On Tuesday, during the oral questions session of the House of Councillors, Amara explained that the ministry had brought the matter to Mohammed VI Fund for Investment, and is also negotiating with a number of international partners ways to execute the two projects, indicating that there are countries that have shown their willingness to contribute to financing these projects.

Amara pointed out that it is difficult for the state budget to bear the financing of these projects, so we are trying to adopt new forms of investment based on the partnership between the public and private sectors in order to reduce the burden on the state budget, noting that the projects that have been completed in recent years have cost the state 70 billion Dirhams.

The royal speech, on the occasion of the forty-fourth anniversary of the Green March 2019, stressed the “vitality” and “strategy” of the project to connect the southern provinces with railways, pointing to the importance of this “new railway” that will contribute to breaking the isolation from these areas and promoting development Moving the economy, especially in the field of transporting people and goods, export support, tourism, and other economic activities.

King Mohammed VI affirmed that “this line will constitute a lever to create many job opportunities, not only in the Sous region, but also in all neighboring regions,” stressing that “the Souss-Massa region should be an economic center linking North and South Morocco, from Tangier in the north, and Oujda in the east, to our desert regions

The royal speech also stressed the need for Morocco to be based on harmonious and integrated bodies that benefit on an equal footing from the infrastructure, and from the major projects that should benefit all parties.

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The Kingdom is cited among customers interested in this new generation of environmentally friendly transport.

Morocco will probably be part of countries with hydrails. French news outlet “Le Monde” revealed the information a few days ago by announcing the first orders for hydrogen trains. According to Brahim Soua, Vice-President of the regional rolling stock platform at Alstom, “potential customers have come forward in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, and Morocco.”

It should be noted that the trains in question use carbon-free technology, making it possible to produce electricity on board, using a fuel cell powered by a hydrogen tank (H2).

Another advantage is that they are equipped with “dual-mode” trainsets. However, these have the capacity to connect to the catenaries of electrified railway tracks.

Nonetheless, Morocco is still one of Alstom’s major customers. The French company had supplied the high-speed trains of the National Railways Office (ONCF), making Morocco one of the few countries in the world to offer TGV travel on its rail network. Alstom also supplies the largest cities in the Kingdom such as Rabat and Casablanca with tram trains.

Alstom also has a number of industrial units in Morocco; the unit of Fez is the one responsible for producing cables for railway applications as well as that of the electrical boxes which are supplied to its European factories, then mounted on trains exported to the whole world.

It is still unknown whether the contacts announced on Alstom’s side with the Moroccan customer will reach a final agreement; Hydrogen trains are considered a revolution in the world of transport, but they are costly, at least for now.

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