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In 2019, Moroccan ports handled a record traffic of 153.1 million tonnes of goods (up 11.3%)
Passengers down -1.1%
March 12, 2020
The distribution of overall traffic remained dominance of imports, which account for 41% of the total, followed by traffic 31.3%, exports with 24% and exports with 24% and 3.6%.
In 2019, imports amounted to 62.9 million with a positive trend in coal imports (10 million tonnes, up 12.6%), cereals (7 million tonnes, 4.7%), sulphur (6.6 million tonnes, up 19.9%) and a bend (12.7 million tonnes, -2.2%).
As far as exports are concerned, last year they 36.8 million tonnes (-1.1%), including mainly raw phosphate (9.6 million tonnes, -13.9%), fertilizers (8.7 million tonnes, up 6%), phosphoric acid (3.9 million tonnes million tonnes, up 3.7%), containers (4.8 million tonnes, 1.2%) clinker (1.1 million tonnes, -28%).
The Ministry has announced that, transhipment, after the start of port operations in the port of Tanger Med 2 in June 2019 the Tanger Med port complex confirmed its position as an essential logistics platform in the Mediterranean basin with a new record of 65 million an increase of 24.7% compared to 2018.
New car traffic was 589,200 vehicles 72%, of which more than 72% of which was exported.
With regard to passenger traffic, in 2019 Moroccans saw 5.32 million passengers (-1.1%) pass through and the ports of the Strait -- Tanger Med and Tangier City -- has managed more than 83% of this flow of people.
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The distribution of overall traffic remained dominance of imports, which account for 41% of the total, followed by traffic 31.3%, exports with 24% and exports with 24% and 3.6%.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
