Moroccan-French Partnership to Create a Road Transport Show in Casablanca
29 April 2008
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Paris, October 13. The Moroccan Group of Heavy Trucks and Bodywork (GPLC) and the French Federation of Bodywork (FFC) signed a partnership agreement in Paris on Tuesday. This agreement aims to create a Mediterranean trade show for road and urban freight transport in Casablanca.
The agreement, signed by Adil Zaidi and Guy Martin (presidents of GPLC and FFC respectively), in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, Ahmed Réda Chami, stipulates that this biennial show, called "SOLUTRANS Méditerranée," will hold its first edition in June 2011 in Casablanca.
The FFC owns and organizes the SOLUTRANS road and urban freight transport show, held since 1988 in Lyon (France). It has significant experience and knowledge in organizing such exhibitions.
Beyond the Casablanca show project, the agreement aims to create synergy between the two partners in the areas of training, safety standards, and relations between Moroccan and French industrialists.
According to FFC president Guy Martin, this partnership agreement illustrates the "enormous potential" between Morocco and France in this field. "We have had excellent contacts at the ministerial level, the federation level, and the industrial level," he said in a statement to the MAP.
For Chafik Rachadi, member of parliament and vice-president of the GPLC, the agreement is the culmination of efforts made by the Moroccan group over the past year. It aims to create "synergy between the two parties, following an action plan on the basis of which we will work for the next three years with a strategic vision," he added to the MAP.
Regarding safety standards, the agreement provides for the two parties to jointly analyze standardization, regulation, and approval issues. The FFC will make available to the GPLC its experience in this area and its contacts with French, and even European, institutional bodies.
In the field of training, the FFC can contribute to a study of the training needs of Moroccan companies that the GPLC plans to carry out. Based on the results of this study, the FFC and GPLC will work together to set up training programs that meet the needs of companies.
The two partners also agreed to create commercial and technological links between French and Moroccan companies, which are then responsible for developing exchanges and partnerships.
Finally, the agreement provides for the FFC and GPLC to share their statistical analyses and forward-looking studies and to determine the axes of industrial and commercial development for the companies that are members of their organizations.
Published October 13, 2009
Posted online October 15, 2009
aufaitmaroc.com
The agreement, signed by Adil Zaidi and Guy Martin (presidents of GPLC and FFC respectively), in the presence of the Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, Ahmed Réda Chami, stipulates that this biennial show, called "SOLUTRANS Méditerranée," will hold its first edition in June 2011 in Casablanca.
The FFC owns and organizes the SOLUTRANS road and urban freight transport show, held since 1988 in Lyon (France). It has significant experience and knowledge in organizing such exhibitions.
Beyond the Casablanca show project, the agreement aims to create synergy between the two partners in the areas of training, safety standards, and relations between Moroccan and French industrialists.
According to FFC president Guy Martin, this partnership agreement illustrates the "enormous potential" between Morocco and France in this field. "We have had excellent contacts at the ministerial level, the federation level, and the industrial level," he said in a statement to the MAP.
For Chafik Rachadi, member of parliament and vice-president of the GPLC, the agreement is the culmination of efforts made by the Moroccan group over the past year. It aims to create "synergy between the two parties, following an action plan on the basis of which we will work for the next three years with a strategic vision," he added to the MAP.
Regarding safety standards, the agreement provides for the two parties to jointly analyze standardization, regulation, and approval issues. The FFC will make available to the GPLC its experience in this area and its contacts with French, and even European, institutional bodies.
In the field of training, the FFC can contribute to a study of the training needs of Moroccan companies that the GPLC plans to carry out. Based on the results of this study, the FFC and GPLC will work together to set up training programs that meet the needs of companies.
The two partners also agreed to create commercial and technological links between French and Moroccan companies, which are then responsible for developing exchanges and partnerships.
Finally, the agreement provides for the FFC and GPLC to share their statistical analyses and forward-looking studies and to determine the axes of industrial and commercial development for the companies that are members of their organizations.
Published October 13, 2009
Posted online October 15, 2009
aufaitmaroc.com
