Tangier Med Port ranked fifth globally in the 2024 Container Port Performance Index, outperforming major ports in the Middle East and Europe. The index also highlighted mixed results for other Moroccan ports, with Casablanca placed 288th and Agadir 297th. The Port of Tangier Med ranked fifth in the 2024 Container Port Performance Index (CPPI), published by the World Bank in partnership with Standard & Poor's Global Market Intelligence. The index highlights key trends in container port efficiency between 2020 and 2024. The CPPI assessed the performance of 403 container ports worldwide, drawing on an extensive dataset of more than 175,000 ship arrivals and over 247 million container movements. A port's efficiency is primarily measured by the total time a vessel spends docked, an essential indicator of the reliability and resilience of global trade. China's Yangshan Port topped the ranking, followed by Fuzhou, Egypt's Port Said, and Dalian. Tangier Med secured fifth place, ahead of major hubs such as Qatar's Hamad Port and Spain's Algeciras Port, which ranked 20th. Two other Moroccan ports also featured in the ranking: Casablanca, at 288th place, and Agadir, at 297th. By comparison, other Maghreb ports ranked far lower: Algeria's Béjaïa (386th), Tunisia's Rades (251st), and Libya's Qasr Ahmed (284th) and Khoms (321st). Mauritania's Nouakchott Port was placed at 314th. The report's fifth edition noted a global decline in port performance between 2020 and 2024, driven by disruptions such as the Red Sea shipping crisis, difficulties in the Panama Canal, and lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also pointed to uneven efficiency gains, with East Asian ports achieving strong improvements, South Asia showing signs of recovery, and ports in North America and Europe maintaining stable performance at near-2023 levels.
