Fes-Oujda Expressway is not an Expressway where it is free but a paying 'Motorway' linking Morocco-Algeria with Oujda-Rabat-Casablanca and Southern Morocco and came into operation on 25 July 2011.

The motorway will be an extension on the existing Rabat

Rabat

Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...

 - Meknes

Meknes

Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located from the capital Rabat and from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway. Meknes was the capital of Morocco under the reign of Moulay Ismail , before it was relocated to Marrakech. The...

 - Fes

Fes

Fes or Fez is the second largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca, with a population of approximately 1 million . It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane region....

 expressway.
Work started in 2007 and planned opening is in 2011. At the end of June 2011 the status was still under construction and no formal announcement was made regarding the opening-date.

Finance

The projected costs for the construction are 9125 Million

Million

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 Dirhams

Moroccan dirham

The dirham is the currency of Morocco. The plural form is pronounced darahim, although in French and English "dirhams" is commonly used. Its ISO 4217 code is "MAD". It is subdivided into 100 santimat . The dirham is issued by the Bank Al-Maghrib, the central bank of Morocco...

, excluding costs for buying or acquiring land.

The ADM

Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc

The Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc is the Morocco's national authority for the management of over 850 km of Moroccan expressways. ADM is based in Rabat....

 signed an agreement with the Hassan II Fund for Economic and Social Development for a financial injection of the ADM of 2000 MDH in 2005 and invited external investors for participation.

The main investors are: (all in Million Dirham, unless other stated)

• BID - Islamic Bank for Development - 1080
• FADES -Arab Fund for social and economic development - 1800
• FKDEA- Kuwait Fund for Arab and Economic Development - 900
• a fund related to the OPEC
  OPEC
  OPEC is an intergovernmental organization of twelve developing countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. OPEC has maintained its headquarters in Vienna since 1965, and hosts regular meetings...
  
   - 225
• FEMIP- European Fund Euro-Medit. Inv&Partnersh. - € 180 M
• FAD - Fonds d’Abou Dhabi - 225

Sections

The construction is divided into ten sections:

• 1 : Fès – PK 43,9 (43,9 km) ;
• 2 : PK 43,9 – Béni Bouzert (28,1 km) ;
• 3 : Béni Bouzert – Oued Amlil (20 km) ;
• 4 : Oued Amlil – PK 110 (18 km) ;
• 5 : PK 110 – Taza (17 km) ;
• 6 : Taza – Guercif (67 km) ;
• 7 : Guercif - Taourirt (34 km) ;
• 8 : Taourirt – Laayoun (53 km) ;
• 9 : Laayoun – PK 316 (35 km) ;
• 10 : PK 316 – Oujda (12 km).

Several national and international contructors work on one or more sections of the road. Most international contractors have worked/are working for ADM on other projects such as the Marrakech-Agadir expressway

Marrakech-Agadir expressway

The Autoroute Casablanca - Agadir is a Moroccan new main road in Morocco. Building began in 2000 and the road was inaugurated on 21 June 2010 by Prince Moulay Rachid....

Network

This stretch is an important part of the Moroccan East-West corridor and will also be a part of the so called l’Autoroute Maghrébine which will run from Nouakchott

Nouakchott

-Government:The town was first divided into districts in 1973. First it was divided into four. From 1986, the city has been split into nine districts.* Arafat* Dar Naim* El Mina* Ksar* Riad* Sebkha* Tevragh-Zeina* Teyarett* Toujounine...

 (capital of Mauritania

Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

) all the way to Tobruk

Tobruk

Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....

 in Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

.

The road will improve the access to and from many cities along the Mediterranean

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 coast. Another project improving transport in the North is the new railroad to the port of Nador

Nador

Nador is a city located in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco. The city is a Mediterranean port on the Bḥar Ameẓẓyan lagoon , and it is the major trading center in the region for fish, fruit, and livestock...

 and Spanish enclave Melilla

Melilla

Melilla is a autonomous city of Spain and an exclave on the north coast of Morocco. Melilla, along with the Spanish exclave Ceuta, is one of the two Spanish territories located in mainland Africa...