Morocco Advances Major Highway Projects, Boosting National Infrastructure

Speaking before the deputies in the House of Representatives on Monday, the Minister of Culture and Communication, Mehdi Bensaid, who is replacing the supervising minister who is accompanying, along with other Moroccan officials, King Mohammed VI to Abu Dhabi, provided an update on the progress of major national infrastructure projects underway or planned, reported Médias24. It emerges from his intervention that the work on the Driouech-Nador West Med section, over a length of 27 km, is in the process of being launched and that highway projects such as the Casablanca-Rabat continental highway; the Agadir highway; the Marrakech-Béni Mellal highway and the Berrechid-Had Soualem highway are under study.

Regarding the express road between Tiznit and Laâyoune, the minister said that it has a progress rate of 90%. As for the progress of the work on the widening of the RN1 Laâyoune-Dakhla, it has reached 100%. Discussing the Dakhla Atlantic port project, Mehdi Bensaid specified that the progress rate has so far reached 12%. "We have provided construction materials to carry out the final constructions such as the maritime bridge and the protection works. A preliminary area of 1,000 ha has been reserved for industrial activities adjacent to the port, in addition to a port area of 650 ha," he added.