HIBAPRESS-RABAT-MEE The overall volume of commercial traffic handled by Moroccan ports, for the first half of 2024, reached 116.4 million tonnes compared to 101 million tonnes compared to the same period of the previous year, an increase of 15.3%. Domestic traffic recorded a volume of 60.8 million tonnes, recording an increase of 13%, while transshipment reached a volume of 55.6 million tonnes, an increase of 17.8% compared to the 1st. semester of the year 2023.
The distribution of traffic saw a predominance of transshipment activity, thus representing a share of 47.8% of overall traffic, followed by imports with 32.2%, exports with 16.3% and cabotage with 2.9 %.
Thus, the imports reached a volume of 37.5 million tonnes (+15.9%), the exports a volume of 18.9 million tonnes (+13.2%), the cabotage a volume of 3.4 million tonnes (-10.9%) and the bunkering of hydrocarbons a volume of 923.4 thousand tonnes (+10.6%), for the benefit of ships transiting the Strait of Gibraltar.
Regarding the main strategic traffic handled by Moroccan ports, the first half of 2024 saw an increase in the level of traffic of containers (5.6 million TEUs/+16%), imported hydrocarbons (6.3 million tonnes/+9.8%), cereals (5.4 million tonnes/+26.2%), phosphates and related products (16.1 million tonnes/+44.6%) of international road transport (287,749 units/+3.6%) and new cars (347,002 units/+8%), on the one hand, and the drop in traffic from coal (4.9 million tonnes/-8.4%), on the other hand.
For traffic passengersMoroccan ports saw 1.47 million passengers pass through at the end of June 2024, an increase of 7% compared to the same period of the previous year. As for the activity of cruise, it experienced a decrease of -23% compared to the first half of 2023, with a number of 96,450 cruise passengers.
Concerning the volume of landings of products coastal and artisanal maritime fishingfor the first half of 2024, it experienced a decrease of -10.2% to stand at 469,715 tonnes.
