Tangier-Med Port 2 continuedTerminals with containers:
These terminals, being able to receive and deal simultaneously up to four great ships are equipped with 50 porticoes (gantries) with wheel (RTG) and 16 porticoes (gantries) alongside the quay. Of a height of more than 80 meters, porticoes (gantries) alongside the quay, of a capacity of lifting of more than 50 tons, have an average productivity from 25 to 30 movements per hour(Achraf mansourStrait strategy for success,TNSA Magazine).
Temporary port and carter: Equipped with nine posts(post offices) alongside the quay, the temporary port(bearing) and the carter, who will enter service in 2010, is conceived to deal up to 700 000 trucks and 7 million passengers. With the railroad station situated in the surrounding wall of the harbor complex and the park reserved for trucks of a 25 hectare surface, the port allows to assure the treatment of the temporary traffic and the freight in the best conditions of fluidity, comfort and safety.
Terminal with Vehicles: Of a capacity allowing the treatment of a million vehicles a year, this terminal, a 20 hectare surface and endowed with two posts (post offices) alongside the quay being able to welcome two ships because quarryman 240 meters in length is intended for the activities of import, export and transshipment of new vehicles. The start is planned for year 2010.
Terminal Hydrocarbons: The terminal, dedicated to the handling and to the storage of the sophisticated products, will serve two main activities: the outages of ships passing in transit by the Strait of Gibraltar and the import, the coastal navigation or the transshipment of the refined products. With a 512 000 cubic meters storage capacity, this terminal can reach an annual traffic of 5 million tons. The activities of outages will start in 2009.
Terminal Bulks and Miscellaneous: The Bulk carrier and diverse terminal will be of use to the treatment of the traffics of and export of diverse goods mainly bound to industrial companies installed behind the port and will be equipped to receive the traffic of cereal. The starting up of its exploitation is scheduled for 2010.
Activity area: The concept of integration between harbor platform and industrial platform The economic pole of the area of the strait bases its competitiveness on the one hand on the deployment of an industrial platform, and on the other hand, on a logistic device articulated around a powerful harbor complex. The international experiment showed that the proposal for a value offered to the investors by such a territory is even stronger when these two platforms industrial and harbor are implemented in an integrated approach and by a unified operator. Tangier Free Zone, the industrial free zone of the complex Tangier Med Modern industrial park, managed according to the principle of one-stop shopping, Tangier Free Zone is the industrial free zone of the harbor complex Tangier Med to which it is attached since 2006 with the entry in its capital of the Special Agency Tangier the Mediterranean, which ensures some since management. Located near the international airport of Tangier and broadside by the motorway axis Marrakech-Casablanca-Reduction-Tangier, Tangier Free Zone is a free zone reserved for the companies whose activity is directed towards export. It includes/understands an industrial park under customs of 300 hectare and 65 hectares of logistic zone including a park T.I.R, a service station and a zone of commercial animation.
Center tertiary intermodal: CTI, the center of life of the port Located in the immediate proximity of the port containers, the port carrier and the logistic free zone, the long white building of the Intermodal Tertiary Center (450 m), will represent the vital organs of the Harbor Complex Tangier Med. The natural forces that are the wind and the sea are channeled by its massive envelope while being anchored in an adapted topography the port Tangier the Mediterranean. Adding up a surface of 33.000 m ², the CTI gathers the following components: offices of the administrative organizations such as customs, national security, gendarmerie, marine commercial, ministries, ONCF: offices of the entities of management and exploitation of the port (TMSA/TMPA, terminals, towing, piloting, conveyors, forwarding agents, agents trustees, ship-owners, experts maritime, insurances, managers of network); the center of life, where are located the reception, of spaces of restoration, a medical centre and services such as trade, banking agencies, station, translation… ; a railway station located under the building raised on pile .
Navigational challenges: Morocco's government is building a major container port at the Strait of Gibraltar for domestic and transshipment traffic. A concession to operate Phase II for 30 years was awarded to BEL's client after a competitive tender process. It was won by Comanav, the national line, with their partners Euro gate, MSC and CMA CGM. We were involved in assisting with the preparation of the bid document. The consortium faced a number of problems in presenting their case more effectively than the competition. To overcome this BEL prepared position papers and text for inclusion in the bid on : * an analysis of regional feeder, short sea and deep sea services * International Conventions and Agreements * the basis for establishment of, and modus operandi for, a Moroccan feeder shipping company * Traffic volumes assured through operations of consortium member Five shore cranes stand ready over the Strait of Gibraltar as a tug tows a huge block of cement out to sea to take its place in the construction of a new port. To the north, distant passenger boats and the jutting shoreline of southern Spain appear through the haze. The scene is calm for now but it is here in the northern tip of Morocco that the African state is investing much of its hopes to boost industry, create more than 100,000 jobs and diversify an economy overly dependent on the ups and downs of rain-fed agriculture.
Incidents adversely affecting the port activities recently: The activities of the port are used to be in process in 2012, actually one terminal of containers of the port is used by The Maersk company, the challenge faced referring to The port officer is that the weather during the winter time which make delays to enter the port and some ships prefer to head toward Gibraltar port instead of Tangier-Med port. Also This port is facing another challenge regarding the logistics hub and port strategy because of the port of Algeciras. This one is forming a cooperation agreement and at the same time a competition agreement because of the geographical position which provide some facilities to Cargo transporters, Bulk carrier and other ships to enter the other port during the swell. Positive activities enhancing the port for new expansions: In the summer of next year, an oil terminal is scheduled to open under the management of the ENOC group’s Horizon Terminals. With a storage capacity of 512,000 cu /m, it will serve for bunkering operations, transshipment of refined products and the distribution of refined products to the Moroccan market . The series will be completed, also next year, by a bulk terminal, designed to meet the raw materials needs of companies in the industrial zones in the port’s immediate hinterland, as well as to handle cereals traffic. All these developments, on which construction work is well advanced, enable the port to envisage annual traffic comprising 3m ten, 4m]5m tones of oil and oil products, 400,000- 500,000 new vehicles, 250,000-350,000 heavy good vehicles and 3.5m passengers by 2012- 2014. The idea is not simply to have a major international container transshipment facility but to have a port integrated with nearby industrial and logistics zones so as to boost the economy of the Tangiers region and, by extension, that of Morocco. Morocco is sometimes accused, nevertheless, of seeking to take business away from the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras, which lies just a few nautical miles away across the Gibraltar Strait and has until now pretty well had a monopoly of the strait container transshipment market.
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