The French shipping company, La Méridionale, a subsidiary of Stef, the European leader in refrigerated logistics, has decided to cancel the Barcelona-Tangier link. From now on, it is focusing on Marseille-Tangier.
The Volcán de Tauce ship of the shipping company Balearia, which recently launched the regular connection between the port of Motril and the port of Tanger-Med in Morocco, has already transported about 500 trucks in just one month.
15 years later, the Agadir/Port-Vendres (Pyrénées-Orientales) maritime link has been relaunched, with the arrival on Monday of a CMA-CGM container ship carrying about fifty containers filled with fruits and vegetables, mainly tomatoes shipped for importers of the Saint-Charles International market in Perpignan.
Traditionally used for the transport of passengers, cars and vans, the maritime line between the ports of Motril and Al Hoceima will also serve for the transport of goods by roll-on/roll-off trucks.
The new maritime station of the port of Sète (owned by the Occitanie region) will not become a reality. This project presented in 2015 has been abandoned, particularly for economic reasons. Will the maritime links between Morocco and Sète be affected by this abandonment?
The ship "Ciudad de Valencia" of the shipping company Trasmediterránea, which covers the regular line between Cadiz and the Canary Islands, broke down again this week. Passengers had to wait for another ship from Morocco to board.
The shipping company La Méridionale has launched a new maritime link between the port of Barcelona and the ports of Tanger Med.
The port of Motril has just launched a maritime freight line with Al Hoceima. It is the first and only commercial route for freight traffic to the Moroccan city.
The shipping company Baleària celebrated this week 20 years of maritime links with Morocco. It organized an event in Tangier attended by more than 200 actors from the maritime and economic sectors.
The Balearia company has just launched a new maritime line between Almeria and Nador. The ferry "Moby Zaza" operates this route which started on Friday.
The Italian shipping company GNV has just put the ferry "Cristal" on the route between Almeria and the Moroccan port of Nador, thus increasing its ro-ro freight capacity to around 1,300 linear meters.
The shipping company GNV, which operates the connection between the port of Sète (France) and the Moroccan port of Nador, will now make a stopover in Almeria. The first one will take place on Monday.