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Encyclopedia > Transportation in Morocco
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Railways


total: 1,907 km
standard gauge: 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km electrified; 540 km double track)


Railway company: l'Office National des Chemins de Fer (ONCF) [1] (http://www.oncf.org.ma/pratiques/nos-gares/nos-gares.htm).


Railway links to adjacent countries

  • Spain - proposal via undersea tunnel making waves in 2004.
  • Algeria - there is a railway link to Algeria at Oujda, but service is currently suspended.

Highways

total: 57,847 km
paved: 30,254 km (including 529 km of expressways)
unpaved: 27,593 km (1998 est.) Moroccos network of expressways is administered by the state-owned company Autoroutes du Maroc. ...


Pipelines

crude oil 362 km; petroleum products 491 km (abandoned); natural gas 241 km


Ports and harbors

Mediterranean Sea

Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on the northernmost tip of Maghreb, on the Mediterranean coast near the Straits of Gibraltar. ... Melilla, known in Arabic as مليلة, and in Tamazight as Tamlit is a Spanish autonomous city on the coast of eastern Morocco, in North Africa. ...

Atlantic Ocean

View toward the Mediterranean Tangier (in Berber and Arabic Tanja طنچة, in Spanish Tánger and in French Tanger) is a city of northern Morocco with a population of 350,000, or 550,000 including suburbs. ... Hassan II Mosque Casablanca (Arabic: الدار البيضاء, pronounced Dar-al-Baida) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. ... Agadir Agadir Agadir is a city in southwest Morocco. ...

Other

El Jadida, El Jorf Lasfar, Kenitra, Mohammedia, Nador, Rabat, Safi, El Jadida is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in the province of El Jadida. ... Kenitra is a city of Morocco, formerly known as Port Lyautey. ... Mohammedia is a port city located 15 miles northeast of Casablanca. ... Missing image Nador Nador city, northeastern Morocco in the Rif. ... For the Maltese city on Gozo Island which can also be called Rabat, see Victoria, Malta. ... Asfi (french Safi) is a city located in western Morocco, by the Atlantic Ocean. ...


Merchant marine


total: 40 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 218,987 GRT/263,191 DWT
ships by type: cargo 9, chemical tanker 6, container 3, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 3, refrigerated cargo 9, roll-on/roll-off 8, short-sea passenger 1 (1999 est.)


Airports

70 (1999 est.)


Airports - with paved runways


total: 26
over 3,047 m: 10
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 9
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (1999 est.)


Airports - with unpaved runways


total: 44
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 22
under 914 m: 11 (1999 est.)


Heliports

1 (1999 est.)


See Also

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