These projects created some 6,624 jobs during the first six months of the current year, an increase of 55% compared to the same period of the previous year, said the Regional Investment Center (CRI) Marrakech- Safi in a press release, noting that these figures “confirm the recovery dynamic observed since the start of the year”.
The nature and sectors concerned by these projects also show the diversification of the regional socio-economic fabric, which reinforces the 3R strategy launched by the wali of the Marrakech-Safi region, Mr. Karim Kassi-Lahlou, from the start of the pandemic: Resilience, Recovery, Reinvention”, we read in the press release.
And the same source continues that beyond the tourism projects which consolidate the region’s leadership in this sector (38%), it is the industry which is doing well today, with 34% of projects approved, for an amount of MAD 1.64 billion and 2,681 jobs created.
“This result is the result of a proactive policy of revitalizing industrial land, in particular through the recovery of undeveloped lots in the region’s industrial parks and the establishment of new, more engaging specifications,” explained the CRI-MS.
This dynamic is also seen at the level of major structuring projects, the same source explains, noting that regarding private investment, the CRUI has favorably treated two investment agreements totaling MAD 477 million since the start of the year. and 320 jobs.
Public investment is not left out. adds the same source, which explains that “supported by the Regional Council, two flagship projects whose technical studies have already been launched: the Tamensourt technological park and the agropole and wholesale market of Sidi Bouathmane. Two flagship projects for two industrial and logistics competitiveness clusters in Greater Marrakech.
This involvement of elected officials and regional authorities in the establishment of a coherent and competitive industrial and logistical offer is noted in all the provinces, particularly at the level of the Municipality of Khatazakane in Safi, and Douar Laarab in Essaouira, where the Regional Council has just secured the land intended to accommodate these new new generation industrial and logistics platforms, in accordance with the guidelines of the Regional Territorial Development Plan SRAT, wishes to note the CRI-MS.
It should be remembered that the Unified Regional Investment Commission has held, under the presidency of the wali of the Marrakech-Safi Region, forty meetings since January 1, or more than once a week.