Record Number of Expatriates Vacationing Home: One Million
Morocco, Local, 8/10/2001

The number of Moroccan expatriates who sailed from Spanish southern ports to spend summer holidays at home reached on Tuesday a record number of one million people.

According to sources from the committee supervising the transit operation in Spain, from June 15 through Aug.7, some 1,009,862 Moroccans and 240,320 cars sailed from the ports of Algesiras, Almeria, and Malaga towards Tangiers, Nador and Moroccan occupied towns of Sebta and Melillia.

A total of 2,424 shuttles were operated from June 15 to Aug.8 between Spanish southern ports and Moroccan northern ones.

Starting from Aug.7, the pace of embarking at the Spanish ports slowed down as the return season starts.

On Wednesday alone, a total of 12,792 Moroccan expatriates embarked from the Spanish southern ports towards Morocco.

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