The large-scale Tangier-Med Port, which has been under construction since 2003, will be operational in July, Equipment and Transport Minister Karim Ghellab said on Thursday (May 17th) at a cabinet meeting. The port will have an initial capacity of 3.5 million containers, and is expected to reach its full capacity of 8.5 million containers by 2015. Three additional terminals are scheduled for construction by 2012 and the port will be equipped with a natural gas liquefaction terminal and a re-gasification facility.
Morocco plans to invest $13 billion to build 1,500 km of high-speed railroads by 2030, Equipment and Transport Minister Karim Ghellab said on Tuesday (November 27th). The proposed projects include a high-speed "Atlantic line" linking Tangiers to Agadir, and a "Maghreb line" linking Casablanca and Oujda. The Casablanca line would eventually be extended to Tripoli, Libya as part of a larger transcontinental project. The first stage of the Moroccan high speed line, from Tangier to Casablanca and from Casablanca to Marrakech, will be ready by 2015, Ghellab said. In October Morocco and France signed a $2.6 billion agreement to bankroll the 200 km rail link.
Morocco expects to start work on the first high-speed trains in an Arab country, which would connect the Mediterranean coast to the Sahara Desert in 2007, Mohamed Rabie Khlie, managing director of national railway company ONCF, told Reuters in an interview on Friday (15 September). The speed of the trains would be 300 kilometres per hour and they would run from Tangier to Agadir via Marrakech and from Casablanca to Oujda. If the plans are approved, the 1,500km of track may take until 2030 to complete at a cost of around 25 billion dirhams, Khlie said.
The construction of Tamesna, a new suburb of Rabat, commenced on Tuesday (March 13th). The project, estimated at 22.3 billion dirhams, will provide housing for 250,000 inhabitants over a 4,000-hectare area. It also includes the building of schools, health centres, a hospital, mosques, industrial zones and a university. The project is a joint venture between the government and private companies from Morocco, Spain, France, Portugal, Malaysia, Qatar and Libya. It is part of the government’s programme to eradicate slums in the capital, and the cities of Casablanca, Tangier, Had Soualem, and Agadir. (Le Matin)
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