Hamburg and Tanger to cooperate
Digitally, Hamburg Port Authority and Tanger Med Port Authority just signed a letter of intent to form a maritime partnership.
Through this agreement, both port authorities jointly aim to work on exchanging experiences and good practices in several fields including: Efficiency of port and vessel operations, digitalisation and port community system, traffic management, port (cyber) security, IT data exchange and innovation.
Tanger Med is connected to more than 180 ports worldwide and offers handling capacities of 9 million containers.
In 2019, the universal port of Hamburg handled 1.3 million t of cargo in seaborne trade with Morocco, which constitutes an increase of 62.2% compared with the previous year. Totalling at 92,000 teu, container handling figures reached a record high with an increase of 14.2%. (cd)