Casablanca-Béni Mellal railway line: ONCF launches a call for tenders

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The National Railways Office (ONCF) has just launched a call for tenders for the preliminary design studies of the rail service to link the town of Oued Zem to the province of Béni Mellal.

These studies concern the doubling and rectification of the route between Khouribga and Oued Zem as well as the engineering structures to be put in place to replace the level crossings between Sidi el Aidi and Oued Zem, we read in the call for tenders published on the Office’s website.

According to ONCF data, the estimated cost of carrying out these preliminary studies is around 38 million dirhams, while the opening of tenders will take place in Rabat on September 19.

The launch of these studies comes following the recent meeting of the Wali of the Beni Mellal-Khenifra region Khatib El Hebil with the Director General of the National Railways Office on a set of points related to the construction of the railway line that will link Beni Mellal to Casablanca via the province of Khouribga.

A flagship project in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region, this railway line will have very positive socio-economic repercussions on the region and its inhabitants in addition to its key role in shortening distances between the region and the cities of Casablanca and Rabat.