In one year, Balearia has strengthened the regular connection between the port of Motril and that of Tanger Med. During this period, the shipping company transported nearly 400,000 tons of goods on board 14,700 trucks.
Morocco has warned the shipping company Peregar, which transports waste and hazardous materials from Ceuta to the port of Tanger Med on a ship carrying food.
Malta fears the tax advantage of the Tanger Med port due to the introduction of an environmental tax in European Union (EU) countries starting in 2024. Major shipping companies may turn to the Moroccan port.
While sailing off the Moroccan coast, a sailboat was attacked several times by a pod of orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar. Faced with the fury of the cetaceans, the vessel sank near the entrance to the port of Tanger-Med.
The implementation of the European green tax, targeting the polluting emissions of ships in ports on the old continent, raises concerns about the future of Spanish ports. Shipping companies could abandon them to turn to Morocco.
The Directorate General of Customs of Morocco has received a complaint from a group of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) denouncing the inappropriate treatment of a supervisor and an agent at the port of Tanger Med.
Due to fierce competition with Moroccan ports, Spanish ports "risk losing 50% of their international container transshipment activity," or more than four million TEUs in the medium term, according to some experts.
After a difficult Sunday marked by interruptions due to Storm Bernard, maritime traffic has resumed its usual pace this Monday between Algeciras and Tangier in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Morocco has experienced fairly sustained economic growth since 2000, after the accession to the throne of King Mohammed VI. The kingdom is taking measures to attract foreign investment and become a major regional power.
The authorities in charge of health monitoring at the Tanger Med port are intensifying their control operations on ships coming from countries affected by the exceptional spread of bed bugs . France is specifically targeted.
The proliferation of bed bugs in France is of great concern to Morocco, which has just implemented a strict prevention system to avoid their "importation" into the kingdom through the ports.
The authorities of Tanger Med immediately activated the alert system following the detection of a possible presence of bed bugs on a ferry from Marseille.