The port of Casablanca diverts phosphates

The slurry pipeline project, which will soon ensure the transport of the entire phosphate production from Khouribga to the Jorf Lasfer site, does not seem to worry the Casablanca port administration. According to an official from the National Ports Agency (ANP), the cessation of raw phosphate exports via the Casablanca port will have no impact on port traffic or revenue.Indeed, the administration intends to develop other activities (cereal and mining). "Our strategic plan has already anticipated this situation, and as a result, we have thought of alternative activities. Better yet, traffic is so intense within the port that we need new berthing posts to avoid saturation. Indeed, a port must operate at only two-thirds capacity and leave one-third unoccupied," an ANP source explained to us on the sidelines of the Casablanca Port Centenary press briefing held yesterday in the metropolis.Th…