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the Moroccan ports have closed the first trimester of 2017 with a traffic of 31,6 million tons of goods (+11.8%)
the import traffic is diminished of the -2,2%, that of export has grown of +23.5%
May 25, 2017
In the first trimester of the 2017 Moroccan ports they have enlivened a traffic of 31,6 million tons of goods, with an increment of +11.8% regarding 28,3 million tons in the first three months last year. The import traffic has been pairs to 13,5 million tons (- 2.2%), that of export to 8,5 million tons (+23.5%), the traffic of transfer enlivened in the port of Tanger Med have been pairs to 8,5 million tons (+31.8%) and the traffic of cabotage to 1,1 million tons (- 3.4%).
In the field of the national traffic, than it does not include the which reshipped volumes to Tanger Med, the solid bulk traffic has been pairs to 11,0 million tons (+5.9%), that of liquid bulk to 5,7 million tons (+7.9%), the containerized trade to 3,4 million tons (+9.8%) totaled with a container handling pairs to 343.089 teu (+2.8%), the rotabile to 1,9 million tons (+7.1%) and the other types of traffic (forest, iron and steel traffic, citruses and yields) 991 thousand tons (- 16.4%). The containerized trade of enlivened transfer to Tanger Med is piled to 8,4 million tons (+33.7%) and is realized with a handling of containers pairs to 730 thousand teu (+9.9%) to which an enlivened containerized trade of import-export joins in the Moroccan harbour port of call of 36 thousand teu (+16.0%) for a total of 766 thousand teu (+10.2%) enlivened from the port of Tanger Med in the first trimester of this year ( on 13 April 2017).
In the section of the passengers the traffic has been of 699 thousand people (- 8.2%), of which 66 thousand crocieristi (- 17%).
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