Last year the port of Tanger Med has enlivened 2.058.430 container (+68.4%)



Last year the port of Tanger Med has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 2.058.430 teu, with a progression of enlivened 68.4% regarding 1.222.000 teu in 2009. We remember that the Moroccan port of call has begun activity in July 2007 and that in the entire 2008 has enlivened 920,708 teu. Al fort increment of the traffic recorded in 2010 has contributed the progressive start of the activities in the two terminals of the port that - the Agence Spéciale Tanger Méditerranée (TMSA has announced) - have reached a rate use of their nominal ability pairs almost 70%.

In the 2010 containerized trade of import-export it has been pairs to 54.397 teu (+17.7%).

Last year the line services are gone up to 48 that converge on Tanger Med regarding the 35 of 2009. In the 2010 they have been the 1,841 portacontainer landed to the Moroccan port of call, of which 125 ships of the ability to beyond 8.000 teu.

Altogether last year the port has enlivened 23 million tons of goods (+103.5% on 2009), of which 90% constituted by goods in container.

The port of Tanger Med has officially inaugurated the traffic of the passengers on June 30, 2010. The transfer of this type of traffic from the port of the city of Tangeri to the new port of Tanger Med is started the month precedence and it has concluded on January 15, 2011 with the transfer of all the lines ferry and the fast lines towards Algeciras, Silks, Barcelona and Genoa.

In the 2010 port of Tanger Med it has enlivened 1.156.731 passengers, 384,667 private motors vehicle and 5,010 buses. The traffic ro-ro has been of 99.518 heavy vehicles (+188.0%).

It is while in existence in the port of Tanger Med the transfer, begun last November, of all the activities in the field of the goods conventional operated previously in the port of the city of Tangeri.

Last year the activity of the new Moroccan port of call has generated a volume of transactions mainly constituted by the canons of concession and the harbor dues on the ships and the goods pairs to altogether 682 million dirham (60,6 million euros), a double value regarding 2009.

For the 2011 TMSA it previews a meaningful increase of the traffic of the container, a next increase to 65% of the traffic of the passengers to about two million units and an increase of 50% of the traffic of the rotabili.