- Said Drissi El Bouzaidi, Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco, has taken an interest in the functioning of the Valencian precinct with the aim of extending the possibilities of collaboration
València, 19 January 2024.- Said Drissi El Bouzaidi, Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco, has held a working meeting with Mar Chao, president of the Port Authority of València (PAV). During the meeting, Chao presented to the Consul General the value proposition of Valenciaport and the competitive advantages of the Valencian precinct as a hub port for the main ports of Morocco, among which she highlighted its high connectivity and its environmental policies.
The aim of this meeting was to follow up on the roadmap – established in 2019 at the Spanish-Moroccan Business Meeting of the Maritime, Transport and Logistics Sector, held in Tangiers – which has enabled the promotion of maritime traffic between the PAV and this country. Likewise, new possibilities for collaboration have been detected to strengthen Valenciaport’s strategy as a bridge between Africa and Europe. The intense contact between Valenciaport and the Maghreb country makes Valencia a significant commercial enclave for Morocco.
In fact, Morocco is one of the top ten countries in terms of trade relations with Valenciaport, with an annual average of around two million tonnes channelled. In this sense, the port of Valencia maintains an important network of connections with the Moroccan ports, which is reflected in the fact that it is a destination for the routes of the large ships with weekly connections. Specifically with the ports of Agadir, Casablanca, Jorf Lasfar, Mohammedia, Nador, Tangier and Tangier Med.
Traffic with Morocco
In the last year, Valenciaport has channelled almost two million tonnes of goods, the main port of origin/destination being Casablanca. These figures make Morocco the ninth country in terms of freight traffic. As far as container traffic is concerned, last year the Port of València was the gateway for 120,000 TEUs.
The main goods leaving the Valencian docks for the Moroccan country were chemical products, construction materials, foodstuffs, iron and steel products, fertilisers, paper and pulp, among others.
In the last year, Valenciaport has been visited by various institutional representatives from European, African and Latin American countries to get to know the infrastructures and services of the leading Spanish port in the Mediterranean. A hub port where goods and containers are managed with more than 1000 countries all over the world and which is carrying out strategic actions in the fight against climate change or digitalisation.
Caption: Mar Chao, President of the Port Authority of Valencia with Said Drissi El Bouzaidi, Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco.