Morocco-Spain Undersea Rail Tunnel Project Advances Ahead of 2030 World Cup

The new studies carried out reassure about the possibility of establishing a rail connection under the strait between Casablanca in Morocco and Madrid in Spain, said Secegsa, adding that the project could be completed in five years. The project, launched since the 1980s, was reactivated last February during the Spanish-Moroccan summit. The Spanish Minister of Transport, Raquel Sanchez, and her Moroccan counterpart, Nizar Baraka, held a session in April to validate the studies carried out since 2009 by Secegsa and SNED, the Moroccan study company, recalls El Faro de Ceuta.

After this meeting, the two parties agreed to relaunch the joint commission responsible for studying this project aimed at establishing a fixed connection between Africa and Europe. The tunnel under the strait is a strategic project for Morocco and Spain within the framework of the new roadmap for their relations, adopted in April 2022 in Rabat by President Pedro Sanchez and King Mohammed VI.