Thanks to the current health crisis, economic intelligence is emerging as a tool for economic performance and a factor of competitiveness for Morocco. Go or perish, the time when it was considered a luxury is over.
The Directorate of Ports and the Maritime Public Domain of the Moroccan Ministry of Equipment has just launched the call for tenders, with pre-selection, for the construction work of the strategic Atlantique Dakhla port. The opening of the bids is scheduled for January 21, 2021 at 10 a.m. in Rabat.
The Delegate Minister in charge of Moroccans Living Abroad (MREs), Nezha El Ouafi, announced the establishment by her department of a national program project to identify Moroccan skills residing abroad, in order to build a bank of Moroccan skills by 2030.
The investments of over 20 billion DH received in the last ten months confirm the attractiveness of the Marrakech-Safi region.
Although the health crisis is raging, the automotive sector continues to develop in Tanger Med. Nearly half a dozen new equipment manufacturers have just set up their businesses in this export-oriented industrial platform.
Morocco is strengthening its anti-dumping measures regarding Danish exports of insulin to Morocco. After nearly a year of investigations, the Sothema laboratory has obtained satisfaction from the Ministry of Industry, Trade, Green Economy and Digital.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) presented its roadmap for the recovery of tourism. This was during a webinar organized on Tuesday in London.
Air Algérie is struggling, notes the Algerian president. As a solution, Abdelmadjid Tebboune wants a change in the management of the company, in order to make it competitive internationally, particularly vis-à-vis Royal Air Maroc.
The battle to relaunch tourism in Morocco is being waged on two fronts, domestic and international. An international call for tenders has been launched, and three global communication agencies are working on the project and will submit their work in mid-October.
Going to a new lockdown at this time of resurgence of the crisis is not feasible. This would be dramatic for the Moroccan economy, stresses Chakib Alj, president of the CGEM, who insists on prevention to avoid this catastrophic scenario.
For a few days now and in certain regions of the Kingdom, you have to pay up to 20 dirhams to take a kilogram of chicken. An increase that the president of the Interprofessional Federation of the Poultry Sector (FISA), Youssef Alaoui, attributes to the crisis facing the sector during this pandemic period.
Due to the combined effects of the pandemic and the drop in production, fruit and vegetable prices are soaring in the Kingdom, particularly in Casablanca.