Encouraged by the success of the Tangier Med hub, which allowed the Kingdom of Morocco to propel itself on the international scene of the regular line, the country has designed another port project by imagining the development of Nador West Med. This future deep-water port, also located on the Mediterranean coast of the country, will be housed in Betoya Bay.
The development works of the new Moroccan port of Nador West Med were to start in 2016 to last no less than sixty months. But environmental and seismic studies have delayed their start a few months. The future port will include a terminal for hydrocarbons with three oil stations (20 meters deep), a coal terminal with a platform of 360 meters and a depth of 20 meters. Facilities to which will be added a general cargo terminal, a ro-ro station and a service dock. There is also a container terminal with a 1,520-meter platform (with a draft of 18 meters), a 76-hectare platform with the possibility of adding a 1,200-meter platform to operate the containers.
Target: 25 Mt of hydrocarbons, 7 Mt of coal, 3 M TEU
Nador will treat 25 million tons of hydrocarbons, 7 million tons of coal and 3 million of various goods. In the container sector, the target is 3 million TEU, with the possibility of an additional 2 million increase.
The project will further strengthen Morocco's presence on international shipping routes. The country has already risen from 78th in the world in 2004 to 33rd place in 2008, ranking 17th in 2014 following the completion of Tangier Med.
A consortium, consisting of the Moroccan group SGTM, the Luxembourg group JDN and the Turkish group STFA for 7.61 billion dirhams (800 million USD), won the international tender for construction of Nador West Med.
According to the project's designers, the port complex will eventually include "a large deepwater port, an energy hub, a port platform with significant capacity for container transhipment, import-export and bulk processing and a integrated industrial platform open to domestic and foreign investors ".
Geographically, "Betoya Bay is a prime location for large-scale port development," it adds. A site that offers "multiple benefits, favorable exposure to swells, favorable topographic and bathymetric conditions for construction, a privileged location on the sea routes, between the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar, and the availability of land, both public and private ".
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