A new industrial port for Nador, Morroco
A new connection between Africa and Europe
Inspired by the success of the Tangier port project of the early 2000s, the Moroccan government launched the Nador West Med project, applying a similar development and management strategy. The Nador West Med complex consists of a deep-water port and an integrated industrial port platform with free trade zone. The deep-water port has the necessary infrastructure to develop an energy pool, tranship containers and process bulk products. The free trade zone, in turn, is intended to attract and accommodate investors and international companies.
We worked closely with Turkey's STFA Group and Morocco's SGTM for this assignment. They both took on the civil construction activities, while we made sure the planning of the dredging works ran parallel to the various construction phases of the port. We had a diverse and large fleet on the project for this purpose.
Nador in numbers
Did you know?
- The Nador West Med port is strategically located in the Bay of Betoya, close to major East-West shipping routes, making it an important hub for container and energy transport between Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean region.
- The port is being developed in multiple phases to allow for future expansion and flexibility, adapting to changing needs in the maritime and industrial sectors.
- Our specialised dredging equipment, including cutter suction dredgers and trailing suction hopper dredgers, is used to excavate and prepare the port's basin and access channels.
- This deep-water port is designed to handle large-scale container transshipment and bulk cargo, and includes specialized terminals for petroleum products, bulk goods, and ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) vessels
- The Nador West Med project is expected to significantly boost the economy of northeastern Morocco, providing infrastructure that supports industries, logistics, and international trade
Nador West Med port in detail
We built the first port module in collaboration with STFA (Turkey) - SGTM (Morocco) and included:
- a main breakwater over a length of approximately 4.3 km and a secondary breakwater of about 1.2 km;
- two container terminals with quay lengths of 1.5 km and 600 m and a depth of -18 m;
- a petroleum terminal with three tanker-berths at a depth of -20 m;
- a bulk terminal with a 360 m quay and a depth of -20 m;
- a diverse terminal (-11 m depth) with a ro-ro berth and a service quay.
