Rabat – Ferry services between Morocco and Gibraltar are back again after two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions.
After more than 24 months of restrictions as the world struggled to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the link between Morocco and the overseas British territory was finally restored last week.
Several high-profile officials attended an event marking the resumption of the ferry service between Gibraltar and Tangier, including the Moroccan Community Association in Gibraltar, Ali Douissi, Gibraltar’s Minister for the Port, Vijay Daryanani, and representatives from FRS, the transportation company overseeing traffic between Morocco and Gibraltar, according to the Gibraltar Chronicle.
“Morocco could be very interesting for Gibraltar in terms of commerce and tourism, we can develop things there and I hope this is only the start of something more long-term and more frequent,” Daryanani told the Gibraltar Chronicle.
“We have been in very close contact with the Moroccan community from the first-day travel closed as well as the Government, I think in weekly contact to make sure when there was the opportunity we could start service again,” an official from FRS said.
Reinstating travel links between Gibraltar and Morocco is crucial to the Moroccan community, Ali Doussi explained.
Speaking on the significance of reinstating the travel link between the two destinations, Douissi said that “Everybody is happy here, we are so proud to have the ferry back because it is very important to the Moroccan community and also all Gibraltar because Gibraltar is lucky to have two frontiers.”
After more than two years of the COVID-19 hiatus, the world is slowly returning to normal as travel restrictions slowly ease.
Morocco has recently opened air, land, and sea borders, in an attempt to attract new tourists.
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