Morocco has formally announced that the National Airports Office (ONDA) has given a 100% Moroccan consortium led by SGTM (Société Générale des Travaux du Maroc) and TGCC (Travaux Généraux de Construction de Casablanca) the construction contract for the new terminal at Casablanca Mohammed V Airport.
According to ONDA, the deal, which is worth 12.8 billion Moroccan dirhams (USD 1.28 billion), represents “the largest airport construction site ever undertaken in Morocco.”
“The project marks a historic turning point in the evolution of the kingdom’s main airport and reflects the ambition to provide Casablanca with infrastructure worthy of its role as a regional and international hub,” the ONDA statement remarked.
The announcement comes after a fiercely contested international procurement that attracted significant interest from top construction companies across the globe. Sinohydro Corporation and China Civil Engineering Construction were among the nearly half of the twenty-eight enterprises that first filed expressions of interest in May 2025. Companies from Spain, Turkey, Egypt, France, India, Switzerland, and Canada also took part in the initial stage.
The SGTM-TGCC consortium was the only competitor left after the bid opening, which took place in mid-December after an international tender was introduced in early November. During the administrative and technical evaluation stages, the Turkish company Kalyon Insaat was dismissed. Only Sogea-Maroc and Jet Contractors, two domestic rivals, had joined the SGTM-TGCC group early on.
The project is scheduled to be completed in the middle of 2029 over a 40-month construction phase. The entire project took eighteen months to complete, from preliminary programming to architectural design and technical assessments. The tender phase spanned eight months from the launch of the expression of interest in April 2025 to the final contract award.
The new terminal will cover 600,000 square metres, apart from handling 20 million passengers per year in its initial phase, with the possibility of further expansion to 30 million. The project forms part of ONDA’s “Aeroport 2030” strategy, which seeks to bring Morocco’s airports up to the highest international standards in terms of capacity, efficiency and global connectivity.