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The Ministry of Equipment and Water announced that the total traffic at Moroccan ports reached 196.8 million tons by the end of last September, compared to 177 million tons in the same period of 2024, representing an increase of 11.2 percent.
The ministry explained, in a statement on the activities of ports in Morocco until September 2025, that national traffic (excluding passengers) recorded a total volume of nearly 98.9 million tons, an increase of 7.1 percent, while passenger activity recorded a traffic volume of 97.9 million tons, an increase of 15.7 percent compared to the end of September 2024.
It added that passenger activity constituted a significant percentage of 49.7 percent of the total port traffic volume at the end of September 2025, followed by imports at 30.1 percent, exports at 15.9 percent, coastal shipping at 3.6 percent, and then the activity of supplying ships with fuel at 0.7 percent.
Imports recorded a volume of 59.3 million tons (4.8+ percent), exports a volume of approximately 31.3 million tons (7.6+ percent), and coastal shipping traffic a volume of 7 million tons (30+ percent), while the activity of supplying ships with fuel reached 1.35 million tons (0.8- percent), with the supply of ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Regarding the most important strategic traffic for Moroccan ports, the first nine months of 2025 saw an increase in container traffic (9.4 million 20-foot containers/9.8+ percent), imported fuels (10.3 million tons/5.6+ percent), phosphate and related products (25.8 million tons/2.8+ percent), international road transport (426,047 units/7.2+ percent), and coal (8.3 million tons/16+ percent) on the one hand, and a decrease in grain traffic (7.7 million tons/8.2- percent) and new vehicles (466,709 units/5.9- percent) on the other hand.
Regarding passenger traffic, the Kingdom's ports recorded 4,705,816 passengers at the end of September 2025, an increase of 3.7+ percent compared to the same period last year.
As for the flow of sea tourists, it saw a significant increase of 68.2+ percent compared to the same period in 2024, as Moroccan ports recorded the passage of 213,101 sea tourists.
On another level, the volume of coastal and traditional marine fishing products discharged in Moroccan ports decreased by 13- percent at the end of September 2025, recording 814,743 tons.
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