New line for Morocco

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Work has begun on a dedicated freight railway between Casablanca and Kénitra in Morocco, in order to cope with anticipated high demand on t...

Tanger-Med traffic up 43%

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The Moroccan hub handled 1.246M TEU in 1H/2011, 43% up on the same period of 2010...

Royal Boskalis cleans up in Nigeria

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Dutch firm Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a series of port dredging and land reclamation contracts in Africa...

New forces arise in the Med

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After rapid growth over the past year, Morocco’s Tanger Méditerranée (Tanger Med) project remains on course to become a leading hub in t...

Work starts at Casablanca

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Construction work on the new US$215M third container terminal at Casablanca began in mid-October...

1M TEU for Tanger-Med

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APM Terminals (APMT) aims to handle 1M TEU this year at its terminal at the Tanger-Med port in Morocco, which opened in July last year and h...

Tangier terminal up and running

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APM Terminals and its local partner the Akwa Group have officially opened the first container terminal at the new Tanger-Mediterranean port ...

APM astride the Pillars of Hercules

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The consortium of APM Terminals (90 per cent) and Moroccan oil company AKWA Group (10 per cent) has been selected by Tangier Mediterranean S...

Tangier interest running high

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The proposed US$1 bill Tanger (Tangier) container port project is claimed to have attracted international “majors” for the first contain...

Tangier on again?

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The government of Morocco has relaunched the Tangier container hub port project....