The delegatee Alsa has placed an order for 500 urban buses with Daimler for the next fifteen years, in order to ensure the transport of the inhabitants of Casablanca . But behind this order, there are unspoken things.
The Alsa Al Baida company will receive and put into service the first wave of new buses in Casablanca and its surroundings, starting next September.
The city of Casablanca will have to be patient until February for the final delivery of the 400 used buses promised by Alsa. For now, about a hundred buses are already at the port of the city, according to an authorized source.
The process of acquiring 350 latest generation buses has just been launched by Alsa Al Baida. The new management company in the transport sector is counting on several hundred used buses imported from Europe to facilitate the movement of Casablancans.
The contract for the acquisition of 700 new buses was canceled on Thursday, November 14, 2019, due to the excessive cost of the price proposals. The Intercommunal Cooperation Establishment (ECI) now in charge of the file wants to entrust it to Alsa Al Baïda, a subsidiary of Alsa Maroc.
The Spanish company Alsa is gradually establishing itself in Morocco. It now controls several major cities including Casablanca and Rabat, and transports some 405 million passengers per year.
Urban public transport by bus will be managed by the company, Alsa Maroc, on the territory of the 18 municipalities of Greater Casablanca. It signed a delegation of management contract on Thursday with the Intercommunal Cooperation Establishment (ECI) and Al Baïda.
The Spanish Alsa is the new operator of the bus network in Casablanca. The new concessionaire will face several challenges.
Three young people from Salé were sentenced last Thursday to eight months in prison for calling on social networks to damage the new buses in the capital, operated by the Alsa company, by tagging "Salé", the name of the city, instead of "Rabat".
Alsa will soon make its entry into the urban landscape of the economic capital. The Spanish transport company has indeed won the tender for the delegated management of the urban transport service in Casablanca.
The verdict has been handed down. The man prosecuted by the justice system for having ransacked the Alsa bus was sentenced to three years of firm imprisonment. The authorities intend to deal with the utmost firmness with all those who will be guilty of acts of vandalism and destruction on the new buses put into service.
The Alsa-City bus group, the delegated manager of urban bus transportation in Rabat-Salé-Témara, intends to create 1,750 direct jobs in the very near future. This job creation will take shape after the commissioning of its fleet of vehicles.