lundi 26 octobre 2009

Une magnifique illustration du dynamisme de l'économie marocaine

Le programme de revitalisation urbaine, mené sous l'impulsion de S.M. le Roi Mohammed VI, et la réalisation du port Tanger-Med, sont une magnifique illustration du dynamisme de l'économie marocaine et de la qualité de sa gouvernance, a affirmé le vice-président de la Banque européenne d'investissement (BEI), Philippe de Fontaine Vive.







Intervenant en marge de la 3e édition du symposium Euromed-Capital Forum, tenu vendredi et samedi à Tanger, M. De Fontaine Vive a exprimé sa satisfaction pour la participation de la BEI à Tanger-Med ainsi qu'à la plate-forme de production automobile Renault, dont les travaux de construction débuteront très prochainement.

Ces deux exemples de chantiers d'envergure méritent d'être salués, du fait qu'ils montrent la voie aux pays de la rive sud de la Méditerranée, notamment en ce contexte de crise économique mondiale, a-t-il ajouté.

Les pays de la région méditerranéenne ont, en effet, un formidable effort d'investissement à mener pour assurer la croissance, soit près de 300 milliards d'euros sur 20 ans, a précisé M. De Fontaine Vive.

Ce montant est nécessaire non seulement pour transformer en atout le défi d'une démographie vigoureuse, mais aussi pour améliorer les équipements de développement socio-économique, a-t-il relevé.

Seule la mobilisation du capital privé pourra permettre le financement et les transferts de technologies nécessaires à ces besoins, a-t-il affirmé, soulignant que le capital-investissement constitue un levier particulièrement adapté à ce sujet.

Pour sa part, le président de l'Association Euromed-Capital Forum, organisatrice de cette manifestation, M. Dominique Nouvellet, s'est félicité du succès de cette 3e édition du Forum, qui a connu la participation de 250 experts, hommes d'affaires et responsables venant de 14 pays du pourtour méditerranéen.

Le choix du Maroc pour accueillir ce symposium, spécialisé dans le métier du capital-investissement, s'explique par l'existence d'une «vraie industrie de capital-investissement» dans le Royaume, qui a attiré, à titre d'exemple, près de 60% des montants investis par le fonds d'investissement méditerranéen Averroès Finance.

Créée en 2005, Euromed-Capital Forum est une association sans but lucratif siégeant à Lyon (France). Son objectif est la promotion des échanges d'information entre les différents acteurs et partenaires du capital-investissement dans la région euro-méditerranéenne, les investisseurs, les entrepreneurs et les organisations internationales.

Source :  MAP

dimanche 25 octobre 2009

Algeciras Bay on the rise again

The Port of Algeciras Bay has started to return positive growth figures once more.

Figures for Algeciras Bay - like the kites - are rising

June’s total throughput saw an upward trend 3.8%, (6.2m tonnes of cargo).
The lion’s share of this recovery can be put down to the general cargo increase of 15.5% plus a container throughput rise of 10% to 285,765 teu.
At the same time, ro-ro traffic on the lines covering the Strait (Algeciras-Ceuta and Algeciras-Tangiers/Tanger Med) showed a similar trend for the first of the summer months, with 17,163 units making the crossing (an upward swing of 7%).
In all, the Port of Algeciras Bay has brought the first half of 2009 to a close with accumulated throughput of 33.8m tonnes (down by 11.9%).
The port’s board has also approved the tender for the last phase of port expansion work on Isla Verde Exterior, an investment of €41m ($58.5m) financed in conjunction with EU funds. This last phase involves the last of the levelled areas – a 14-hectare surface – of Phase B on Isla Verde Exterior and the completion of the Southern Enclosure.

Source : Port Strategy

dimanche 11 octobre 2009

MEDITERRANEAN: ANIMA, 25 'NICHE' MARKETS TO EXPLOIT


(by Severine Kittler) (ANSAmed) - MARSEILLE - From aromatic plants and medicines to postal services, from biotechnology to the textile industry, from social housing to eco-tourism: there are 25 niche markets with strong development potential in the Mediterranean countries identified by the Invest in Med programme presented today in Marseille during Mediterranean Economy Week. These new markets, as yet underdeveloped overall in the countries in the region, and which the absence of is penalizing the growth of 15 priority sectors selected by Invest in Med for its launch in April 2008, to orient investments in nine countries (Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia). In a year and a half of the programme, co financed by the European Commission and managed by Anima Investment Network, spent five of the 12 million euros available for the three year period 2008-2011 in the sectors agro-industrial, textiles, information technology and telecommunications, water and waste management, renewal energy sources and the pharmaceutical industry. And it is exactly during the realization of the projects, in close contact with the entrepreneurial reality, particularly locally, in the countries, that the lack of some sub-sectors was discovered, and which appear essential for the complete development of the various sectors. Anima decided therefore to investigate deeper, contacting the foreign investors active in the Med countries and those responsible for the 36 initiatives financed by Invest in Med, and so identified the 25 niche markets that could, if developed in the various countries, give a boost to the economic future of the region. The niches include environmental studies (Algeria, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon); wind power (Morocco, Egypt, Turkey); sustainable building (Morocco with Tanger Med, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia); the treatment of special waste (Jordan, Egypt); eco-tourism and film tourism (Turkey with the Noor television series which has brought tourists to Istanbul, or even Ouarzazate, nicknamed Morocco's Hollywood); the textile industry producing fibre for technical or medical use (already developed in Jordan and Israel); and veterinary pharmaceutical products (Israel). Invest in Med has the markets' pulse: the regions' economic reality, the legislative outlook, the paths to take, contacts, tries to furnish business and socio-economic entities with all the useful information to be able to act quickly and invest where there is a need. ''We have a very strong impact'', an army made up of more than 400 private and public entities and organism in all the Mediterranean countries, even on a regional level'', explained Invest in Med director Emmanuel Noutary, who believes that ''this patrimony should not be lost''. A statement made during the discussion on the creation of the next European-Mediterranean agency for SMEs assigned to Italy and Spain as part of the Union of the Mediterranean. Some, it emerging during the round table discussion organized today by Medalliance in Marseille, are thinking of a centralized organisation, while others think it would be better to confederate all the existing organisms in Marseille, Milan, Barcelona, in the new agency to take advantage of their experience. ''The important thing is not the agency, but what it does'', stressed Julien Aubert, from UPM. ''It's not the label, but what is in the bottle'', echoed Philippe de Fontaine Vive, vice president of the European Investment Bank, adding, ''we have to do thing in the best way, because one thing is certain, the liquidity to invest in the Mediterranean is there''. (ANSAmed).

mercredi 7 octobre 2009

Tanger-Med II to boost Moroccan boxes

The Oxford Business Group, a London-based think tank, believes that the decision to go ahead with the Tanger-Med II project in Morocco suggests that there is significant potential in the country for future development.
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The port, which will have a capacity of 8m teu by 2015, will become one of the most important container terminals in the world.

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