A new port will be built in the Kénitra region. This action, included in the framework of the port strategy for the 2030 horizon, comes to respond to a structural need.

The commercial activity of the current port of the region shows a structural deficit due to the limited level of traffic handled as well as the cost of dredging, which is around 25 million dirhams annually.

Indeed, the activity of the port of Kénitra does not exceed 300,000 tonnes per year. The port unit continues to shrink with a continuous regression of the volumes handled each year.

“This new port on the Atlantic will serve, in addition to the traffic of the current port of Kénitra, the flows originating from or destined for the Gharb, the Saiss, and the Loukkos”, emphasizes the National Ports Agency in a press release. To do this, a study has been launched to identify new opportunities for the port of Kénitra and to create a new economic dynamic allowing for the valorization of the existing port heritage as well as the neighboring land reserves.

“The said project aims to reconvert and requalify this port site for a new adequacy between its physical characteristics and the new opportunities identified, redeploy the infrastructures of the port complex and valorize the existing land heritage, and translate the identified opportunities into a feasible design in terms of development (maritime and terrestrial)”, indicates the same source.

In this regard, the National Ports Agency is considering the reframing of the operating system of the port of Kénitra. “Talks are currently underway with port users and dock workers, with the aim of stopping the modalities and accompanying measures for the implementation of this reframing”, adds the agency.