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MOROCCAN PORTS FACING COVID-19

OPERATION CONTINUITY AND PREVENTIVE RIGOR

Once the first signs of the global spread of the Covid-19 virus appeared, various directives were set out in order to
maintain the port facilities in operation, while avoiding the risks of viral infiltration. The ports remained, therefore, the
only open border crossing point, thus ensuring a platform for the routing of imports and exports and the supply of
strategic products.

In response to the health crisis, the National Ports Agency Among the adopted measures
has implemented an operation continuity plan backed by a
rigorous health control protocol. In addition, the Agency has to receive the ships
mobilized its teams on the ground in order to coordinate and
synchronize the efforts of other port stakeholders. In this epidemic context, ships reception is considered as a
high-risk operation insofar as the distances sailed are often
The response of the port sector to Covid-19 has involved all long. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to detect cases
aspects of port management, namely: prior to the boarding of the crew members in their ports of
origin, given the Covid-19 characteristics.
Regulatory Organizational
agility flexibility In response to this risk of contamination, the following
measures have been adopted:

• Suspension of passenger and cruise traffic.
• Prohibition of crew landing in Moroccan ports.
• Limitation of contact with the crew members solely to
the Harbor Pilot while complying with the preventive
measures and disinfection rules before and after any
intervention on board of the ship.
• Particular handling of the ships having declared cases
Communication Digital anticipation thanks of infection on board, particularly at the level of the
serenity to the Smartport program
Local Port Security Committee (CLSP).
• Detection and follow-up of cases at the level of ships
and fishing sites with a monitoring of contact cases
and a systematization of the disinfection measures.

• Closure of specific port areas in case epidemic clusters
are reported.

2020 ANNUAL REPORT I NATIONAL PORTS AGENCY