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How much of Morocco’s trade passes through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore?

In 2024, an estimated $12.6 billion of Morocco’s trade passed through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, 9.6% of its seaborne trade. That is $1.3 billion of exports and $11.3 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, South Korea and Japan.

Summary

Estimated value
$12.6billion
Of its seaborne trade
9.6%
Exports
$1.3billion
Imports
$11.3billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Morocco’s estimated trade through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore rose 84% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Morocco 12.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$966 million7.3%
1996$957 million7.1%
1997$1 billion7.9%
1998$1.1 billion7.5%
1999$1.3 billion8.2%
2000$1.2 billion7.3%
2001$1.2 billion7.1%
2002$1.3 billion7.3%
2003$1.6 billion7.8%
2004$1.9 billion8%
2005$2.3 billion8%
2006$2.7 billion8.4%
2007$4.1 billion9.8%
2008$5 billion9%
2009$4.2 billion10.5%
2010$4.7 billion10.3%
2011$5.2 billion9%
2012$5.7 billion9.6%
2013$5.3 billion8.8%
2014$5.4 billion8.8%
2015$4.7 billion8.4%
2016$5.9 billion10.1%
2017$5.7 billion8.9%
2018$6.5 billion9.1%
2019$6.9 billion9.5%
2020$6.5 billion10%
2021$8 billion9.2%
2022$9 billion8.4%
2023$9.1 billion8.8%
2024$12.6 billion9.6%

Partners whose trade crosses it

Estimated value of its trade with each partner that crosses the chokepoint; the percentage is the share of all its trade through the chokepoint, not of the pair’s trade.

  1. Morocco–China$9.8 billion · 78%
  2. Morocco–South Korea$914 million · 7.2%
  3. Morocco–Japan$818 million · 6.5%
  4. Morocco–Vietnam$301 million · 2.4%
  5. Morocco–Thailand$261 million · 2.1%
  6. Morocco–Russia$188 million · 1.5%
  7. Morocco–Taiwan$153 million · 1.2%
  8. Morocco–Singapore$69 million · 0.55%
  9. Morocco–Hong Kong$33 million · 0.26%
  10. Morocco–Malaysia$24 million · 0.19%

What crosses it

The products with the highest estimated value in 2024, with their share of the total through the chokepoint.

  1. Other knitted fabric$338 million · 2.7%
  2. Auto parts$322 million · 2.6%
  3. Refined copper$311 million · 2.5%
  4. Cables and wire$282 million · 2.2%
  5. Synthetic filament fabric$271 million · 2.1%
  6. Cars$250 million · 2%
  7. Tea$233 million · 1.9%
  8. Rayon fabric$223 million · 1.8%
  9. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$220 million · 1.7%
  10. Motorcycles$208 million · 1.7%

Reference ports

Tangier (30%) and Casablanca (70%)

Each port with the weight it receives from the country’s trade, based on where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest.

Other chokepoints it uses

Sources and method

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Methodology

We estimate the value crossing each chokepoint from BACI trade that travels by sea according to our mode heuristic, split between each country’s ports by where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest, and routed over our own sea network. It is an estimate, not a count of ships. It covers 99.9% of seaborne trade. The approach follows Verschuur, Lumma and Hall (Nature Communications, 2025). Data up to 2024.

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