Minister of Equipment and Transport Karim Ghellab of Morocco

Speaking in Casablanca before new diploma holders of the Maritime Studies Institute (ISEM), Ghellab said this reform will pave the way for services improvement and provide necessary tools for the Moroccan economy to face competition and take up the challenge of globalization, stressing the role of the private sector in the field.

Ghellab said the amelioration is due to the Plages propres "clean beaches" program sponsored by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, but also to the awareness-raising campaigns about the need to keep beaches clean.

Moroccan Minister of Equipment and Transport Karim Ghellab said Monday that the Open Sky agreement makes the Moroccan and European skies one, for all airlines, including low-cost ones as far as rules, procedures and regulations are concerned, reported Reuters.

Launching the campaign, Transport Minister Karim Ghellab said that more than one-fifth of all traffic accidents in the country took place in the city.

country's main tourist destination, by 2015.

Ghellab said Morocco was mulling a second high-speed rail link between Casablanca and Marrakech, the North African country's main tourist destination, by 2015.