Tanger Med port

Tanger Med Port exceeds 7 million TEU in 2021

The Moroccan Tanger Med Port complex has handled 7,173,870 TEU in 2021, achieving a year-on-year growth of 24% in container volumes during 2021.

This traffic is mainly driven by the optimisation of Tanger Med 2 Port, after the commissioning of Container Terminal 4 (TC4) in 2019 and Container Terminal 3 (TC3) in 2021.

“This result confirms the leadership of Tanger Med in the Mediterranean and Africa, and consolidates the position of this major hub for global maritime alliances led respectively by...

https://container-news.com/tanger-med-port-exceeds-7-million-teu-in-2021/

Tanger Alliance chooses Portchain’s tool for Moroccan terminal optimisation

Tanger Alliance which operates Container Terminal 3 (TC3) in Tanger Med Port, has selected the Berth Optimisation Engine of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions provider Portchain in order to optimise its quayside operations.

Particularly, as Portchain’s Berth Optimisation Engine digitises the planning process and enables upgraded resource allocation, it will help the Moroccan terminal that went live on 1 January enhance its berth planning and its customers monitor berth status in...

https://container-news.com/tanger-alliance-chooses-portchains-tool-for-moroccan-terminal-optimisation/

Hapag-Lloyd vessel completes first digital port call at Tanger Med

The world’s first digitally controlled port arrival has been achieved at the Port of Tanger Med on 25 June with the 4,612TEU container ship, Kobe Express, owned by Hapag-Lloyd and managed by Ango-Eastern Ship Management, docking safely and on time at the Moroccan port, using the Wärtsilä Navi-Port system.

Wärtsilä’s system is a digital platform that facilitates the exchange of real-time data between ships and their destination ports to allow accurate arrival times. The system exchanges required...

https://container-news.com/hapag-lloyd-vessel-completes-first-digital-port-call-at-tanger-med/

Tanger Med Port enjoys spike in box traffic

Tanger Med Port published its 2019 activity report, in which he marks the progress in every sector.

  • Container traffic up by + 38%

The spike in box volumes has boosted the ports. Following the operational start of Tanger Med 2 port, a total number of 4,801,713 TEUs were handled at the port complex during the year 2019, representing an exceptional progression of + 38% compared with the same period in 2018.

  • Vehicle traffic: The 500,000 threshold of new vehicles handled is reached

500,465 vehicles...

https://container-news.com/tanger-med-port-enjoys-spike-box-traffic/