China Eyes Morocco’s National Railway Amid Privatization Debate

The national railway transport company has certainly been heavily impacted by the global health crisis, but the real causes of its difficulties are to be found elsewhere, according to the intervention of a deputy in the Moroccan parliament.

Indeed, reports the newspaper El Ousboue, according to Rachid El Abdi, member of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity, the Office would be threatened by the many "management problems" and the "occult methods used in the management and awarding of economic and commercial services".

These debates, the same source points out, would have attracted the covetousness of the Chinese who, in their report, have not ruled out the hypothesis of an entry into the capital. An initiative that should not at all please the historical partner of the Kingdom, France, warn the authors of the report.

It should be noted that the two countries are competing for the high-speed rail (HSR) project that is to connect Casablanca to Marrakech and then to Agadir.