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The port is operated by Marsa Maroc. The port offers 3 terminals: Quay 1,2 and 4. Quay 1: is 150 meter long with a managed depth of 6,15 meter and has 9900 m 2 land area. Quay 1 is used for hydro-carbons and sand. Quay 2: is 145 meter long and is 6.15 meter deep. The land-area is 5600 m 2 and offers facilities for containers and hydrocarbons.
The Port of Casablanca is one of the largest artificial ports in Morocco and in the world, though it was eclipsed when Tangiers-Med —a cargo port 40 km east of Tangiers and the largest on the Mediterranean coast of Africa in terms of capacity—went into service in 2007. The Port of Casablanca's initial capacity was 3.5 million shipment ...
Time zone. UTC+1 ( CET) Mohammedia ( Arabic: المحمدية, romanized : al-muḥammadiyya ), known until 1960 as Fedala ( Arabic: فضالة ), is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Casablanca-Settat. It hosts the most important oil refinery of Morocco, the Samir Refinery, which makes it ...
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir ( Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on neutral [3] [a] French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. The attack was the main part of Operation Catapult, a British plan to neutralise or destroy neutral ...
Mohammed V International Airport is the hub of the national airline of Morocco, Royal Air Maroc. Casablanca's main airport is Mohammed V International Airport, Morocco's busiest airport. Regular domestic flights serve Marrakech, Rabat, Agadir, Oujda, Tangier, Al Hoceima, and Laayoune, as well as other cities.
Granite from Tafraoute [1] The Hassan II Mosque ( Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني, French: Grande Mosquée Hassan II) is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 14th largest in the world. [citation needed] Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft).
History of Casablanca. Casablanca in 1572, when it was still called Anfa. The history of the city of Casablanca in Morocco has been one of many political and cultural changes. At different times it has been governed by Berber, Roman, Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, and Moroccan regimes. It has had an important position in the region ...
During World War II, Morocco, which was then occupied by France, was controlled by Vichy France from 1940 to 1942 after the occupation of France by Nazi Germany. However, after the North African campaign (June 1940 – May 1943), Morocco was under Allied control and thus was active in Allied operations until the end of the war.