مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Trade liberalization of harbor sector in Morocco: From the managing to governance rules

Abstract :

The economic and social changes experienced by Morocco for years and who are motivated by internal development’s requirements, and by commitments related to free trade agreements (FTAs) and also by the new context of trade’s globalization, which forced public authorities to an engagement to lunch a new process to upgrade the entire country’s economy. In this context, Morocco has taken an engagement to implement sensitive measures to contribute to the reinforcement and to modernizing the country s infrastructures. The liberalization of harbor sector had stared since 2006, in this way. The objectives of this reform are varied because they meet both the need to raise the level of competitiveness of Moroccan ports with international ‘standard’s adapting harbor supply services to traffic demand and make it available to economics’ operators , national companies, infrastructures, efficient equipment’s to improve their own competitiveness. The whole, as it is asserted, Aim at reaching a more important goal: The performance of the harbour places (squares). So when we speak about the Moroccan harbour sector one number of reports are imperative: - Morocco in more than 3500 km of coast. -The Morocco -Algerian borders are closed. -The borders Morocco -Mauritanian do not offer a big potential in term of commercial transaction. -Almost all of the foreign trade passes in transit by ports (bearings): approximately 98 % of the outer (foreign) exchanges. - Very important investments were reserved during the last twenty years of the last century to improve and diversify the harbor facilities. The liberalization of the harbour sector also has to arise a key objective that is the outsourcing of services which were historically lent under administrative control. the support of the harbor’s activities by private participants should stay a means at the disposal of public authorities to realize the general interest’s objectives. The Major Sectors which we shall try to handle, by reviewing the Moroccan experiences, in this research’s work are: - The history of the harbour sector’s reform in Morocco. -The implementation of the harbor’s reform in Morocco. - The implications of the new style of governance on the administrative, financial systems and on the foreign trade. -The limits of the current situation. - The Perspectives of evolution of current mode of governance related to Moroccan harbour