Rabat, (EFE).- A new commercial line will connect the port of Casablanca (Morocco) with the Chinese region of Sichuan every week by train and shipreported the director of the port of the Moroccan city, Anouar Harrak, during the inauguration ceremony.
Speaking to Aujourd’hui le Maroc at the event, held in the port of Casablanca itself, Harrak stated that it is “birth of one new line within the framework of the trade relations with Chinarelationships that are part of a very important dynamism and that we want to accelerate”.
Harrak indicated that it is a line weekly “multimodal” for containerswho will travel the road from the capital of the Chinese province, Chenduby railway to Europespecifically to the German city of Hamburgand then from there by sea to Casablanca.
The director of the Moroccan port added that this infrastructure plays an important role in the commercial exchange With all African continentsince it is open to 95 international ports.
In the case of Chinaassured that the Casablanca port registers a exchange with this country of 1.5 million tons per year of goods in container traffic.
The event in the port of Casablanca coincides with the announcement that the Chinese group Gotion High-Tech and the Government of Morocco they signed a agreement for create in Kenitra (north of Rabat) a gigafactory aimed at manufacturing batteries for electric cars, with an investment of 12.8 billion dirhams (1.19 billion euros).
This investment will allow the creation of 17,000 direct jobs, indirect and inducedof which 2,300 They will be jobs high qualification. EFE mt/may
