The slurry pipeline project includes a main slurry pipeline and secondary slurry pipelines with a total length of 235 km and a capacity of 38 MMt/a.

Office Cherifien des Phosphates’ (OCP) is currently preparing and implementing an investment programme which will raise phosphate production from 28 to47MMt/a, with approximately 80 per cent to be processed locally.

The new pipeline system will enable OCP to transport 100 per cent of phosphate production from the Khouribga mines to local industry in Jorf Lasfar. OCP will also have the option to export phosphate from the port of Jorf Lasfar.

The agreement was signed between OCP Group Chairman Mostafa Terrab and Agence Française de Développement’s (AFD) Acting Chief Executive Officer Jean-Michel Debrat.

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OCP’s production costs and greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced as phosphates will no longer need to be dried prior to transportation.

AFD is a public development finance institution, which is active in over 50 countries and nine French Overseas Communities, where it finances and supports projects that improve living conditions and promote economic growth.