Construction sector accounts for more than 6% of GDP in Morocco

With sales of more than 4 billion dollars a year, the construction sector in Morocco accounts for more than 6% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides over 300,000 direct jobs, revealed, here Monday, the Secretary General of the Moroccan Center of Exports Promotion (CMPE).

Ali El Alaoui, who is leading a delegation of construction companies to the 24th International Construction showcase "Batimat" being held in Paris, said that the construction sector with its 62,000 production units all over Morocco, ambitions to conquer the European market in the perspective of the free trade agreement between Morocco and the European Union, after having conquered African and Arab markets.