Marsa Maroc to operate western terminal at Nador West Med port

Marsa Maroc, Morocco’s leading port operator, said it will be operating the  western terminal at Nador West Med port for a concession period of 25 years.

The terminal will be the second to be operated by Marsa Maroc after the eastern terminal concession it won in June last year.

The first phase investment in the eastern terminal will require 280 million euros, the company said.

Terminal will feature 1,440 linear meters of quay with a depth of 18 meters, and will be divided into 2 sections: a first section of 900 meters dedicated to the container activity and a second of 540 meters for general cargo handling, it said in a statement.

This new terminal will cover an area of 60 hectares and will ultimately be equipped with 8 ship-to-shore cranes (STS), 24 rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG) and 4 latest-generation mobile cranes, Marsa Maroc said.

Marsa Maroc, currently has 3 containers’ transhipment terminals on the Mediterranean coast in its concession portfolio, thus strengthening its positioning in this market.

With the Western Terminal, Marsa Maroc’s containerized traffic processing capacity will be increased to 9 million TEUs, including nearly 7 million TEUs dedicated to containers’ transshipment.