More than $110 million earmarked for improving Casablanca port equipment, services

More than $ 110 million (1.10 billion DH) have been earmarked for consolidating the equipment and improving the services of the Casablanca port over the 1999-2003 period.

The amount will finance the rehabilitation and extension of port facilities and equipment and the purchase of new performing equipment to ease procedures at the port.

Traffic at the Casablanca port which ensures nearly 40 % of port traffic nationwide went up from 14.5 million tons in 1993 to 20 million tons in 1999.