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Completion of the Central Section of the Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis

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Context and objectives

The “Central Section of Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis” project aims at completing the missing links of the Central Section of the Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis, connecting the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian national motorway networks. The project will provide a continuous motorway corridor from Agadir (Morocco) to Ras Jedir (Tunisian-Libyan border).

 The sections are to be completed by the construction of a dual carriage motorway with at least two lanes running parallel to the Maghreb coast are Oujda (Morocco) – Algerian border (22 Km), and Bou Salem (Tunisia) – Algerian border (80 Km).

In conjunction with the completion of the infrastructure, the Central Maghreb countries are willing to work together in a coordinated manner with the GTMO 5+5 and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), for the management of the axis, and to ensure complete interoperability and a high-quality service that will provide the same standards all along the axis.

The project will improve transport conditions, reducing travel times and the number of accidents.

The project is of strategic importance to the Euro-Mediterranean region as it will strengthen the Trans-Maghreb motorway, which is part of the Trans-Mediterranean Transport Network (TMN-T) and a major Maghreb road corridor.

 

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Key figures

Duration:

2015-22

Beneficiaries:

80M

Total cost:

€670M

Countries:

3

Next Steps

Next steps include the completion of the project design by Morocco and Tunisia, and laying the groundwork for the related fundraising plan.

Promoter

The Central Section of Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis project is promoted by CETMO (Centre d’Etudes des Transports pour la Méditerranée Occidentale) and the Secretariat of the Group of Ministers of Transport of the Western Mediterranean (GTMO 5+5).

The members of the GTMO are transport ministers from ten countries (Algeria, France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia) and the European Commission Directorate General for Energy and Transport.

Key partners

Governments of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Beneficiaries

More than 80 million people from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Key actions

– The Central Section of Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis project will provide a continuous motorway corridor from Agadir (Morocco) to Ras Jedir (Tunisian-Libyan border).

– It will ensure a high-quality service that provides the same standards all along the axis.

– The project will facilitate regional trade, thus improving socio-economic development in the Maghreb region.

Expected Results

The construction of 102 km (22 km in Morocco and 80 km in Tunisia) of motorway of at least two lanes running parallel to the Maghreb coast, which will complete the central section of the trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis, thus linking the major cities of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

More than 80 million people will benefit from improved transport conditions, reduced travel times and reduced number of accidents.

Increased regional trade, and thereby socio-economic development in the region.

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The 7th Conference of Transport Ministers of the Western Mediterranean Countries (5+5 GTMO) congratulated the UfMS for the recently labeled project “Completion of the Central Section of the Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis”
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