The towage service in the port of Nador West Med for Marsa Maroc and Boluda Towage France
Marsa Maroc and Boluda Towage France will be in charge of the towage service in the port of Nador West Med.
The consortium formed by the Moroccan company and the French subsidiary of the Spanish company Boluda has been chosen to provide towage and assistance services in the port of Nador West Med.
This partnership is part of an international tender launched by Nador West Med to guarantee the optimal functioning of the port's maritime services.
The operating licence is for a period of 20 years, starting in the last quarter of 2026.
The service will be carried out through a joint subsidiary that will manage operations and make the necessary investments. These investments include the acquisition of a fleet of four tugs, with a towing capacity of 80 tonnes, for approximately 45 million euros.
The capital of this future organisation will be divided between Boluda Towage France (51%) and Marsa Maroc (49%). Thanks to this collaboration, Marsa Maroc will strengthen the development of its towage division. To date, this unit already provides towage services in seven Moroccan ports, which demonstrates the significant presence of the company considered to be the main port operator in the Moroccan kingdom.
Marsa Maroc is a port operator that is positioned as a leading player in Moroccan port traffic, with a very significant presence in the main commercial ports of the North African country, as well as in the port of Cotonou, in Benin.
Marsa Maroc offers an important service to importers, exporters and various shipping companies, meeting all the required standards through a good quality of service and with a remarkable fleet and human team.
Meanwhile, Boluda Towage France is a subsidiary of Boluda Corporación Marítima, a leading Spanish company in maritime services, with its main base in Valencia. Present in fifty countries and active in a hundred ports, the Spanish group operates a fleet of more than 400 ships.
Morocco is planning a major infrastructure for the future in Nador West Med with an industrial-port platform integrated into the Mediterranean coast of the eastern region of Morocco. The Nador West Med project will be built in Betoya Bay, located on the western coast of the Cape of Three Forks, less than 400 kilometres from the Strait of Gibraltar and opposite the main east-west shipping lanes for container and oil product traffic.
This port infrastructure will consist of a new deepwater port, with significant capacity for the development of an energy hub (processing, packaging, storage of hydrocarbons and derived products) and the processing of bulk products, in particular coal.
The integrated industrial platform is very important in this case. To realise this major project and facilitate relations with future investors and partners, the Nador West Med project has been designed by the Moroccan government with a development and governance logic inspired by the successful experience of the port of Tangier Med, which is located in the north of the Moroccan kingdom.
Tangier Med is now ranked as the leading port in Africa and the Mediterranean and 17th in the world, according to the global ranking produced by Alphaliner.
The public company Nador West Med was created for the new port infrastructure and is responsible for the construction, development, planning, promotion and management of the industrial-port complex, in accordance with the agreements signed with the Moroccan Government.
Nador West Med is part of a major development plan for more port infrastructure in Morocco, which also includes the future port of Dakhla, located in the so-called Moroccan southern provinces.
Spain and France will thus have a significant presence in the future port of Nador West Med, demonstrating the close cooperation that continues to exist between these two nations and Morocco, reinforced by the good diplomatic relations that currently exist between the parties.