Tanger-Med
Tanger Med (in Arabic: طنجة المتوسط ) is a Moroccan industrial port complex, located 45 km northeast of Tangier and opposite of Tarifa, Spain (15 km north) on the Strait of Gibraltar, with handling capacities of 9 million containers, one of the largest industrial ports in the world, and the largest port in Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. 7 million passengers, 700,000 trucks and the export of 1 million vehicles.
| Port of Tangier Med | |
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Aerial view of the port | |
| Location | |
| Country | Morocco |
| Coordinates | 35.874980°N 5.520710°W |
| UN/LOCODE | MAPTM |
| Details | |
| Operated by | Tanger Med Port Authority S.A. |
| General Manager | Mehdi Tazi Riffi |
| Statistics | |
| Website www.tmpa.ma | |
Tanger Med also consists of an industrial platform for 1100 companies representing an annual export business volume in 2020 of 8000 million EUR, operating in various sectors such as automotive, aeronautics, food processing, logistics and textiles.
The New York Times reports that Russia is using the Tanger Med port to bypass trade restrictions established after the start of their war on Ukraine.