- CEO
- Tarik El Aroussi
- Full Time Employees
- 2,034
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Other transportation
- Address
- Casablanca Morocco
- IPO Date
- Jul 19, 2016
- Business
- Marsa Maroc SA is a Morocco-based port terminal operator specializing in comprehensive maritime logistics, port infrastructure management, and stevedoring services. Founded in 2006 following the structural reform of Morocco's port sector and headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, the company operates as a publicly traded entity listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange under the ticker MSA, with Tanger Med Special Agency serving as a principal strategic shareholder. The company operates across multiple specialized business segments, including Container Handling, Bulk Cargo Logistics, General Cargo Services, Roll-on/Roll-off Operations, and Vessel Marine Services.
The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of port operations and integrated logistics services categorized into goods handling, vessel assistance, and value-added supply chain solutions: container handling services, including quay crane stevedoring, yard stacking, empty and full container storage, refrigerated container monitoring, verified gross mass weighing, and container stripping and stuffing; dry bulk handling services, encompassing the loading, unloading, conveying, and warehousing of solid bulk commodities such as phosphates, fertilizers, cereals, coal, petcoke, clinker, and industrial minerals; liquid bulk handling services, including pipeline discharge, pumping, and terminal storage facilitation for refined hydrocarbons, crude oil, chemical derivatives, and vegetable oils; conventional and general cargo handling, covering the management of steel coils, timber, project cargo, oversized industrial equipment, and bagged goods; Roll-on/Roll-off handling services, providing dedicated terminal berths, marshalling yards, and transshipment management for new automotive vehicles, commercial trucks, and roll-trailers; vessel and marine assistance services, featuring towage, harbor piloting, line handling and mooring, freshwater supply, bunkering support, and ship provisioning; and integrated digital and logistics support services, including bonded warehousing, intermodal freight coordination, customs staging, electronic billing, real-time cargo and vessel tracking via proprietary e-service platforms, and maintenance engineering for port handling equipment.
Marsa Maroc SA primarily serves international shipping lines, maritime freight forwarders, industrial manufacturers, commodity traders, agricultural import-export enterprises, automotive producers, and petrochemical distributors. The company conducts extensive operations across key commercial maritime hubs along Morocco's Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, maintaining multi-terminal concessions at the ports of Casablanca, Tanger Med via its Tanger Alliance subsidiary, Mohammedia, Jorf Lasfar, Agadir, Nador, Safi, Al Hoceima, Laâyoune, and Dakhla.
In recent strategic developments, Marsa Maroc has accelerated its domestic infrastructure expansion and international growth initiatives. The company launched a 21 billion Moroccan dirham capital investment program spanning 2025 to 2030 to upgrade and modernize critical port infrastructure. Marsa Maroc secured the concession and finalized operational agreements for the Eastern Container Terminal at the deepwater port of Nador West Med, while concluding an operating agreement with CMA CGM for the Western Container Terminal. To advance transshipment capabilities at Nador West Med, the company formed a strategic partnership with Terminal Investment Limited, a subsidiary of the MSC Group, integrating the entity into the capital of West Med Container Terminal, and established a joint towing consortium with Boluda Towage alongside taking an equity participation in Boluda Maritime Terminals. In 2026, the company secured a 20-year concession extension for Container Terminal 3 at the Port of Casablanca under a 3 billion Moroccan dirham modernization program to expand terminal capacity to 900,000 TEUs by 2030, and was awarded the concession for petroleum berth 8 Bis at the Port of Jorf Lasfar. Expanding beyond its domestic market, the company established Marsa Maroc International Logistics and entered into a management contract for commercial port operations at the Port of Monrovia in Liberia, marking the group's operational entry into West Africa.