Explosives Detectors Will be Installed at Mohammed V Airport

Explosives detectors will be installed early 2016 at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca and external safety cabinets will be strengthened. These measures will then be extended to other airports.

The Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, the kingdom’s main airport will soon be equipped with explosive detectors. A tender was launched recently in this direction by the National Office of Airports (ONDA) and bid opening will be on December 1. As the estimated total amount of the market it is 5.7 million dirhams and focuses on the acquisition, installation and maintenance of explosives detectors.

And this is not the only initiative taken by ONDA to secure airports in the kingdom as advocated by a Special Commission (Interior DGNS and Police) last June during field missions and high-level meetings deal with the terrorist threat.

This Special Committee concluded that the country’s airports had security holes, particularly at outdoor speakers to be resolved urgently. And it will be done soon also with, at first, the work will concern the Marrakech airport, Dakhla, Ouarzazate and Tetouan. The amount needed for this work is over 100 million dirhams.