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title: Inauguration of the second line of the Casablanca Tram
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# Inauguration of the second line of the Casablanca Tram

![Inauguration of the second line of the Casablanca Tram](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dsc_9867-scaled.jpg)

Since 24th January, the inhabitants of Casablanca have been able to benefit from
a tram network extended by 16.5km. The newly opened sections cross nine
districts, with close to a million people living in the vicinity of the tram
lines, about a quarter of the population of the economic capital of Morocco.

For this assignment, awarded by Casa Transports, SYSTRA, leader of the
SYSTRA/CID/SYSTRA Maroc/Arep consortium, was in charge of the project management
of the entire execution for the infrastructure, the systems and the rolling
stock.

The project also included the project management of the storage centre at
Facultés and of the maintenance centre at Sidi Bernoussi. To operate both lines,
25 trams were acquired to reach a fleet of 62.

Eric Le Hir, project manager at SYSTRA, commented: “We are proud to have
overcome all the challenges involved in its execution, notably when we achieved
infrastructure reorganisation works simultaneously on the two interchanges with
only nine days of interruption in August 2017. More recently, we delivered all
the central systems migration without interruption of operation. This
inauguration marks the final phase of another wonderful reference in the Maghreb
for SYSTRA. Work on other tramways is still underway in the region, especially
that of Sfax, awarded last year, for which we are responsible for the studies,
and the Rabat extension works.”

![photo-2019-01-23-18-32-51](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/photo-2019-01-23-18-32-51.jpg)