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Marsa Maroc is the main operator of ports in Morocco. Its legal status is a Société Anonyme (Plc.) with an Executive board chaired by Mohammed Abdeljalil and a supervisory board chaired by the Minister of Equipment and Transport. The official company name is Société d'Exploitation des Ports while Marsa Maroc is its trading name.
The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911 and the deployment of the German gunboat SMS Panther to Agadir, a Moroccan Atlantic port. [1] Germany did not object to France's expansion but wanted ...
Agadir ( Arabic: أكادير, romanized : ʾagādīr, pronounced [ʔaɡaːdiːr]; Tachelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and 509 kilometres (316 mi) south of Casablanca. Agadir is the ...
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 ...
The Kasbah of Agadir Oufla [1] ( Tashelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ ⵓⴼⵍⵍⴰ, Agadir Uflla) is a historical landmark in Agadir, Morocco that housed the old city of Agadir, much of which was affected by the earthquake that struck the city. The fort is located on the top of a mountain rising 236 meters above sea level in the north of the town ...
Royal Palace of Casablanca, created in the 1920s; [2] Dar Es Salam Palace, Rabat, created by Sultan Mohammed V; Royal Palace of Ifrane, created by Sultan Mohammed V in the 1930s; [1] [3] Royal Palace of Tétouan, created in 1956 by merging the former governor's mansion with the adjacent residence-general of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco ...
The 1960 Agadir earthquake occurred on 29 February at 23:40:18 Western European Time near the city of Agadir, located in western Morocco on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the earthquake's moderate Mw scale magnitude of 5.8, its relatively shallow depth (15.0 km [7]) resulted in strong surface shaking, with a maximum perceived ...
Jorf Lasfar ( Arabic for "Yellow Cliffs") [1] is a deepwater commercial port located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. [2] In terms of the volume of product processed, as of 2004, it was considered the second most important port in Morocco (just after Casablanca ). [3] It is home to a swiftly expanding industrial quarter, [4] which includes ...