Morocco is reaching a new milestone in the deployment of the national logistics strategy, with the acceleration of the pace of development of logistics zones. In the short term, three projects will be launched in Casablanca, Kenitra and Fez, covering a total area of 147 hectares and an investment exceeding one billion dirhams.

The announcement was made by Mohamed Abdeljalil, Minister of Transport and Logistics, during the opening of the 2024 edition of the Logismed exhibition, this Tuesday, May 7 in Casablanca. “A priority program has been developed with ten logistics zone projects on privileged geographical sites in terms of connectivity, and which will extend over a total area of approximately 750 hectares by 2028,” the minister said.

This program provides for the launch, from this year 2024, of the first three projects in Casablanca (70 hectares), Kenitra (45 hectares) and Fez (32 hectares), totaling a planned investment of more than one billion dirhams.

To this end, a memorandum of understanding was signed on April 9 between the Moroccan Logistics Development Agency (AMDL), CDG Développement and MedZ in order to pool technical and financial resources for successful implementation. of this program.

The minister referred to the results of a recently published survey on existing logistics real estate, which estimated its total surface area at around 20 million m2, characterized by a sparse spatial distribution, mainly made up of small warehouses, "which limits the positive effects on competitiveness that massification, pooling and intermodality can offer.

To remedy this, continues the minister, the priority program for logistics zones aims, on the one hand, to concentrate the logistics offer to achieve the desired massification and, on the other hand, to increase capacities in the outskirts of metropolises to allow the development of e-commerce and the emergence of adapted urban logistics.

Mohamed Abdeljalil highlighted the pilot project currently being completed for the Aït Melloul logistics zone, in the province of Agadir, the marketing of which should be launched before the end of the year.

Positioned on the N1 expressway south of Aït Melloul, this zone aims to offer logistics land at competitive prices to accommodate investors wishing to develop logistics real estate meeting their own needs or the needs of economic operators of the region.

Ayoub Khattabi le360