Casablanca – Digitalization has made a tangible contribution to reducing the processing time of Morocco’s foreign trade procedures, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Omar Hejira said on Tuesday before the House of Councillors.
Responding to oral questions during a session focused on “the importance of digitalization in strengthening the country’s trade exchanges,” Hejira said that PortNet, Morocco’s national single window for foreign trade procedures, has enabled the digitization of 120 services, connected 50 public institutions and administrations, and expanded coverage across all of the country’s ports and airports.
The effort has resulted in the digitization of 96% of Morocco’s foreign trade procedures, he noted.
Hejira added that the momentum has particularly covered the digitalization of licenses and documents linked to import operations, the monitoring of industrial and food products, and the interconnection of procedures with bodies such as Customs and the National Office for Food Safety (ONSSA). The system also now includes electronic payment, advance cargo declarations, and improved digital coordination among the various inspection and control agencies.
The government official said these reforms have already delivered concrete results, including cutting the time required to register import commitments from one week to just three hours, reducing cargo dwell time from 13 days to eight days, and shortening waiting times at border corridors by 43%.
On the broader simplification of procedures, Hejira announced that a unified export portal is set to launch next month after 18 months of work and nearly 60 coordination meetings.
He explained that the platform will serve as a digital one-stop shop for foreign trade procedures, with the longer-term objective of evolving into a fully integrated single window for all trade-related formalities.
The latest move forms part of Morocco’s wider push to modernize trade logistics, streamline administrative workflows, and strengthen the country’s competitiveness as a regional trade and export hub.
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