Moroccan Firm Wins $200 Million Contract for Final Phase of Kénitra-Marrakech High-Speed Rail Project

"The contract, worth 2 billion dirhams, covers earthworks, civil engineering structures, communications and fencing on the section from the outskirts of Marrakech to the city center." Mojazine is the third Moroccan company to be awarded a lot of this mega-project, after TGCC and Jet Contractors.

While Jet Contractors won lot 6 covering earthworks, civil engineering structures, communications and fencing between Benguérir and Marrakech Palmeraie (60 km) for an amount of 2.1 billion dirhams, TGCC was selected for the lot relating to the works on the Berrechid-Settat axis (51 km) for 2.8 billion dirhams, the publication reports.

The ONCF awarded the four other lots of the Kénitra-Marrakech LGV project to the French GTR (Casablanca bypass–Berrechid on 36 km) for 2.1 billion dirhams and the Chinese CREC 4 (Sidi Ichou–Rabat, 62 km, 3.4 billion dirhams), Shandong Hi-Speed Engineering-Construction (Rabat Agdal–Zénata, 64 km, 4.5 billion dirhams) and CRCC 20 (Settat–Benguérir, 36 km, 2.8 billion dirhams).

Last August, the ONCF signed with the consortium led by the French Egis Rail a contract for project management assistance for an amount of 1.3 billion dirhams, it is recalled. The Kénitra-Marrakech LGV should be operational before the 2030 World Cup that Morocco is organizing jointly with Spain and Portugal.