In the first nine months of this year, Moroccan ports handled a total of 155.2 million tonnes of goods, with an increase of +2.8% over the same period of 2022. The growth has been generated solely by the increase in volumes of cargo transhipped at national ports amounted to 73.4 million tonnes (+10.1%). Declining, On the other hand, both import and export cargoes, which have 49.3 million tonnes (-3.3%) and 25.4 million tonnes (-2.1%), and cabotage traffic which amounted to 5.8 million tonnes (-2.0%). In the in the first nine months of 2023, the volume of on-board supplies is 1.3 million tonnes (-12.0%).

The only port of Tanger Med, which handles almost all of the of cargo transhipments, handled a total of €91.8 million tonnes of goods, with an increase of +9.5% over the period January-September 2022. In Tanger Med, container traffic is amounted to 6.1 million TEUs, with an increase of +9.3%.

In the third quarter of 2023 alone, Moroccan ports handled 54.3 million tonnes of goods globally, with a increase of about +9% compared to the same period last year year. In Tanger Med, traffic amounted to 31.6 million tonnes (+13%), with only one containerised traffic being amounted to over 2.2 million TEUs (+13%).