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The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, presided on Wednesday 28 October 2026 a working session dedicated to the port and industrial complex Nador West Med, whose first terminal will soon be operational, and the extension of Tangier Med with the Tangier Med 3 project, announced the Royal Cabinet in a statement.
During the working session, King Mohammed VI stressed the need to benefit all the provinces and communities concerned and their populations from the economic and social benefits of these two projects, and to accelerate the training adapted to the new professions for the integration of young people.
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The chairman of the supervisory board of the Tangier Med Special Agency and Nador West Med, Fouad Brini presented to the Sovereign, the state of progress of the two projects, which aim to strengthen Morocco’s competitiveness in global value chains and stimulate regional development.
Nador West Med has mobilized 54 billion dirhams to finance its port infrastructure and industrial, logistics and energy platforms. This envelope includes 31 billion dirhams of public investment and 23 billion private investments.
Nador West Med’s first container terminal will have a capacity of 3.5 million containers and the second terminal is expected in April 2027, 1.8 million, for 8 billion dirhams of private investment. The energy component includes an oil terminal of 4 million cubic meters of storage and a liquefied natural gas terminal of 5 billion cubic meters per year.
The industrial zone already has one factory in operation and three others under construction. The complex is expected to generate 1,400 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect, with a railway line from Selouane, a highway from Guercif and a modernized road network.
For Tangier Med 3, the project forecasts 1,200 meters of wharfs and an additional capacity of 4.5 million containers per year, at a cost of about 8 billion dirhams. A concession was signed with Maersk-APM for the new terminal. Tangier Med’s capacity will be increased to 20 million equivalents twenty feet (TYP) per year, positioning it in the Top Ten of the world’s container ports. This terminal has required an investment of 8 billion dirhams carried by Tangier Med and will have a processing capacity of 4.5 million VPs per year, up to 5 million in the long term. It is scheduled to be put into service in mid-2031.
Morocco is thus continuing to deploy its port strategy with these two complementary projects called to strengthen its positioning in international maritime trade. By 2035, the challenge will also be to transform these infrastructures into industrial investments, jobs and concrete benefits for the territories.
In addition, the Nador West Med port is preparing to host its first commercial stops, opening a new stage in the constitution of an industrial-port, logistics and energy hub on the eastern Mediterranean facade.
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