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Morocco Transportation
More to come, including contacts and links.

Airports: 69
Airports - with paved runways: 26
Heliports: 1

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

Highways: total: 57,847 km ; aved: 30,254 km
(including 327 km of expressways); , unpaved: 27,593 km

Ports and Harbors: Agadir, El Jadida, Casablanca, El Jorf Lasfar, Kenitra, Mohammedia, Nador, Rabat, Safi, Tangier; also Spanish-controlled Ceuta and Melilla

 

Morocco Communications

Radio broadcast stations: AM 27, FM 25,
shortwave 6, Radios: 6.64 million

Television broadcast stations: 35 (plus 66 repeaters), Televisions: 3.1 million

Internet country code: .ma

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 8 (2000)

Internet users: 120,000 (1999)


Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system with all important capabilities; however density is low with only 4.6 main lines available for each 100 persons domestic: good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and microwave radio relay links; Internet available but expensive; principal switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs microwave radio relay

International: 7 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria; participant in Medarabtel; fiber-optic cable link from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia (1998)

 

Africa Travel Association
347 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Sixth Cultural and Ecotourism Symposium Fez, Morocco
December 8 through December 13, 2002

africatravelasso@aol.com
(212) 447-1926

 


Photo Credits: Royal Air Maroc, Boeing Aircraft Company

Photo Credits: Sheraton Fes, Morocco