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The Red Sea crisis has significantly impacted the global shipping industry with the Mediterranean ports experiencing various effects from the ongoing disruption.
Container News carried out a comparative analysis of the major Mediterranean ports of Tanger Med (Morocco), Piraeus (Greece), Port Said (Egypt) and Valencia (Spain), aiming to highlight the level of impact and resilience amid the continuing crisis.
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https://container-news.com/med-ports-amid-red-sea-crisis-the-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/
Svitzer, through Moroccan subsidiary Svitzer Tanger Med, has begun operating a new pilot boat out of the Port of Tanger Med on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast. Svitzer Oued Laou was manufactured by Irish builder Safehaven Marine in compliance to Bureau Veritas class rules. The boat measures 14.9 by...
Irish builder Safehaven Marine has completed construction of a pilot ordered by Boluda Tanger Med, a Morocco-based business unit of Spain’s Boluda Corporacion Maritima. ..
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Tanger Med’s Port complex handled 7,596,845 TEUs in 2022, a 6% increase over 2021. Port officials noted that over the last year, excellent production levels were attained, and the previous record of 700,000 TEUs handled per month was surpassed.
Meanwhile, Tanger Med Port Complex handled over 107 million tons in 2022, representing a 6% growth over 2021. This traffic is estimated to account for around 54% of total port tonnage handled in Morocco.
In terms of Ro-Ro traffic, the port handled 459,091...
https://container-news.com/tanger-med-sees-container-traffic-record-levels/
Since ancient times, the Mediterranean has been a very important area for transportation and trade, as it links three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. Container News has demonstrated a list of the five busiest container ports of the Mediterranean, a semi-enclosed sea bordered by over 20 countries.
Tip: Don’t expect to see a historic, traditional container port at the top of the ranking!
Below you can find the five top port players of the Mediterranean, based on 2021 container volumes:
https://container-news.com/top-5-the-busiest-container-ports-in-the-mediterranean/
Tanger Alliance at the TC3 terminal in Tanger Med in Morocco has received the remaining two of an eight Liebherr ship to shore container crane order, with the final crane entering service in April 2021 and bringing the operational capacity of the new terminal to over 1.5 million TEU per annum.
The cranes, which are the first Liebherr STS at Tanger Med, were erected at a remote site in Cadiz, Spain before being shipped two at a time to Morocco. The first cranes were commissioned in October 2020,...
https://container-news.com/tanger-meds-tc3-terminal-exceeds-1-5m-teu-capacity-with-new-cranes/
Irish builder Safehaven Marine recently handed over a new pilot boat to Svitzer for its operations at the Port of Tanger Med on the Strait of Gibraltar east of Tangier, ..
Svitzer will take delivery of a new pilot boat for operation in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med before the end of March. Svitzer Oued Martil is the third pilot boat built ..
Nippon Express France, S.A.S. (“NEF”), a subsidiary of Nippon Express Co., Ltd., has opened a Tanger Med Logistics Center in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med, and this Center began operations on Wednesday, June 26, as NEF’s second location in Morocco.
Situated in northern Morocco, Tanger Med Port is one of the largest container ports in Africa, linked to 186 ports in 77 countries, and the Tanger Free Zone (TFZ) adjacent to the port boasts about 800 tenant companies. Automobile and automotive...
https://container-news.com/nippon-express-opens-logistics-center-in-tanger-med-port/