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History

The total length of paved roads in Morocco has grown dramaticly over the past decades, and doubled from 14.500 km in 1956 to over 30.000 km now. Studies in the early seventies predicted a growth in traffic-load of 6% a year, meaning that every twelve years the traffic doubles. In 1975 construction started on the first stage of the motorway between Casablanca and Rabat. Financial restrictions slowed down development and the opening of the last section had to wait until 1987. Two years later the ADM was officially formed. Since that date other motorways were developed. One instrument to allow faster construction was introduction of toll. Revenues could then be used to repay investments.

Road construction

After completion of the Casablanca-Rabat expressway new developments contributed in completing the much wanted North-South and East-West main links. The East-West link runs from Rabat via Fez to Oujda. The first stage is completed as the Rabat-Fes expressway and the Fes-Oujda expressway is under construction.

The North-South link is formed with Casablanca as startpoint:

Casablanca to Tanger, Tétouan and Fnideq using Rabat-Tangier expressway
Casablanca via Marrakech to Agadir using Casablanca-Marrakesh expressway and Marrakech-Agadir expressway
Casablanca to El Jadida

managing projects

ADM uses projects to manage the development of new roads. Each project has its own finances (budget, investors) and most projects split up in segments. Call for bids for each segment are then published and generly open for national and international bidders.

under construction

Two projects are under construction:

Fes-Oujda expressway - 320 km road to be built between 2007 and 2010 Total projected investment: 2.000 M DH
Marrakech-Agadir expressway- 223 km road to be built between 2006 and 2009 Total projected investment: 1.500 M DH

planned

For one project start of construction is expected shortlu:

widening the Casablanca-Rabat expressway from 2 x 2 to 2 x 3 lanes

Realisation between 2009 and 2011, projected budget 800 M DH

The company

ADM is set up as a société anonyme and its market capital of 6.507.628.500 dirhams has been brought together by:

Fonds Hassan II (the Hasan II Fund): 61,47%
Trésor public of Morocco : 33,11 %
Public corporations : 2,09 %
Banks and (other) institutional investors : 0,76 %
the Kuwait Investment Authority : 1,74%
others : 0,83 %

In 2008 the company will invest 6.684 million dirhams (aprox 610 million Euro)

Management

The board of directors of ADM is formed by real men and representatives of major investors:

Board of ADM
name	title	other/main function
Karim GHELLAB	President	Min. of Transport and Equipment
Abdeljebbar YOUSSEFI	member	General Secretary Department for Equipment
Hicham N'HAMMOUCHA	member	Director for roads and traffic
Mouhcine ALAOUI	member	Director of technology
Khalid SBIA	member	Min. of Economy and Finance Chief financial officer head of infrastructure

On top of these board-members, major stakeholders have also a representative in the board

some Stakeholders representation
Stakeholder	represented by	role/occupation
Hassan II fund for Economic and social development	Rachid ROUASS	manager operations
Treasury	Abderrahmane SEMMAR	Directorate of Public Enterprises and Participation
Kuwaitt Investment Fund	Walid Fayssal ALFAHID	Director Moroccan affairs
National Port Authority	Mohamed Jamal BENJELLOUN	Director Nat. Port Authority

Above list is not complete and is based on the Annual Report 2007.

Toll revenues

Over 2007 ADM collected 1004 MDH in toll (direct pay at booths and season tickets) and 82 MDH in other revenues (2006:254 MDh resp. 56 MDh). Due to increasing traffic and opening of more (new) toll-roads the income from toll has nearly doubled since 2004 (534 MDH)
Historical figures show a steady growth, starting in 1991 at 46 MDh, 118 in 1995, 342 in 2000 and 640 in 2005.

The top-3 earners are: (2007 and 2006 figures)

Casablanca-Rabat - 306 MDh (252 MDh)
Rabat-Tanger - 269 MDh (212 MDh)
Casablanca - Marrakech - 219 MDh (117 MDh)

Revenues are used to pay for companies management (28%), interest and other financing costs (47%) and partial repayment of loans (25%)

daily management

Besides developing new roads and manage these projects, daily operation of existing motorways is also a very important responsibility of the company. This includes daily and major maintenance, promote road-security and collect toll-revenues

Workforce

The company employs 597 people, and this total is quite stable over the past years. This figure includes only ADM's own workforce: many more Moroccan and foreign people are working on the ongoing building-projects, but these work for the contractors or subcontractors. The percentage of female personnel at the end of 2007 is 8% (at 47 female against 550 male).

Road safety

In 2007 762 accidents with casualties were reported, a 5% increase on 2006. The accident-rate per 100 million traveled kiloneters dropped by 20% from 30,2 to 24,1 between these years, but the total number as well as rate of deaths didn't go down.

A break-down of these figures:

Safety on ADM managed roads
Type accident		2006	2007	% change	notes
serious accidents		726	762	+5%	is accident with serious inj. or deaths
	rate per 100 mln km.	30,2	24.1	-20%
fatal accidents		74	86	+16%	is accident with at least one death
	rate per 100 mln km.	3,1	2,7	-12%
serious injuries		480	535	+11%
	is per 100 mln km.	20,0	16,9	-15%
deaths		90	127	+41%
	is per 100 mln km.	3,7	4,0	+7%