Nisrine Iouzzi is a rising star of Moroccan engineering. She has the difficult task of supervising one of the Kingdom’s largest strategic projects: the Dakhla Atlantique port.
This port, nestled 40 km north of the city of Dakhla, on the Atlantic coast, aims to boost the economic, social and industrial development of the region, and to create a maritime bridge to West Africa. .
Nisrine joined the Ministry of Equipment and Water in February 2015, as Head of the Planning and Financing Division. For more than eight years, she held strategic positions within this ministry, notably that of Head of the Regulation and Maritime Domain Division. On July 20, 2023, she was appointed to the provisional management of the Dakhla Atlantique port, a flagship project of the Development Model of the southern provinces and the National Port Strategy for 2030.
A graduate of the National School of Mines in Rabat and the Mohammedia School of Engineering, Nisrine has solid expertise in the port and maritime field, as well as a global and integrated vision of the sector’s challenges. It monitors the construction work of this infrastructure, which will include three components: a commercial port, a fishing port and a ship repair port. She monitors the quality of the various works and writes reports on their progress and their accounting status.
As a reminder, the Dakhla Atlantique port, whose overall investment cost is 12.5 billion dirhams, aims to develop the resource of small pelagics, to develop a new industrial and logistics zone near the port, and to strengthen the port offer of this important hub. It should also contribute to the history of Morocco and Africa, by promoting exchanges and cooperation between the two continents.
Nisrine Iouzzi is a dynamic, ambitious and committed woman, who takes up the challenge of carrying out this major project. She is a source of inspiration for younger generations, who aspire to contribute to the development of their country and their continent.
