A ll these projects, in addition to the Morocco-Spain fixed link and the development of the road axes between Tangiers and Lagos and between Rabat and Cairo will help Morocco play its historical role of linking point between European countries, on the one side, and Africa, Maghreb countries and the arab world on the other. O ver a nine-year period, some 10,000 km of rural roads were built at an annual pace of 1,300 km. Every year, they receive nearly 9,000 calls of fleets. They handle some 40 million tons of goods a year. They also receive a fishing fleet of nearly 2,600 vessels with an overall catch of 600,000 tons.
Moroccan fleet operates in free competition with foreign fleet.
It is owned by 15 companies. Four of these are State-owned whereas the others are owned by privade operators. T he Moroccan merchant navy fleet holds the first rank among arab and african maritime transporters, the second rank in the transport of chemical products at the world level and the first ranks in passengers transport at the African level.