Morocco's Economy
Tanger Med Port
How Morocco built Tanger Med, which opened in 2007 and became the Mediterranean's largest container port, turning northern Morocco into a logistics and industrial zone.
Tanger Med is a giant port near Tangier.
Opening
The port opened in 2007 and has expanded several times.
Scale
It became the largest container port in the Mediterranean by capacity.
Transhipment
Ships transfer containers here between routes linking Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Free zones
Nearby industrial free zones host car factories and suppliers.
Location
It sits on the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
Lesson
Ports plus industrial zones can create manufacturing clusters.
A container from China is unloaded at Tanger Med and loaded onto a smaller ship to West Africa.
Tanger Med relies on transhipment and location.
- Tanger Med opened in 2007.
- It's the Mediterranean's largest container port.
- It handles transhipment.
- Free zones host factories.
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