Nador Port
| Port Nador | |
|---|---|
Ferry in Nador with the border pier in the background
and Melilla port in the background |
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| Location | |
| Country | Morocco |
| Location |
Beni Ensar / Aït Nsar Nador (10 km.), Melilla |
| Coordinates | 35°10′N 2°34′W / 35.17°N 2.57°W |
| Details | |
| Operated by | Societe d'Exploitation des Ports (SODEP) |
| Type of harbor | goods, fish, ferry and hydrocarbons |
| Piers | 1000 m goods-pier, 600 m ferry, 100 m hydro-carbons |
| Employees | 192 |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 2.3 million tonnes |
| Passenger traffic | 598.710 |
| Staff | 192 |
[[File:|thumb|right|Map of Melilla showing Nador port]] The port of Nador is a commercial port on the Mediterranean servicing the Rif area of Northern Morocco. The port is officially in Beni Ensar / Aït Nsar and shares its piers and entrance with the port of the Spanish enclave Melilla. It is a semi-artificial port using the Bou Areg Lagoon.
The port is directly connected to the Spanish enclave Melilla: the port of Melilla uses approximately 70% of the wet area, while Nador port uses the remaining 30% of the south-east area. The port is used as ferry/ro-ro port, dry-bulk and has facilities for hydro-carbons. The ro-ro facilities are used by ferry operators on the route to/from Spain.
In 1994 the operator FerriMaroc opened the line to the Port of Almeria. Before that date one could only sail to the area via Melilla or via the ferry-terminal in Al Hoceima.
The operator MarsaMaroc, who operate the main ports in Morocco, offer the following facilities in Nador Port The port can be divided in three main parts:
The main good terminal has 700 metres of deep-water keys (13 metre deep) and another 300 metre keys with a water-depth of 10 metres. This Terminal 2 is a bulk goods terminal receiving bulk-goods such as ore and billets for the nearby steel-mill SONASID and is also used as (small) fishing port. A total of 14,7 hectare land-area is available for storing or moving goods.
Nador Port is now an important ferry terminal for North-Eastern Morocco with direct daily links to Spain (Almeria) and weekly connection to France (Sete)
For ferries operating to Europe the port offers 600 meter keys for Roll-on/roll-off ferries with elevated foot-bridges for foot-passengers to cross the car-traffic on different levels and thus not hindering each other at (dis)embarkction with also 13 meter depth.
Finally there is a 100 metre long pier for reception of hydrocarbons with a waterdepth of 13 metres.
Since the Moroccan train operator ONCF opened the branch-line Taourirt - Nador in 2009 the port also offers daily train connections to the rest of the country. The train-stop Beni Ensar / Aït Nsar Port is the terminus for trains to Tanger and Casablanca via Fez. (see also: Nador railway stations)
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