Morocco’s Tangier Med Port said on Monday it maintained its position as the Mediterranean and Africa’s leading port, handling 11.1 million containers in 2025, up 8.4% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The growth was partly driven by the expansion of a terminal operated by APM Terminals, the port authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The port saw truck traffic grow 3.6% to 535,203 units, driven by higher exports of industrial products and agri-food goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passenger traffic totalled 3,220,422 in 2025, up 5.7%, while cars using the port to cross into or out of Morocco reached 895,341 vehicles in 2025, up 5%, it said, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number of vehicles exported through the port dropped 12% to 526,862, mostly produced by Renault and Stellantis plants in the country, the port authority said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morocco\u2019s automotive exports fell 1% last year to $9 billion but remained the country’s biggest export, according to official trade data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, the port handled a total of 161 million tons of cargo in 2025, up 13.3% from 2024, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, Morocco said it will start operating Nador West Med, its second Mediterranean deep sea port, in the fourth quarter of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The $5.6 billion facility will open with an annual capacity of 5 million containers, expandable to 12 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further south on the Atlantic coast, Morocco is building a $1 billion deepwater port in Dakhla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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