French Geopolitologist Frédéric Encel: Investments in Port Infrastructure Reflect Morocco’s Rise as an Emerging Power

Highlighting the strategic nature of the projects inaugurated on Thursday by the Sovereign as part of the restructuring and development program of the Casablanca Port Complex, Mr. Encel emphasized that “this is an illustration that Morocco is an emerging power, especially when infrastructure investments are so large and so modern.”

This major undertaking also reflects “a very shrewd strategic vision at the highest level of the State,” noted the founder of the Geopolitical Encounters of Trouville-sur-Mer, stressing that “the future in commercial terms lies with seas and oceans.”

The French academic also observed that the Greater Maghreb, up to Egypt and West Africa, “does not experience this type of infrastructural progress.”

The projects inaugurated by His Majesty King Mohammed VI as part of the Casablanca Port Complex restructuring and development program aim to strengthen the economic and tourism standing of this metropolis.

They are designed to establish Casablanca as a leading economic and financial hub on the continent, fully open to the international arena.

With an investment of nearly 5 billion dirhams, the projects include the development of a fishing port, the construction of a new shipyard, the creation of a cruise terminal, and the building of an administrative complex bringing together all the stakeholders of the Casablanca Port.

These projects, carried out by the National Ports Agency, reflect the constant will of His Majesty the King to endow the Kingdom’s economic capital with modern, internationally compliant infrastructure, capable of giving lasting momentum to the city’s renewal and responding to the legitimate aspirations of its inhabitants.

Editorial team/le7tv