Growing Morocco’s $2 billion-a-year Aerospace Industry

Efforts are part of a years-long push to transform the largely agrarian economy through subsidizing manufacturers of planes, trains, and automobiles. Officials hope it dovetails with efforts to grow Moroccan airlines, including the state-owned Royal Air Maroc. The French engine manufacturer is among the 130 aerospace companies active in Morocco, where parts ranging from wings to fuselages are produced in an industry that employs 42% women — a proportion that industry lobbyists say is larger than its European and North American manufacturing industry counterparts. Though many companies eye Morocco as a source for comparatively cheap labor, the industry and government have worked to train skilled workers at IMA, an institute for aeronautics professions in Casablanca.
 

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