A high-level delegation from Círculo de Empresarios, one of Spain’s most influential business associations, has wrapped up an intensive institutional and economic visit to Morocco, taking in three of the kingdom’s economic heavyweights: Tangier, Rabat, and Casablanca. The mission was led by the group’s president, Juan María Nin Génova.
The visit formed part of the fourth edition of the association’s Business Discovery program, an initiative designed to bring Spanish investors closer to strategic markets, give them a firsthand feel for those markets’ economic and institutional dynamics, and open new avenues for international cooperation, according to information obtained by Hespress.
During the trip, the delegation held a series of high-level meetings with leading political and economic figures in both countries. On the Moroccan side, these included Nadia Fettah, the minister of economy and finance; Riad Mezzour, the minister of industry and trade; and Nezha Hayat, director general of the Mohammed VI Investment Fund, a state-backed vehicle created to channel public and private capital into priority sectors of the Moroccan economy. The group also met Spain’s ambassador to Morocco, Enrique Ojeda Vila, and the Spanish consul general in Tangier, Aurora Díaz-Rato.
The packed program featured field visits and meetings with flagship institutions and companies that showcase Morocco’s drive to modernize its economy and industry. Among the highlights were the Tanger Med port complex, one of the largest container ports in Africa and the Mediterranean, sitting on the Strait of Gibraltar across from Spain; the Renault plant in Tangier, a cornerstone of Morocco’s fast-growing automotive industry; the Attijariwafa Bank group, one of the country’s largest lenders; and the CGEM, the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises, the country’s main employers’ federation. The delegation also held wider talks with representatives of Morocco’s business community.
Círculo de Empresarios said the central aim of this edition was to observe Morocco’s economic modernization firsthand and to reinforce the country’s role as a vital industrial and logistics platform linking Europe and Africa. The Moroccan market, the association noted, offers promising investment opportunities for Spanish firms in infrastructure, industry, energy, the automotive sector, financial services, and bilateral trade.
In remarks carried by a statement issued for the occasion, Nin Génova said Morocco represents a major opportunity to deepen bilateral economic ties and strengthen the positioning of Spanish companies as key players in a region marked by exceptional momentum. Missions of this kind, he added, allow the association’s members to grasp market realities on the ground, build lasting relationships of trust, and identify new horizons for international expansion.
The organization stressed that Morocco is not merely a geographic neighbor but a strategic partner with which Spain shares significant economic complementarity, alongside a strategic location as a crossroads connecting Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic. It called for continued development of channels for dialogue between economic and institutional players to anchor this cooperation over the long term, and expressed its sincere thanks for the pivotal support and ongoing cooperation provided by the Spanish embassy in Morocco.
