Yesterday the Council of Ministers of Morocco has introduced a plan of expansion of the port of Tanger Med that previews the realization of 1200 meters of docks, that they will have an annual ability of traffic of the container pairs to 4,5 million teu in front of an investment of eight billion dirham (803 million dollars) and that they will be located west of Tanger Med 2, that constitutes the first phase of enlargement of the port inaugurated in 2019.

For the development and management of the new harbour area Tanger Med 3 is already signed a concession contract with the Dutch APM Terminals of the Danish shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk. The contract agreement has had the free way of the government with decree of 9 September of approval of a convention signed 31 July with the APM Terminals MedPort Tangier and an additional act to the concession with the APM Terminals Tangier.

The 30-year concession was signed by the Maersk Group in January 2005(of 28 January 2005). With the new agreement the Danish group Maersk will arrive to control three of the five container terminals of Tanger Med, further strengthening its role in the primary harbour hub in the western Mediterranean. Currently, in fact, APM Terminals manages the Container Terminal 1 (TC1) in the original port of Tanger Med, entered in exercise in 2007(of 23 July 2007), with a capacity of approximately 1.5 million teu, and the Container Terminal 4 (TC4), located in the harbour area Tanger Med 2, entered in exercise in 2019(of 28 June 2019) and developed directly by the Dutch company. After the successive enlargements, the two terminals have reached a capacity of approximately 5,0-5,2 million teu a year.