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News 24 Jun 2012 3 min read

Conversion of the Tangier-Ville harbour into a marina

- The project to convert the Tangier-Ville port zone aims to position the city of the Strait as a flagship destination for pleasure and cruise tourism on the Mediterranean scale.
- The work will be completed at the end of 2016 for a total investment of 6.5 billion dirhams.
Conversion of the Tangier-Ville harbour into a marina
Tangier has always been a "small world city". It has long been inscribed in the global imagination as a city of exchanges and cosmopolitanism.Gateway to the Mediterranean and Africa, Tangier has a unique and ideally located site.An international city ahead of its time, it has all the assets to regain, in the era of globalisation, the status it acquired more than a century ago. The great geography of the bay, the topography that showcases the Medina and the bathymetry of the strait, which dictated the location and evolution of the port, have composed over time a unique ensemble.The first operation to convert a port site on the scale of the Kingdom, this project has as its main objective to allow the city of the strait to position itself as a flagship destination for cruise and pleasure tourism on the Mediterranean scale. This major project will endow the city of Tangier with a tourist an…

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