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Moroccan ports handled 57 million tons of goods in 2002
Morocco, Economics, 5/31/2003
Moroccan ports handled in 2002 a total of 57 million tons of goods, including 56% of imports and 44% of exports, said here on Friday general manager of the Moroccan port authority (ODEP), Mustapha Barroug.
The official who was meeting visiting US under-secretary of state for trade, Maria Cino, said in the same year, there were some 303,000 cruise passengers. Cruise traffic is one of the major axes of a cooperation agreement signed between the Casablanca and Miami ports last October.
The share of traffic conducted with US ports stood at around 920,000 tons, accounting for 5% of all the goods traffic handled in the Casablanca port.
Traffic at Moroccan ports is essentially made of cereals (58%), coal (14%), animal feed (9%), oil grains (11%) and edible oil (5%).
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