{"id":56262,"date":"2017-01-23T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/morocco-airports-register-record-breaking-numbers\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:26:43","slug":"morocco-airports-register-record-breaking-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-airports-register-record-breaking-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco airports register record-breaking numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Airports in Morocco registered record-breaking passenger traffic in 2016 with 18.2 million, according to the National Office of Airports (ONDA, in the French acronym). The data was published by news outlet <em>Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP)<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>According to <em>MAP<\/em>, passenger traffic rose 3.58% in comparison to the previous year; aircraft traffic rose 1.16% to 161,837 landings and takeoffs; and cargo volume increased 6.52% to 68,400 tons. The volume of cargo handled has been increasing since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The most significant traffic increases took place in the airports of Rabat-Sal&eacute; (23.69%), La&acirc;youne Hassan I (19.95%) and Dakhla (20.96%). Rabat is the capital of the country and La&acirc;youne and Dakhla are in the Western Sahara, territory in the South controlled by Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>However, the busiest Morrocan terminal is Casablanca, the country&rsquo;s largest city. Passenger traffic at Mohammed V airport rose 5.36% last year in comparison to 2015, reaching 8.6 million. In the list of busiest terminals, it&rsquo;s followed by the airports of Marrakech and Agadir &#8211; Massira. <\/p>\n<p>However, there is a large gap in passenger traffic among the top three airports in the list. Casablanca accounted for 50.34% of the total, with Marrakech representing 18.05% and Agadir &ndash;Massira totaling 7.02%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-191271\">MAP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year\u2019s passenger traffic reached 18.2 million, an increase of 3.58% in comparison to 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":191271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"wps_subtitle":"Last year\u2019s passenger traffic reached 18.2 million, an increase of 3.58% in comparison to 2015.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}