In 2019, the last time OPE took place, almost 3.5 million people and some 800,000 vehicles crossed the Strait of Gibraltar between 15 June and 15 September © Puerto de Algeciras
Morocco details summer fleets and re-opens to passenger traffic from Spain
May 12 2022
FerryAfter a two-year ban on maritime passenger traffic from Spain, partly due to the COVID pandemic, and partly due to politics, Morocco announced that passenger traffic could resume between Spanish and Moroccan ports. Balearia, FRS, InterShipping and Africa Morocco Link (AML) promptly resumed within days, but strangely, Armas-Trasmediterranea did not, apparently due to Moroccan pressure for the company to remove their abandoned/beached ferry ASSALAMA from the port of Tarfaya, following an incident when the said ferry hit the breakwater in 2008. However, they are named below as a summer operator.
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