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The Kingdom's ports recorded a positive development in the total port traffic, achieving a volume of 262.6 million tons in 2025, compared to 241.2 million tons in 2024, representing an increase of 8.9 percent.
A statement from the Ministry of Equipment and Water stated that national traffic (excluding ferry traffic) reached a total volume of approximately 130 million tons, an increase of 3.5 percent, while ferry traffic recorded a volume of 132.6 million tons, an increase of 14.7 percent compared to 2024.
The same source explained that ferry traffic accounted for a significant percentage, estimated at 50.5 percent of the total port traffic volume, followed by imports at 29.6 percent, exports at 15.7 percent, then coastal traffic at 3.6 percent, and finally the activity of supplying ships with fuel at 0.6 percent.
Regarding ferry traffic, the Tangier Med port complex confirmed its pivotal role as a major logistics platform on the Mediterranean, which is mainly attributed to the increase in container ferry traffic (128.7 million tons / plus 14.4 percent, or 10.3 million containers / plus 7.9 percent).
As for imports, the statement adds, they stabilized at 77.6 million tons during 2025, an increase of 2.8 percent, compared to 2024, indicating that imports of the most important routes developed as follows: fuels (13.4 million tons / plus 3.9 percent) and coal (10.4 million tons / plus 7.3 percent), containers (13.5 million tons / plus 14.6 percent), international road transport (6.9 million tons / plus 7 percent), and grains (10.1 million tons / minus 4.5 percent), and sulfur (6.7 million tons / minus 18.2 percent).
The volume of exports increased in 2025 by 1.4 percent, recording a total volume of 41.3 million tons. The exports of the most important routes have developed as follows: phosphate (6.8 million tons / plus 44 percent), containers (6.3 million tons / plus 10.4 percent), international road transport (6.5 million tons / plus 5.2 percent), sulfuric acid (1.5 million tons / minus 24.2 percent), phosphoric acid (2.6 million tons / minus 17.1 percent), and fertilizers (12 million tons / minus 0.9 percent).
Coastal traffic between Moroccan ports witnessed an increase of 24.3 percent compared to 2024, thus recording a total volume estimated at 9.3 million tons during 2025, which is mainly attributed to the increase in fuel coastal activity by 41 percent, and phosphoric acid by 318.5 percent compared to last year.
Regarding the activity of supplying ships with fuel at the Tangier Med port, it decreased by 4.2 percent compared to 2024, thus recording a traffic volume of 1.7 million tons.
Regarding the traffic of new vehicles, it achieved a total volume of 662,990 units for the year 2025, a decrease of 5.8 percent compared to 2024, where about 70 percent of these vehicles were exported.
As for passenger traffic, the Kingdom's ports recorded the crossing of 5,585,310 passengers during 2025, an increase of 5.4 percent compared to 2024. The ports of the Strait of Gibraltar, Tangier Med and Tangier City handled more than 84 percent of the total passenger traffic.
Regarding the activity of tourist cruises, Moroccan ports witnessed a continuous recovery during 2025, as the number of sea tourists reached 383,231 passengers, an increase of 41.7 percent compared to 2024.
On another level, the volume of coastal and traditional marine fishing products discharged in Moroccan ports decreased during 2025 by 15.2 percent, recording about 1.13 million tons.
Moroccan ports received 28,664 commercial ships during 2025, thus recording a slight decrease of 2.6 percent compared to 2024.
It is worth noting that the ports of Tangier Med, Jorf Lasfar and Casablanca handled a volume of 232 million tons during 2025, which is equivalent to 88 percent of the total traffic.
