The firm won this contract for 1.09 million dirhams. His rival, Maltev, has already won contracts with the ANP. It was, among other things, selected to carry out the technical evaluation and sizing study of marine pollution prevention and control systems in certain ports of the Kingdom and won the contract to carry out the diagnostic study of the inventory of maritime traffic management systems “port VTS/VTMIS” installed in the ports of Nador, Mohammedia, Agadir and Laâyoune. Novec, which has a handful of contracts to its credit in various sectors, including sanitation, energy, industry and urban planning, will have to develop waste management plans for 11 commercial ports. These are the port platforms of Nador, Al Hoceïma, Mohammedia, Casablanca, Jorf Lasfar, Safi ville, Safi Atlantique, Agadir, Tan-Tan, Laâyoune and Dakhla.
“The ANP is a unifying actor working to make ports an integrated development tool in their local, regional, national and international environment. For several years now, it has been engaged in an integrated social and environmental responsibility (CSR) policy which aims to guarantee, in the long term, balanced consideration of economic, environmental, social and societal issues. The main objective of the study is to provide commercial ports managed by the ANP with plans for managing solid and liquid waste on board ships and managing waste from port activity,” explains the port regulator. He thus recalls that in the preamble to law 15-02, the Moroccan legislator expressed his concern about the question of prevention against pollution and preservation of the environment by affirming that “the port sector must adapt, ‘on the one hand, to economic changes characterized by internal development requirements of the country and, on the other hand, to new economic, institutional, technological and environmental constraints and developments and maritime transport’.
This concern finds its formulation in the content of law 15-02 which provided the ANP with legal tools, and in particular article 6 which deals with an aspect relating to the management of port waste. Indeed, this article requires each port to establish an internal development plan which defines the port areas and, among other things, the areas and spaces reserved for the reception, collection and storage of waste resulting from maritime activities. and ports. Added to this is Law 71-18 on port police which is part of the State’s desire to provide this body with a congruent and evolving legal framework.
Being up to date with the new standards and norms adopted at the international level in the field of port policing, this text of law better accommodates international sectoral changes, while contributing to enhancing the competitiveness of Moroccan ports and improving their competitive position, while by safeguarding the port environment. Regarding the management of solid and liquid waste from ships, Law 71-18 devoted 4 articles to this aspect, but without mentioning the important aspect of the port plan for managing waste produced by port activities and from ships.
