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Showing posts with label Tanger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tanger. Show all posts

Friday, September 16, 2011

Helicopter link between Tangier and three Spanish cities for 45 euros per trip.


"Hillat Helitt" Company for fly continues to  its efforts to construct a private port city by helicopter funny to be a point of departure for the city of Tangier.

This, the company plans to set up the first air route for aircraft vertical links between the two continents, Europe and Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the financial investment was estimated at 180 million euros, and the expectations of up to 500 thousand passengers a year.
The company began planning the project about a year ago, noting that the project will link the city of Tangier and three Spanish cities are interesting, the island green, and Barbati. It also confirmed that the climatic conditions in the strait will not affect flights, where you can kind of aircraft Alhlkuatr Sikorsky S-92 US-made, which one eighth of which 20 million euros, to bear the wind speed up to 160 miles per hour.



 
Spanish media sources reported that this new service will launch flights every 20 minutes, with an average work 12 hours a day, and the capacity load of 19 people per flight speeds of 280 km per hour.
For the duration of the trip interesting link between Tangier and would amount to 8 minutes, while will be the price per ticket is 45 euros.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Sarkozy, involved in the development of the foundation stone for the "TGV" Moroccan


French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that will end this month in Morocco to participate in the development of foundation stone for the high-speed train "TGV" (Tangier - Casablanca), the first of its kind in Morocco.

The news agency "AFP" Sarkozy said: "I'll be in Morocco later this month, accompanied by King Mohammed VI, to put the foundation stone for the project" TGV "Rabat - Casablanca - Tanger."

He made the comments during the inauguration this Thursday, 8 September, in the province, "Dobbs" in eastern France, for the line "rail" rapid (l in G).

It is noteworthy that the completion of financing "by LG in the" Moroccan according to the structure of the money distributed between the contribution of the state budget and the Hassan II Fund for economic and social value of 8.5 billion dirhams, and a gift from the French state of 800 million dirhams, and a loan from the Treasury and the banks the French value of 875.6 billion dirhams, The French Development Agency to 4.2 billion dirhams, and a loan of the Saudi Fund for Development of one billion and 585 dirhams, and a loan of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, $ 770 million dirhams, and a loan of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development worth 626 million dirhams ..

It is expected to record this line immediately after operation in late 2015, the transfer of more than 6 million passengers and reduce travel time between the cities of Tangier and Casablanca to two hours and 10 minutes instead of 4 hours and 45 minutes to an hour, as well as between the cities of Tangier and Rabat to an hour to 20 minutes instead of 3 hours and 45 minutes .