Business : Le Maroc devient le 1er investisseur intra-africain

[mediteraneo]

Infomédiaire Maroc – Le Maroc se hisse en tête des investisseurs intra-africains et devient même le 5ème investisseur mondial en Afrique, avec environ 8 milliards de dollars d’investissements annoncés en 2015-16, selon l’édition 2017 du rapport ‘‘Perspectives économiques en Afrique’’, publié par la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), le Centre de développement de l’organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) et le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement (PNUD).

Le rapport, sous-titré ‘‘Entrepreneuriat et industrialisation en Afrique’’, prend en compte les investissements annoncés entre 2015 et 2016.

A noter que l’Ethiopie est le 1er pays bénéficiaire des investissements marocains avec plus de 3 milliards de dollars destinés à la construction d’une usine d’engrais, devant la Côte d’Ivoire (2,7 milliards de dollars).

Et à l’échelle mondiale, le Maroc figure pour la 1ère fois dans le Top 5 des investisseurs étrangers sur le continent, derrière la Chine (38,4 milliards de dollars), les Emirats arabes unis (14,9 milliards de dollars), l’Italie (11,6 milliards), les États-Unis (10,4 milliards), mais devant la France (7,7 milliards).

[Pihman]

devant la France (7,7 milliards)


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[mediteraneo]

pire.. pas loin des usa

[iridium]

C'est aujourd'hui que se prennent les places en Afrique dans quelques années il sera déjà trop tard !

[MEC213]

A noter que l’Ethiopie est le 1er pays bénéficiaire des investissements marocains avec plus de 3 milliards de dollars destinés à la construction d’une usine d’engrais....

Financement du projet
- 60% par les banques
- 20% par le gouvernement de l'Éthiopie
- 20% par l'Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP)
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Les concurrents de l'OCP en Afrique

With over 50% of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa currently consuming less than 50,000 tonnes in a year


Ethiopia
In Ethiopia five fertiliser plants are currently under construction in Yavy, some 330km west of the capital Addis Ababa, at a total cost of over US$2.8 billion. The plants will have an annual production capacity of 330,000 tons and are expected to begin production in 2017. The project is being led by the state-owned Ethiopian Metal and Engineering Corporation
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Nigeria
In Nigeria, currently the only producer of urea on the continent, several local and Indian firms have advanced plans which could see production increase by tenfold, from its current level of 500,000 tons.

Eleme Petrochemicals, backed by the Indorama Corporation of Indonesia, has also announced plans for a 2,500 ton per day plant to be constructed at Port Harcourt.
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Gabon
The government of Gabon, together with Indian (Tata) and Singaporean (Olam) investors, is in the advanced stage of a feasibility assessment for a urea plant with an annual capacity of 1.3 million tons.

Fatima Group, Pakistan’s third largest agricultural input company, has been scouting various African countries ahead of a planned US$1 billion investment in a world scale fertiliser plant. In addition to catering for local markets, surplus production from the plant has been earmarked for export to Pakistan, where urea production is unsufficent to meet local demand .
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Mozambique
In 2015 Sumitomo Corporation and Toyo Engineering announced plans to invest US$1.2 billion over the next four years to build a 630,000 ton per year fertiliser plant in Mozambique
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Kenya
Also in East Africa, Japanese firm Toyota Tsushu has been awarded the tender to construct a US$1.2 billion fertiliser plant in Nakuru, Kenya. The plant is expected to be completed in 2018
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Tanzania
UK listed Wentworth Resources plans to build a US$360 million urea plant in Tanzania, to be supplied by a proposed 400MW gas-fired
power plant in Mtwara, in the south of the country. The power plant, which will cost close to US$1 billion, will be built by the US consortium of Symbion Power and General Electric
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Togo
Indian companies, seeking new fertiliser sources, have also been scouring the African continent. Indian state-owned Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd (RCF) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Ghana and is seeking long-term natural gas supplies for the production of urea. It is also looking at sourcing phosphate fertilisers from Togo
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Angola
In Lusophone Africa Japanese firms are leading the way, a group of which winning a US$1.3 billion to build a fertiliser plant in Angola with a capacity of 666,000 tons of ammonia and 580,000 tons of urea per year.

Half of the ammonia will be exported while all of the urea will be for domestic consumption. However, lack of local demand may increase
the export focus of the project.

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Les nouvelles découvertes en Afrique

Substantial phosphate reserves have also been identified in Mozambique and Namibia. Brazilian miner Vale estimates Mozambique’s reserves of apatite to be as high as 155 million MT, making it the largest known reserve in Central or East Africa. Some 60km off the coast of Namibia the Australian owned Sandpiper marine phosphate project is sitting on what it suspects to be the world’s largest marine reserve of phosphate rock, at 1.7 billion MT, including an initial reserve of 133 million MT.

As no other country in the world conducts marine phosphate mining, in September 2013 the government of Namibia placed an 18-month moratorium on marine phosphate mining, pending the outcome of an environmental impact assessment into potential impacts on
the Namibian fishing industry

[iridium]

Ce n'est pas parce qu'il y a de nouvelles découvertes et de nouveaux investissements que le Maroc doit rester les bras croisés ! Bien au contraire et l'OCP l'a bien compris !