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The Maersk group celebrates the start of the activity of the own second container terminal of Tanger Med
It has an ability to beyond 3,3 million teu
June 28, 2019
Announced in order yesterday, it is unknown well from who, and sent back today, and also in this case it is unknown who has decided it, the inauguration of second the great harbour area of the port of call of Tanger Med is celebrated this morning by shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk that, through branch terminalista Dutch APM Terminals, will manage the CT4, one of the two container terminal of Tanger Med 2.
No inauguration has been programmed in order yesterday and not even in order today from the Moroccan authorities and least of all from the Tanger Med Port Authority, that it administers the port, and not even they do not give the Marsa Maroc, the controlled Moroccan harbour society from the State that will operate the other container terminal (CT3) of the area of Tanger Med 2 through the branch Marsa International Tangier Terminals (MINTT), to which the Eurogate German and the Italian Contship Italy participate to graces to a recent joint venture agreement of(on 20 March 2019).
The Danish shipowning group, than with APM Terminals manages already a container terminal (the CT1) in the harbour area Tanger Med 1, has therefore broken the procrastinations and this morning has announced the opening of the APM Termnals MedPort Tangier, new terminal for containers for which they are invested 800 million dollars. With according to terminal the annual ability to traffic managed from APM Terminals in the Moroccan port of call salt very five million teu, of which beyond 3,3 million teu in the new CT4 and 1,4 million teu in the CT1 that is operating from July 2007(on 23 July 2007).
The Danish group has emphasized that new the CT4 allows with the Moroccan port of Tanger Med to reach a annual productive million ability total nine teu, figure that includes the ability to the Container Terminal 2 of the area harbour Tanger Med 1 that is managed by the consortium Eurogate Tanger that is participated to 50% from the Terminal Link of the French shipowning group CMA CGM and to 50% from the TangerMedGate, joint venture participated in its turn to 20% from the same Terminal Link, to 40% from Eurogate and 40% from Contship Italy.
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Announced in order yesterday, it is unknown well from who, and sent back today, and also in this case it is unknown who has decided it, the inauguration of second the great harbour area of the port of call of Tanger Med is celebrated this morning by shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk that, through branch terminalista Dutch APM Terminals, will manage the CT4, one of the two container terminal of Tanger Med 2.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
