PORT OF NADOR WEST MED MARSA MAROC TO OPERATE THE EAST CONTAINER TERMINAL

Marsa Maroc and Nador West Med have signed the concession agreement for the Nador West Med East Container Terminal, with a capacity of 3.4 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEU). The Supervisory Board meeting of Marsa Maroc, on June 25th, 2024, authorized the signing of the concession documents for the East Container Terminal at the Port of Nador West Med (NWM), for a period of 25 years.

The new terminal, with 1,520 linear meters of quay, a depth of 18 meters, and 70 hectares of open space, will handle 3.4 million TEU at full capacity, and will be equipped with 15 state-of-the-art quay gantry cranes (STS) and 45 state-of-the-art yard gantry cranes (RTG). Marsa Maroc will invest 200 million euros to build the first phase of the terminal, commissioning is scheduled in 2027. Building on its experience in container transshipment since January 2021 at Tanger Med Port Complex, where it operates Container Terminal 3 (TC3) in partnership with Hapag Lloyd, Eurogate International GmbH, and Contship Italia S.p.A., the operator intends to reinforce its leadership in the national and Mediterranean market. TC3 reached its full capacity of 1.5 million TEU just three years after commissioning. With this new terminal, Marsa Maroc will increase its container handling capacity to 6.5 million TEUs, including almost 5 million TEUs for transshipment.