Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca will have a futuristic terminal
Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca will have a futuristic terminal as part of a major architectural and technological project planned for this air infrastructure.
The Moroccan National Airports Office (ONDA) recently presented its ‘Airports 2030’ strategy, which aims to modernise national airport infrastructures on a large scale in order to cope with the intense traffic boosted by the country's growing economic activity, the boom in its own tourism market and the major event of the 2030 World Cup, co-organised with Spain and Portugal.
Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca is part of this dynamic and ONDA also recently presented the strategy for this airport infrastructure, which will have a futuristic terminal. This aerodrome has a capacity for some 15 million passengers and aims to be able to absorb more than 30 million passengers by 2029.
The new futuristic terminal at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca will have an H-shaped design and will be operational in 2029. It will be a very modern, efficient infrastructure, aligned with the quality standards required on the international stage in terms of the operation and efficiency of air connections.
The planned investment in this terminal is quantified at 15,000 million Moroccan dirhams (1,432 million euros) and it is estimated that it will be able to handle more than 30 million passengers a year.
Casablanca, the financial heart of Morocco, aspires to become a very important airport hub in Africa and for the rest of the world and needs this development in its main airport.
Morocco's growing economic activity (with major financial, investment and industrial development at many levels), the impressive tourist activity (the Moroccan kingdom registered a record number of tourists with 17.4 million visitors and tourist income of 11,000 million euros in 2024) and the transport demands that the hosting of the next World Cup in 2030 will entail require an effort in terms of mobility and transport capacity that the North African country must meet. Hence the work that is being done on airport, rail and road infrastructure to cope with the huge volume of people at all levels. With this in mind, the new terminal at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca will have an intermodal connection to the Kenitra-Marrakech High Speed Line.
The design of the new terminal will be inspired by the movement of the Atlantic waves and the Arab and Moroccan cultural and architectural heritage, represented by geometric motifs, zellige ornaments and representations of green oases.
The terminal will have three levels and will have a duty-free area, VIP lounges, an integrated hotel with views of the runways and attractive shopping and restaurant areas.
It will also house a new 42-metre-high control tower and a new 3,700-metre runway.
All of this is part of the ‘Airports 2030’ strategy, based on the development of infrastructures, the digitalisation of all kinds of processes and the improvement of the traveller experience.
One of the cornerstones is the Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca, which in a few years' time will be an important point of interconnection with the rest of the African continent, Europe, Asia and America.
