Record capital inflow
Foreign direct investment reached $3.3 billion in 2025 and net inflows grew 26%. Money is not waiting for the perfect moment. It is already moving.
Moroccan Foreign Exchange Office · UNCTADGateway to Morocco & Africa
Africa runs through Morocco.We hold the doors.
MoroccoConsult opens doors for business investors in Morocco and across Africa. Market entry, production, land, permits, partners. We know who signs, who stalls, and who to call.
For companies only. No private individuals.
Morocco → Africa
$3.3B
Foreign direct investment into Morocco in 2025
Moroccan Foreign Exchange Office
+26%
Growth in net FDI inflows
UNCTAD
$41B
Infrastructure programme running to 2030
Ministry of Economy and Finance
54
African markets reachable from one Moroccan hub
African Continental Free Trade Area
01 — Why Morocco, why now
The window is open. It will not stay open quietly.
Morocco is having the strongest decade in its modern economic history. Capital is arriving, ports and rail are being built, and European manufacturers are running out of people at home. Here is what the numbers say.
$41 billion being built
Ports, high-speed rail, airports, stadiums and motorways, on a fixed 2030 World Cup deadline. Add 60,000 new hotel beds and a target of 26 million visitors by 2030.
Ministry of Economy and FinanceFourteen kilometres from Europe
Tanger Med is the largest port in Africa. Morocco holds free trade agreements with the EU, the United States, the UK and Turkey, and reaches 54 African markets through AfCFTA. One factory, three continents.
AfCFTA · Tanger Med Port AuthorityPeople you can actually hire
A young, trained, multilingual workforce: Arabic, French, English, Spanish. An hour of time difference at most from Brussels and Paris, three hours by plane. Europe cannot fill its production lines. Morocco can.
Ministry of Economy and Finance02 — How this market really works
Morocco does not run on procedures. It runs on people.
Every file in this country has a name attached to it. The paperwork is real. The rules are real. But paper does not move on its own. Someone carries it.
The difference between six weeks and six months is whether that someone knows you, trusts you and picks up the phone.
This is not a shortcut around the system. It is the system, here and in most of Africa. Foreign companies lose years learning that the hard way.
Advice you can buy anywhere. What you cannot buy is a first meeting with the right person, in the right room, at the right moment.
A wrong first meeting costs a year. A wrong partner costs more than that. Most European companies that failed in Morocco did not fail on price or product. They failed on the door they walked through.
You are not buying consultancy. You are buying time.
We knock on the right doors, first time.
We never publish, name or trade on our network. That discretion is exactly why it still works. For them, and for you.
03 — Services
For business owners. Full stop.
We work with companies, funds and family groups. Not with private individuals, not with people looking for a place to retire. Every engagement is built around one decision you are trying to make.
Market entry & company setup
Structure, registration, banking, licences, tax and the local partners you will actually depend on. From a first exploratory visit to a company that trades.
Production relocation
Europe cannot find people. Morocco can. Sites, industrial zones, workforce, suppliers, customs and export routes. Three hours from Brussels, inside your working day, with duty-free access to the EU.
Agriculture & agro-industry
Land, water rights, certification, processing and export. We have done this ourselves: from the tree to the container, certified in Morocco and in Belgium.
Real estate & tourism assets
Hotels, resorts, land and commercial assets. Title checked before the brochure, permits before the payment, and an honest read on what the asset is really worth.
Government relations & permits
Ministries, regions, agencies and the offices in between. We put your file in front of the person who can decide on it, and we keep it moving.
Africa expansion from a Moroccan hub
Moroccan banks, insurers and industrial groups have been operating across West and Central Africa for twenty years. Use their roads instead of building your own. 54 markets, one base.
04 — How we work
Four steps. That is the whole method.
Every file is different. The sequence never is.
01
Listen
One long conversation about what you are actually trying to build, what worries you, and what your board will accept. It costs nothing, and it sometimes ends with us saying Morocco is not your answer.
02
Map the route
We name the real obstacles, the people who control them, the honest timeline and the cost. You get a route, not a report.
03
Open the doors
We make the introductions, we sit in the meetings, we translate what is said and what is meant. You meet decision makers, not intermediaries.
04
Stay until it's done
Signed, licensed, staffed, producing. We stay on the file until the thing you came for exists.
No brochures. No standard packages. If we cannot help you, you hear it in the first conversation.
05 — Proof
Three files. Three doors.
Names are shared privately, with the client's permission. Discretion is part of what you buy.
A Belgian group moves cargo-bike production
An eco-logistics group was comparing Eastern Europe and Asia for the assembly of its cargo bikes. We mapped Morocco against both: labour, components, customs, transport time back to Belgium, and the industrial zones that actually had capacity. Then we put them in front of the right regional agency and the right suppliers.
Morocco chosen over Eastern Europe and Asia.
A Marrakech hotel, end to end
Search, valuation, title checks, negotiation, permits, staffing and the operating licence. The buyer flew in three times. We handled everything in between and stayed on the file until the doors opened.
One file, one contact, from first visit to opening.
Pallets released at the port of Casablanca
Arqan Oil had certified organic argan oil stuck in the port of Casablanca on a customs classification dispute, with a European customer waiting and a shelf-life clock running. We knew the office and the person in it. The file moved that same week.
Shipment released, customer kept.
Rachid does not send you a report. He picks up the phone, and the next day you are sitting with the person who decides.
Founder
06 — Founder
A face you can call.
MoroccoConsult is Rachid Et-Taïbi. Belgian-Moroccan, 25+ years in international business, and one thing most Morocco consultants cannot say: he has actually run a company there.
He built an organic argan oil producer in Morocco from nothing. Two entities, around 500 people, the full chain from the land to the export container, certified in Morocco and in Belgium.
He has hired, fired, negotiated with ministries, argued with customs and paid Moroccan salaries at the end of the month. That is the difference between reading about a market and surviving one.
- Belgian-Moroccan. At home in both cultures, both languages, both sets of business codes.
- 25+ years of international business across Europe, Morocco and Africa.
- Founder of an organic argan oil producer: two entities, ~500 people, land to export.
- Certified operations in Morocco and in Belgium.
- You deal with him. Not with an account manager.
07 — Questions
Straight answers.
Who do you work with?
Companies. Funds, family groups, industrial SMEs, hotel and agriculture investors, and the boards behind them. We do not work with private individuals looking for a holiday home or a retirement plot.
Every engagement starts with a business decision: enter, produce, buy, expand, or walk away.
Can't I just follow the official procedures myself?
You can, and the procedures are real. Morocco has an investment charter, regional investment centres and a working administration. The paperwork is not the problem.
The problem is that a file in Morocco moves at the speed of the person carrying it. Foreign companies routinely wait months on a step that takes days once the right office knows who you are and why your project matters to their region.
You are not paying us to know the rules. You are paying us so that the person on the other side of the desk already knows us.
What do you actually do for us?
We map the route, open the doors and stay on the file. In practice: shortlisting sites and partners, sitting in the meetings, translating both language and intent, pushing permits, checking who you are really dealing with, and telling you when a deal smells wrong.
We sit on your side of the table. We take no commission from the other side.
What does it cost?
It depends on the file. Short assignments run on a fixed fee. Longer market-entry or relocation projects run on a retainer with a defined scope, and some engagements include a success component.
You get a written quote after the first conversation, before any work starts. The first conversation costs nothing.
How long does it take to set up a company in Morocco?
A standard company can be registered in a matter of weeks. That is rarely the real question.
Getting the licences, the site, the workforce, the banking and the first customer in place usually takes three to nine months depending on the sector. Industrial projects that need land and building permits take longer.
You get a realistic timeline in step two, not an optimistic one.
Do you work outside Morocco?
Yes. Morocco is the base, not the ceiling. Moroccan banks, insurers, telecoms and industrial groups have been operating across West and Central Africa for two decades, and the African Continental Free Trade Area opens 54 markets.
We use those existing Moroccan roads into Africa instead of building new ones from Europe.
Will you tell us who is in your network?
No, and that is the point. Relationships built over 25 years survive because they are not advertised, resold or leaked into a pitch deck.
You will meet the people you need to meet, one file at a time. Your own name is handled with exactly the same discretion.
09 — Contact
One conversation tells you whether Morocco is worth your time.
Tell us what you are trying to build. If Morocco is not the right answer, you will hear that first, and it will not cost you anything.
Both go straight to the founder. No call centre, no form-filling gatekeeper.
Thank you. Your message is with Rachid. You will have an answer within one business day.