The French shipping group CMA CGM has joined forces to the Moroccan Marsa Maroc for the management of part of the Container East Terminal of the new port of Nador West Med which has been Granted in concession to the African Port Group ( of 26 June 2024). The French and Moroccan groups have Agreement to establish a joint venture respectively 49% and 51% who will operate for the duration of 25 years about half of the Nador West Med container terminal, that is, an area of 35 hectares with a quay of 750 linear meters with depths of -18 meters. The investment expected to amount to a total of 280 million dollars and the goal is to reach an annual volume of traffic of containers equal to 1.2 million TEUs. It is expected that the terminal It will be equipped with a total of eight ship-to-shore cranes compared to the six currently in service and with 24 gantry cranes electric compared to the current 15.

CMA CGM recalled that it is already present in the market port area with participation in the management of the Eurogate Tanger container terminal of the port of Tanger Med through 40% of the capital held by the company terminal operator Terminal Link, which is owned by CMA CGM and by the Chinese CMPort, and a container terminal and a multipurpose terminal in the port of Casablanca through the Somaport, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Terminal Link.

The French group highlighted that, in addition to the position of the port of Nador in the Gibraltar region, the port of call is also set to become a primary hub for the bunkering of new synthetic fuels that will power also the CMA CGM's fleet of dual-fuel vessels.