Tangier hosts 4th edition of 'Industry Meeting Days Morocco'

The 4th edition of “Industry Meeting Days Morocco” kicked off Friday in Tangier, in the presence of an audience of experts, institutions, academics and industrialists from Morocco and abroad.

Organized by Industrie du Maroc Magazine, under the aegis of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, this event aims to create a synergy between public authorities and stakeholders of the industrial sector around the Industrial Sovereignty.

This event, placed under the theme “Industrial, energy, health and food sovereignty for the development of territories, investment and employment” also aims to mobilize public authorities, as well as actors and territorial, industrial and social decision-makers in a forum for consultation to draw the contours of an adequate and effective declination of new national priorities of the industrial sector.

Speaking on this occasion, Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, stressed that industrial sovereignty is a strategic issue for Morocco, in a context of tough international competition, noting that the Kingdom, under the enlightened leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, has experienced, for 20 years, a succession of industrial strategies that have laid the foundations of modern industrial Morocco and position the country as a competitive hub at the regional level.

For his part, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, said that the industrial dynamics of Morocco is an exception on a global scale, given the path taken by the national industry, since the industrial actors have joined the vision of the state that has evolved over time, despite the difficulties associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, and have contributed to maintaining social peace in the country, through the preservation of jobs.

President of the Council of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, Omar Moro, said that industrial sovereignty is not only a strategic policy of Morocco, initiated and led by the Sovereign, but a challenge to enable the country to rise to the rank of great nations.

As for Hicham Rahioui, president of Industry Meeting Days and president-founder of Industrie du Maroc Magazine, he highlighted the importance of this event, which has become an essential meeting place for industrialists, public and private decision-makers, as well as institutions, researchers, academics and students, noting that it is an opportunity to examine ways to create an integrated national system for food, health, and energy sovereignty.

In the same vein, vice-president of the Moroccan Employers’ Association (CGEM), Mohamed Bachiri, emphasized the importance of promoting the economic and industrial sovereignty of the country, in order to strengthen social peace and reclaim the industrial value chains.

For her part, the country representative of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Morocco, Sanae Lahlou, stressed the need to regain industrial sovereignty to enable nation-states to better prepare for various exogenous shocks, noting that this sovereignty must be built around new industrial normality, which should be positioned around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.