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Morocco Plans High-Speed Rail Extension to Agadir, Studies to Take Years
Wednesday 6 November 2019, by
In response to the oral questions of deputies on the project to extend the Tangier-Casablanca High-Speed Line southward to Agadir, 460 kilometers further south, Abdelkader Amara, Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, declared on Monday, October 4, that the technical and detailed studies "will take years".
Abdelkader Amara was responding to an oral question from the Constitutional Assembly Group on the progress of the project to extend the Tangier-Casablanca High-Speed Line to Agadir.
In this regard, he stated that the technical studies of the High-Speed Train (HST) to connect Marrakech to Agadir by rail "will take years", reports Hespress.
He also stated that "there is a memorandum of understanding with a foreign country" for the Marrakech-Agadir section. This is a memorandum signed with a French company.
"The scale of the project, particularly in its "Studies and Forecasts" component, requires discretion in the work," confides a source close to the Minister.
According to Abdelkader Amara’s explanations, this major project will connect the city of Agadir to the national rail network for the first time. This is part of the "2040 rail program".
"But again, we don’t have any precise data yet," the Minister said.
"We are in the technical and detailed study phase which can take several years. I’m telling you this so that the deputies stop asking us about the progress of the project," concluded Minister Amara.