Casablanca Awaits 350 New GPS-Equipped Garbage Trucks to Modernize Waste Management

Pending the delivery of these new vehicles, Casablanca residents must endure the old trucks that have been circulating for a few months, despite the signing of a contract, dated June 2019, between the city of Casablanca and the delegated companies Derichebourg and [Averda]. The delivery was scheduled for December 21, but the authorities are still waiting to be satisfied, reports Telquel.

According to a source close to the file, the equipment would have been well received, but the reasons why these two companies, which nevertheless won the tender, have not yet delivered the garbage trucks, are unknown and left to the discretion of the officials. Nevertheless, Derichebourg and Averda were allocated, as part of their contract, a budget of 893 million dirhams per year for a period of seven years.

These new trucks are of the latest generation and the wait is worth it. Indeed, they have, among other things, robotic boxes, rear-wheel steering and GPS screens. The equipment also includes new bins (25,000 units) equipped with RFID chips to locate and track them, the same source said.