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It's only 60 miles, so why isn't there a ferry from Morocco to the Canary Islands?


The Assalama, the last ferry to ply the route, remains beached
Credit: Alamy
A new ferry route that connects continents? It sounds a grand idea, all broad horizons and open water, even before you get to the caveat that it would only be a continental connection in geo-political terms – linking Africa to a set of islands caught in its shadow.
Even then, it seems a vision wholly at odds with the unhappy path 2020 has followed, where the trend has been for travel restrictions, closed borders and cancelled flights. But if murmurs emanating from North Africa prove to be accurate, we could soon see boats ploughing a furrow across what is currently one of the world s least-served stretches of ocean – the narrow patch of the Atlantic which divides Morocco from the Canary Islands. ....

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