europe and Morocco, starts this Wednesday, June 15, after two years of cancellation. More than 15,000 Spanish security forces personnel have been mobilized for the occasion.
  Canceled in 2020 for health reasons and in 2021 due to the diplomatic crisis between Spain and Morocco, the Marhaba Operation resumes this Wednesday, June 15. The State Committee for Coordination and Management (CECOD) of this operation in Spain, met in (…)

• Moroccan Diaspora Return Operation Begins Slowly, Surge Expected in July
  19 June 2022, by Prince

  The Marhaba 2022 Operation started on June 15. For this first post-Covid edition, travelers are required to buy their tickets online before arriving at the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa, which account for 70% of passenger movements each year as part of this Operation. But for now, the influx is low.
  Last Thursday, the day after the launch of the Transit Operation, the influx was timid with only a few dozen cars. "This is the calm before the storm," assures Esther Mendoza, head of the (…)

• Croatian Swimmer Dana Levacic First Woman to Cross Gibraltar Strait in 2024
  20 June 2022, by Prince

  Croatian Dana Levacic is the first woman to cross the Strait of Gibraltar by swimming and without a wetsuit, between Tarifa (Cádiz) and the Moroccan coast, this year.
  The 26-year-old woman has become this Sunday the first woman to have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar by swimming this year, according to the Association of the Strait Crossing (ACNEG).
  See also: article 41837
  Dana Levacic left this morning from the island of Tarifa, and reached Point Cires, about a hundred meters from (…)

• Over 50,000 Moroccan Expats Return Home in First Week of Annual ’Marhaba’ Operation
  24 June 2022, by Prince

  The Marhaba Operation 2022, which started on June 15, recorded the passage of more than 50,000 Moroccans living abroad and 15,000 vehicles from Spanish ports to Morocco in one week.
  During these first seven days of the Marhaba Operation, a total of 51,458 Moroccans living abroad and 15,085 vehicles embarked from the seven Spanish ports selected for Morocco, according to data from the civil protection department of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.
  To read: Over 11,000 Moroccan (…)

• Moroccan Trio Makes History with Team Swim Across Gibraltar Strait
  30 June 2022, by Prince

  Three Moroccans, including two women, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar by swimming on Wednesday, thus becoming the first to take up this challenge as a team this year.
  The Moroccans Fakhita Drissi, 42, Samia Benchekroun Taibi, 37, and Hassan Baraka, 35, are the first to cross the Strait of Gibraltar as a team this year, said the Association of the Strait Crossing (ACNEG).
  The three Moroccans left from Tarifa (Cadiz) and reached Dalia, near the Moroccan coast, after 4 hours and 5 minutes (…)

• Record 11,000 Vehicles Cross to Spain in Marhaba Operation Weekend Surge
  5 July 2022, by Prince

  More than 11,000 vehicles arrived in the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa between Friday and Sunday, a record influx since the start of Operation Marhaba on June 15.
  On Friday, 2,276 vehicles were recorded in Algeciras and Tarifa, the two ports managed by the Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA). On Saturday, Algeciras recorded the arrival of about 400 vehicles per hour, creating traffic jams, explained Manuel Sánchez Alcázar, coordinator of Operation Marhaba at the port of (…)

• Strong Winds Halt Ferry Service Between Spain and Morocco in Strait of Gibraltar
  12 July 2022, by Sylvanus

  The port authority of the Bay of Algeciras announced on Tuesday the suspension of maritime traffic between the port of Tarifa (Spain) and that of Tanger ville until further notice. The strong winds blowing in the Strait of Gibraltar are the reason for this decision.
  The scheduled departures at least during the day of this Tuesday, July 12 are canceled, specified the port authority of the Bay of Algeciras. Passengers affected by these cancellations will have to go to the ports of Algeciras (…)

• Ferry Service Resumes Between Tangier and Tarifa After Wind-Related Suspension
  13 July 2022, by Sylvanus

  After a few hours of suspension due to the strong winds blowing over the Strait of Gibraltar on Tuesday, maritime traffic between the ports of Tanger Ville and Tarifa resumed this Wednesday, July 13, 2022.
  In a press release sent to Bladi.net, Jamil Ouazzani, Marketing and Strategic Intelligence Director at SGPTV (Tangier City Port Management Company) announced "the regular resumption this morning at 6:00 am of the ferry traffic between Tangier and Tarifa". This traffic was suspended on (…)

• Spanish Ports Prepare for Surge as Moroccan Diaspora Returns Home
  27 July 2022, by Prince

  The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) has assured that the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa (Cadiz) are ready to welcome Moroccans from Europe for the return phase of the Marhaba Operation, which starts on Friday.
  Since the start of the Operation on June 15, more than 705,000 Moroccans living abroad (MRE) and 154,000 vehicles have already transited through the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa, respectively 16% and 29% more than in the same period of 2019, the APBA said in a note. (…)