
Moroccan Phosphate Giant OCP Launches $37 Million Football Development Subsidiary
The competent Moroccan authorities have just authorized the OCP group to create a new subsidiary dedicated to the development of football.

The competent Moroccan authorities have just authorized the OCP group to create a new subsidiary dedicated to the development of football.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has significantly reduced countervailing duties on imports of Moroccan phosphate fertilizers. This decision represents a victory for the Moroccan giant OCP, but a disappointment for the American company Mosaic, which has always fought its Moroccan competitor.

While the United States International Trade Court ordered the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on September 19 to re-evaluate its decision regarding tariffs on phosphates and conduct a new analysis of the situation within seven months, Republican lawmakers from Florida are calling for maintaining tariffs on imports of Moroccan fertilizers.

Morocco holds 70% of the world’s phosphate reserves, a mineral used to produce food fertilizers. Enough to make the kingdom a guarantor of global food security.

On the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank being held in Marrakech, the OCP group has secured a significant loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for the construction of two solar power plants to enable it to increase its production of low-carbon fertilizers.

The American fertilizer group Mosaic could lose its battle against the Moroccan giant OCP, which had been imposed a countervailing duty of 19%.

Morocco’s phosphate reserves could make it a global uranium giant. This is the result of a reflection nourished by Michaël Tanchum, a professor-researcher at the Middle-East Institute, who also teaches at the University of Navarra and is a Senior Fellow at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES).

A huge underground reserve of high-quality phosphorite has been discovered in Norway, becoming the largest deposit of its kind in the world, according to the company that exploits its resources. Morocco therefore has a serious competitor on the international level.

The Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) confirms that it has successfully acquired 50% of the capital of the Spanish company GlobalFeed. This transaction was carried out in partnership with the fertilizer company Fertinagro Biotech, also based in Spain.

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves announced that Morocco will make a major fertilizer donation to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

OCP’s ambitious plan to power all of its industrial facilities with green energy by 2027 is taking shape. The Moroccan fertilizer giant has secured major financing.

The year 2022 was prosperous for the OCP Group with performance well beyond that recorded in 2021, with a turnover of 114.6 billion dirhams.