North Africa Aerospace Hubs Tempt Europe With Low Costs
Bombardier has started training staff in Morocco with a view to establishing a facility that will produce items such as flight controls for its CRJ family of regional airliners.
Bombardier has started training staff in Morocco with a view to establishing a facility that will produce items such as flight controls for its CRJ family of regional airliners.

The aerospace industries in Morocco and Tunisia still tend to be viewed as embryonic by some Westerners, but the North African countries are starting to capitalize on the desire by European companies to move production offshore and take advantage of the close proximity to these low-cost economies. Both countries have made a commitment to develop an investment framework promoting local jobs, and opportunities for international companies, and this is paying dividends with the constant creation of new aerospace concerns. Although the IT and technological resources are sometimes low, the growth of special economic zones devoted to the aerospace industry in both countries presages development that looks set to become more sophisticated over time.