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GEFCO has opened a center in Algeria
the field automotive is in strong increase in the North African nation
December 11, 2014
with the scope to manage the distribution of new vehicles for concessionaires PSA Peugeot Citroën, with an enlivened volume that second the forecasts will grow from 90.000 to 105.000 vehicles within the end of 2014. GEFCO Algeria will manage moreover, for own industrial customers, the Mediterranean flows overseas between Algeria, Countries and China.
The French logistic group has evidenced that the Algerian field automotive is in strong increase, with the sales of the new vehicles that have touched the 430,000 units in 2013, with an increment of 20.6% respect from 2012, and that, placed to according to place in the continent African, the Algerian market automotive is one of the more promising to the world.
Moreover GEFCO has emphasized that with a population of beyond 38 million people, 45% with less 25-year-old, Algeria are a rich dynamic country of natural resources, in particular of hydrocarbons, and possess the fifteenth reserve of larger oil to the world. The energetic field (oil & gas) play a fundamental role in the economy of the Country and represent 35% of the economic increase (source: Central Intelligence Agency - The world factbook 2013). Currently Algeria is according to gas exporter to the world and the production is destined to go up of 8% every year between 2014 and 2018.
GEFCO has remembered that the more commercial important partner of Algeria are the European Union, the United States, China, Turkey, Brazil and Argentina, markets in which the logistic group it is already strongly anticipates.
"GEFCO - Jean-Paul Ornano has explained, managing director of GEFCO Morocco and manager in charge of the North African area - offers in Algeria logistic services to high added value, the line with the international standards of the group. The Africa north is a zone much dynamics and in full expansion regarding the international commerce. The force of our international Network can help our customers to develop itself in this area and to manage international flows from and for the Africa north".
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