Morocco has become a “commercial and port power” that is gaining momentum and a “pole of attraction” for international freight transport operators, wrote the specialized Spanish magazine “El Mercantil” on Thursday.
“Thanks to its rapidly developing port infrastructure, several companies in the sector have opened offices in Morocco to take advantage of Morocco’s assets and capture the flows of this strategic global hub of trade and logistics,” underlines the publication. in an article under the title “The emergence of Morocco as a commercial and port power attracts Spanish freight forwarders”.
According to El Mercantil, near-shoring and current geopolitics “significantly” favor Morocco, a market which arouses the interest of many international logistics operators, particularly Spanish.
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The strategic importance of the Tanger Med port today is well established and allows it to establish itself, without doubt, as the leading port in Africa and among the 20 largest container ports in the world, he said. observe.
For this, indicates the Spanish magazine, “more than 200 multinationals from the automobile sector have already established themselves in the Tangier Med free zone, not counting the textile and aeronautics sectors, adding that more than 1,300 companies are established there.
Nador West Med, a complex being developed following the same principles as Tanger Med, aims to complement the large Moroccan port in capturing transshipment flows, notes the magazine.
And to add that these activities are not limited to production and export, as is the case for automobiles and aerospace, but also position Morocco as a hub for African imports, particularly in the field of electronics.
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