Moroccan automotive production is gradually approaching 400,000 units
- The volume of Moroccan automotive production (VP + VU) is based on only Renault, since it is currently the only manufacturer producing in the country, pending the start of PSA group production next year.
- While the volume of automobile production was close to zero in 2005, it has increased sharply since the start of production at the Renault Tangier plant in 2012 calibrated to manufacture 340,000 vehicles per year. Prior to this date, the country's automobile production was carried out only at the Renault site in Casablanca,( which still exists.)
- In 2017, the volume produced in Tangiers reached 300,000 units, approaching its maximum capacity. As for the Casablanca factory, it produced 76,000 units, the total of the two sites thus reaching 376,000 units.
- This volume is already higher than that of Belgian production and close to that of Swedish production. It is well above that of Portuguese and Dutch production combined. In 2017, Renault's two Moroccan sites exported more than 300,000 cars from Morocco (including 200,000 to Europe).
- However, it should not increase much in the next few years. Indeed, the growth of Moroccan automobile production will be mainly due to the start up and ramp-up of the PSA site in Tangier, which should be completed in 2019 (capacity set at 100,000 vehicles per year).
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