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Marsa Maroc, a Moroccan company, will run Liberia’s main port as part of Africa's expansion

Posted to Maritime Reporter on February 10, 2026

Marsa Maroc, Morocco’s leading port operator said that it had signed a deal on Tuesday with Liberia’s ports authority, to manage the port of Monrovia from the first half of 2026. Marsa Maroc International Logistics will perform rehabilitation work…

UNHCR: Six migrants dead, 40 missing after shipwreck near Lampedusa in Italy

Posted to Maritime Reporter on March 19, 2025

A spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that at least six migrants had died and forty were missing following a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa. Separately, the Italian coastguard confirmed that it intervened…

An NGO claims that dozens of migrants could have drowned on their way to Spain via boat.

Posted to Maritime Reporter on January 16, 2025

Walking Borders, a group that advocates for migrants' rights, said Thursday that as many as fifty migrants who attempted to reach Spain via boat from West Africa drowned. Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people on Wednesday from a boat which had left Mauritania in January…

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Marsa Maroc, a Moroccan company, will run Liberia’s main port as part of Africa's expansion

UNHCR: Six migrants dead, 40 missing after shipwreck near Lampedusa in Italy

An NGO claims that dozens of migrants could have drowned on their way to Spain via boat.

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