According to container the terminal of APM Terminals in the port of Tanger Med it will become operating at the beginning of 2019



Dutch APM Terminals, terminalista society of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, has announced the happened ufficializzazione of the concession agreement through which it will manage one of the two container terminal of the new harbour area Tanger Med 2 of the Moroccan port of Tanger Med. Draft of the container terminal TC3, that it will become operating at the beginning of 2019 and that are assigned in management for 30 years APM Terminals Tangier KNOW, joint venture participated to 90% from APM Terminals and 10% from Moroccan group AKWA.

APM Terminals Tangier, that 2005 are constituted in March, from the July 2007 - through a contract of concession of the duration 30-year-old with expiration in 2035 - work already the first container terminal of the Moroccan port in the area Tanger Med 1 that has a dock of 800 linear meters with annual ability to traffic of 1,8 million teu ( on November 23, 2004 and 23 July 2007). In the 2015 terminal it has enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 1,7 miilioni of teu.

The new TC3, whose line of dock will be able to be extended until two linear kilometers, will be called APM Terminals MedPort Tangier and will per year have an ability to total traffic pairs very 5,2 million teu. APM Terminals has specified that Maersk Line, the company that work the services of line of the Danish shipowning group, will be an important customer of the terminal. Initially APM Terminals will manage 1,600 linear meters of dock and terminalistiche areas for a total of 76 hectares, with a annual ability to traffic pairs to 4,2 million teu. The agreement includes an option in order to extend the perimeter of the terminal to others 400 linear meters of dock and to an ulterior area of 18 hectares, with an additional ability to traffic of a million teu. The Dutch company previews to invest 758 million euros in the first phase of the new ulterior terminal and 140 million euros in the second opzionata phase.

"The today's announcement - the managing director of APM Terminals has declared, Kim Fejfer - demonstrates to our fort engagement in investing in the traffics and the improvement of the supply chain in the market of the western Mediterranean. Morocco and its harbour arm, the Tangier Med Port Authority, have offered a great support to the vision of APM Terminals for the western Mediterranean. APM Terminals MedPort Tangier - it has emphasized Fejfer - will at the market bring important innovations and ability to the western Mediterranean on one of the most strategic marine routes of the world: the Strait of Gibraltar". The Dutch terminalista society has remembered that on the other side of the Strait work the container terminal APM Terminals Algeciras of the Spanish port of Algeciras, than last year it has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to beyond 3,5 million teu.

We remember that the container terminal TC2 of the harbour area Tanger Med 1, that has a dock of beyond 800 linear meters and a annual ability to traffic of 1,6 million teu, is managed by the Eurogate Tanger, society participated to 50% from the TangerMedGate (in its turn participated to 40% from the Eurogate German, to 40% from its Italian subsidiary Contship Italy and to 20% from the Terminal Link of the French shipowning group CMA CGM), to 30% from the same Terminal Link and to 20% from the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

Moreover the container terminal TC4 of the harbour area Tanger Med II, that it has one ability to traffic of beyond 2,2 million teu, is assigned in 2009 in concession for 30 years to the terminalista group Moroccan Marsa Maroc and has entered in service in according to trimester of 2014.