The specialist in automotive air conditioning systems (HVAC), ContiTech, plans to install a new factory in Morocco in the coming months. It is Tanger automotive city, in the north of the country, which should welcome it.
116,000 jobs, including 2,800 engineering positions, have been created by the automotive sector in Morocco, according to the Minister of Industry, Moulay Hafid Elalamy.
The PSA Group’s vehicle production site in Kenitra plans to produce a total of 200,000 vehicles as early as 2020.
The two French and Italian manufacturers, Peugeot PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), have recently announced their merger. This could lead to the construction of an Italian factory in [Morocco].
In Morocco, more than 14,000 new vehicles, including nearly 2,000 light commercial vehicles, were sold in October, an increase of 24%. These vehicle importers are expected to surpass this feat during the last two months of the year.
The Institute of Training in Automotive Industry Trades in Casablanca (IFMIAC) and the Higher Institute of Vocational Education in Senegal (ISEP) in Diamniadio in Dakar, have just sealed an agreement to train technicians for automotive trades.
The Japanese group, JTEKT corporation, inaugurated on Wednesday, October 9, a new production site for steering systems. A 220 million dirham investment spread over an area of more than 11,300 square meters and located within the Tanger Med industrial platform.
Formula E will instead be organized in Marrakech on February 29, 2020, in place of Hong Kong, shaken by political protests.
The French automaker Peugeot, by setting up in Kenitra, seems to have influenced other companies in the sector, which, according to Jeune Afrique, believe that Morocco offers more opportunities in terms of liberal policy and political stability.
The fourth factory of the automotive giant, Yazaki , is being built in Kenitra, Morocco, proof that the Kingdom is attracting more and more global equipment manufacturers who are doing good business there.
A drug trafficker, arrested on Tuesday, September 17, in possession of drugs and for speeding, was sentenced to four months in prison in Vannes.
After proving itself in the sale of new vehicles with a market share that has jumped 3 points in a single semester to 43.3%, Renault Commerce Maroc (RCM) is about to make a substantial capital gain in the real estate sector.