- Tanger-med
Tanger-Med is a cargo port located about 40 km from
Tangier ,Morocco .It is the largest port on the Mediterranean and in Africa.Overview
It went into service in July 2007 [ [http://www.tmsa.ma/en/port_tanger_med/presentation.php TMSA - Tanger Mediterranean Special Agency ] ] . Its initial capacity is 3.5 million shipment containers. [ [http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2007/05/18/newsbrief-04 Tangier-Med port to be operational in July (Magharebia.com) ] ]
The port is expected to reach full capacity by 2015, and to operate 8 million containers, 7 million passengers, 700,000 trucks, 2 million vehicles, and 10 million MT of oil products. [ [http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/economy/import-export_activi/view Maghreb Arabe Presse: Import-export activities kick off in Tanger-Med port, TMSA ] ]
See also
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List of deep water ports External links
* [http://www.tmsa.ma/ Official website]
References
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