Moroccan railways to be connected to European and Arab networks

Morocco announced recently projects to link its railway networks to those of Europe and other Arab countries.

Transport and merchant navy minister, Abdeslam Znined, told a meeting in Tehran on "sharing railway experiences" held from Jan.29 to 31, the project is dictated by Morocco's ambitions to dialogue between cultures and civilizations.

He added the International Railways Union has set up a task group to study the technical feasibility of three trans-Mediterranean corridors linking Tangiers (northern Morocco), Algiers and Tangiers to Spain, France and Italy, respectively.

These corridors will, in their turn, will be linked to the Maghreban one (Casablanca, Algiers and Tunis), he added.