Morocco-Spain tunnel: Madrid-Casablanca in 5 hours The tunnel project having to link Punta Paloma, Spain, Punta Malabata, Morocco, of capital importance for the two countries. The tunnel under the strait to connect Spain to Morocco is 38.5 kilometers long, including 27.7 underwater kilometers. This underground passage should connect Punta Paloma, near Tarifa, in Tangier in […]
Paying in dirham on AliExpress is now possible The Moroccan dirham is about to make its debut on AliExpress. Starting next month, the Chinese e-commerce platform will allow its Moroccan customers to pay for their purchases directly in their national currency. A small revolution for consumers in the kingdom, who will thus be able to […]
Morocco-Spain Tunnel: the Germans at work Things are accelerating for the tunnel project to connect Punta Paloma, in Spain, to Punta Malabata, in Morocco. The Spanish Public Study Company for Fixed Communication across the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has entrusted a German company with carrying out the feasibility study for this underwater railway infrastructure. A […]
Morocco will export wagons to Europe and Africa Morocco has great ambitions for the railway sector. While presenting a strategic plan worth a total of 400 billion dirhams to Parliament, Abdessamad Kayouh, Minister of Transport and Logistics, raised the possibility of exporting wagons to European and African markets. here 2040. Export wagons to Europe and […]
Fuels in Morocco: “indecent” margins pointed out In Morocco, fuel distributors have made major profits between the second and third quarter of the year 2024 to the chagrin of motorists. Nine oil companies have increased their profits from the sale of diesel and fuel by 20 % and 11 % respectively, reveals a report by […]
Algerian dates disguised as Tunisian dates in Morocco Morocco consumes more and more Tunisian dates. Last December, the Shereef Kingdom became the leading importer of this fruit, absorbing nearly 20% of Tunisian exports. This commercial success is confirmed by figures from the Tunisian National Observatory of Agriculture. Over the first three months of the 2024/2025 […]
Real estate: the Moroccan tax authorities on alert The control services of the General Directorate of Taxes and the National Financial Intelligence Authority ((ANRF)) are investigating suspicious banking transactions detected in Casablanca and El Jadida. It all started with the detection by the internal control and risk management departments of two banking groups of the […]
Tunisia-Morocco: exports in free fall The year 2024 has proven to be complicated for trade relations between Tunisia and Morocco. Tunisian exports to the kingdom showed a constant decline throughout the year, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics in Tunisia. Although December marked a slight improvement with a decline of 5.9%, the […]
Moroccan hotels are fully booked In 2024, hotels are full in Morocco. Fatim-Zahra Ammor, Minister of Tourism, Crafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy, presented the results. The number of nights of internal tourism in classified hotels reached around 8.5 million in 2024, representing 30% of the total recorded in these establishments, said Fatim-Zahra Ammor, […]
Marjane City: the bet of proximity to counter BIM In Morocco, Marjane, a subsidiary of the royal group Al Mada, has found tactics to compete with the Turkish brand BIM. Marjane is now investing in local distribution to face competition from the Turkish hard discounter BIM. “This competition has particularly impacted the Marjane group, leader […]