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The largest project is a high-speed railway from Tangier via Rabat and Casablanca to Marrakech. Also a (passenger) rail connection between Tangier and Tangier MED, the port on the Mediterranean near Tangier, will give passengers arriving by ferry a connection to the main lines. A train will operate every 2 hours between the port and Tangier ...
Al Boraq (Arabic: البُراق, romanized: al-burāq) [3] is a 323-kilometre (201 mi) high-speed rail service between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco.The first of its kind on the African continent, it opened on 15 November 2018 after a decade of planning and construction by ONCF, Morocco's national railway company.
The N2 road is a national road (Route Nationale) in Morocco which connects Tangier in the northwest of the country with Oujda in the Northeast. The major N routes are toll-free roads. The roads can run through cities along the way, unlike the toll-roads with A-numbers - the Moroccan Expressways - that are built around towns.
The Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station (Arabic: محطة الدار البيضاء المسافرين; French: Gare Casa-Voyageurs) is an ONCF (French: Office national des chemins de fer, "Moroccan National Railway") station in the Belvedere neighborhood of Casablanca. The station is served by suburban and long-distance trains.
A Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-800 lands at Atatürk Airport in 2007.. Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco's national airline, [1] was founded in July 1953 () from the merger of Air Maroc and Air Atlas.
The Rabat–Tangier expressway connects Tangier to Fes via Rabat 250 km (155 mi), and Settat via Casablanca 330 km (205 mi) and Tanger-Med port. The Ibn Batouta International Airport (formerly known as Tangier-Boukhalef) is 15 km (9 mi) south-west of the city centre.
While Morocco was a French Protectorate (from 1912 to 1956) tourism was focused on urban areas such as the Mediterranean cities of Tangier and Casablanca. Tangier attracted many writers, such as Edith Wharton, Jack Kerouac, Paul Bowles, and William S. Burroughs. There was a period of beach resort development at places such as Agadir on the ...
In 2004 the airline announced that it would move its head office from Casablanca to the Nouaceur Province, near Mohammed V International Airport. MAP, the official state news agency, said that the construction of the headquarters and a 500-room conference hotel would take 1 year and 6 months. [86]