The Nador West Med port in Morocco is expected to begin operations in the last quarter of this year, according to a statement from the Royal Palace on Wednesday. According to the same source, the cost of the port, which is the second deep-water port in the Mediterranean Sea, reached $5.6 billion, and it will include 5.4 kilometers of breakwaters, four kilometers of quays, and four power generation stations.
As part of the Kingdom’s effort to replicate the success of the Tangier Med port, the largest in the Mediterranean and Africa, the Royal Palace in Morocco announced on Wednesday that operations at the Nador West Med port, the second deep-water port in the Mediterranean, will begin in the last quarter of this year.
The Royal Palace added, following a meeting chaired by King Mohammed VI, that the port, which cost $5.6 billion, will open with an annual capacity of five million containers, expandable to 12 million containers.
It explained in a statement that the new port includes 5.4 kilometers of breakwaters, four kilometers of quays, and four power generation stations. The port has been designed to host Morocco’s first liquefied natural gas terminal with an annual capacity of five billion cubic meters, in addition to a fuel terminal.
According to the Royal Palace statement, the project also provides 700 hectares for industrial and logistics activity, which has already attracted private investments worth 20 billion dirhams.
