Minister of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy highlighted on Friday in Skhirat the importance of promoting local manufacturing and developing the “truck and industrial bodywork” ecosystem.
“It is imperative to promote local manufacturing and develop this ecosystem as soon as possible and make it competitive in the Kingdom,” Elalamy stated during a meeting at the headquarters of the Irizar Maroc industrial unit, responsible for the production of buses serving the city of Casablanca.
“We have considerable economic potential and highly qualified skills offering this sector advantages allowing it to become one of the most competitive in the industrial sector,” he added.
For his part, Director of Irizar Maroc Mohammed Abouchane noted that this meeting is part of the delivery of the second batch of buses to Casablanca. The vehicles were designed in Morocco with 100% Moroccan capacity.
As for Adil Zaidi, president of the Moroccan Grouping of Heavy Goods Vehicles and Bodywork (GPLC), he said that thanks to the launch of this ecosystem, Morocco will be able to have a set of bodywork equipment manufacturers and subcontractors, capable of ensuring up to 85% of the bus production in the Kingdom.
The 18 major world manufacturers are represented in Morocco through an ecosystem mustering 85 manufacturing units supported by the Ministry of Industry. This ecosystem currently represents a turnover of 11 billion dirhams/year and employs 8,000 people.
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