RABAT, July 6 – Marsa Maroc will invest 3 billion Moroccan dirhams (about $300 million) to expand container handling capacity at the Port of Casablanca after securing a 20 year extension of its concession to operate Container Terminal 3.
The investment will increase the terminal’s capacity from 600,000 to 900,000 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) by 2030. Once completed, the expansion is expected to lift the port’s overall container handling capacity to more than 2 million TEUs.
The project includes extending quay facilities, upgrading cargo handling equipment and redesigning storage areas across the company’s two container terminals. Marsa Maroc said the upgrades are aimed at improving efficiency while allowing the port to handle growing cargo volumes.
The concession extension, granted to the company’s subsidiary TC3PC, gives Marsa Maroc the long term certainty needed to carry out the expansion as Morocco’s largest commercial port prepares for higher trade activity in the coming years.
Meanwhile, Morocco’s National Ports Agency (ANP) said operations at the Port of Casablanca have improved after measures introduced to ease congestion cut vessel delays by nearly half.
The port had come under pressure since December 2025 as poor weather, rising cargo volumes and operational disruptions slowed the movement of goods.
To address the situation, the agency strengthened port management by closely monitoring vessels waiting offshore and at berth, improving berth allocation, tightening oversight of cargo clearance and working more closely with freight receivers to speed up cargo evacuation.
