The Moroccan Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) has launched a international tender to identify the manager of the new construction site port of Casablanca which will be operated under the a 30-year concession contract. The authority recalled that the shipyard, which occupies an area of of 21 hectares, consists of four structures: a basin of dry dock of 244 meters by 40 meters, a lifting platform of 150 by 28 meters with a capacity of 9,000 tons, a 62 by 13 meter quay equipped with a belt overhead crane with capacity of 450 tons and long quays total of 820 linear meters.

The Casablanca construction site is the largest African naval sector. ANP specified that the call for tenders is aimed at candidates, companies based or not in Morocco, with proven experience of at least ten years in the management of shipyards comparable to the one in Casablanca that act as a alone or within a group led by a company with experience.

The investment planned for the construction of the shipyard was 2.7 billion dirhams (252 million euros). From 2019, when it was completed, the construction site remained unused precisely because of the lack of a concessionaire and in the In recent years, the hypothesis of conferring its management to an entity set up by the ANP and the Agence Nationale de Gestion Stratégique du Portefeuille de l'État (ANGSPE) which has in its portfolio for the infrastructure and transport the ANP itself as well as the Authority Tanger Med Port and the Moroccan Marsa Maroc Port Group.