Jorf Lasfar (Arabic for "Yellow Cliffs")^[1] is a deepwater commercial port located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.^[2] In terms of the volume of product processed, as of 2004, it was considered the second most important port in Morocco (just after Casablanca).^[3] It is home to a swiftly expanding industrial quarter,^[4] which includes both major artificial fertilizer and petrochemical factories.^[1] Its harbour is well equipped for the exportation of phosphate rock (transported from Gantour and Ouled Abdoun)^[1] and various chemicals such as pure sulphur, ammonia, and sulphuric acid.^[5] The city is home to the largest independent power station in the country—primarily funded by investments from the Swedish-Swiss company ABB Group and the American company CMS Energy—which was thought to be capable of creating a third of Morocco's total power output.^[6] The investment, numbering $1.5 billion,^[7] was the single largest foreign investment on Moroccan soil up until that point.^[6]

In 2002 the Moroccan company Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP)—a state-owned phosphate exporter—started the building of an air quality research laboratory at Jorf Lasfar.^[8] It was announced in 2008 that the Abu Dhabi-based International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) was in the beginning stages of preparations for the construction of an oil refinery at Jorf Lasfar at a cost of $5 billion. With a proposed production capacity of 200, 000 barrels per day (bpd), the refinery is set to be completed in 2013.^[9] In the beginning of 2010, OCP began accepting proposals for the building of a desalination plant.^[10] The Moroccan government was interested in building the plant at least since 2001, when the United States Trade and Development Agency supplied $250,000 for preliminary studies.^[11] The plant, which will provide drinking water for the city of El Jadida, has a planned capacity of 200,000 m3/d and was scheduled to be finished in 2012.^[12] OCP also has plans for the erection of 4 additional phosphate fertilizer factories, specializing in diammonium and monoammonium phosphate.^[13] Samsung and Daewoo were awarded the contracts for carrying out the construction of these 4 additional units (2 each)^[14][15]

Since December, 2006 the management of the port has been transferred to Marsa Maroc, a state-owned public company responsible for the management of 9 ports in Morocco.

Cap Blanc du Nord, the lighthouse at the entrance of the port, is not known to be reliable, with its light occasionally going out.^[16]