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- A 22 000-ton monster.

- Usually, ships so great a size only cruise off shore the coast of Morocco.

- Today, let’s move hard-a starboard to land in the new Tangier Mediterranean Harbor.

- And it is just the beginning.

- Now every year hundreds of big freighters such as this one will come and go.

- They will come to unload or load containers from this terminal,

- leased to the group Maersk, Danish sea-giant.

- Etienne Rocher, the man wearing a tie, manages the Moroccan subsidiary,

- as usual his tour rallies all the staff,

- a chance to keep an eye on the maneuvers of those titanic cranes.

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- Everything that must be there for the launching has been set.

- So today we have 5 gantries out of a total of 8.

- The last 3 should be here by April-May 2008.

- We have 15 wheeled straddle carriers out of a total of 26,

- the coming 11 ones will arrive by June 2008

- and we have about 30 trucks,

- and this entire equipment that is now gathered

- helps us develop our activity over the coming 12 months.

- This concessionary invested one billion Dirhams only into pieces of equipment,

- they are the world’s finest harbor handling machines.

- As an example, those wheeled straddle carriers are 1 200 000 Euros worth each.

- And those giant gantries, 7 million Euros each, nothing less.

- We shot this equipment three years ago, or rather its equivalent.

- That was in the opposite harbor, in Algeciras.

- Remember that at the time Tangier Med was just a vast building site.

- For example, this very first 3, 200 ton concrete chamber,

- does it ring a bell?

- So today, forty of them are located on the main dyke of the harbor.

- The Tangier Med dream has come true.

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