MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 27/01/2025
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00:00Thank you for joining us on Medihand and welcome to this new edition of your economy newspaper.
00:13In Morocco, investment in airport expansion projects will reach 42 billion dirhams by 2030.
00:21According to the Ministry of Transport and Logistics, this is a series of projects,
00:25including the development of the Casablanca airport to increase its capacity to 44 million passengers per year,
00:33the construction of a new terminal at the Rabat Saleh airport, which can accommodate 4 million passengers per year,
00:40in addition to the upgrade of other main airports such as Tangier, Marrakech, Fez, Titoan and Agadir to increase their capacity to accommodate.
00:48The Ministry of Transport and Logistics has launched a strategic study focusing on the creation of a national commercial maritime fleet,
00:56which meets the strategic challenges related to the country's social and economic development.
01:05Modernization and innovation always, but this time on the side of maritime transport.
01:10The Spanish company Valeria has announced the next launch of a fully electric maritime line
01:15linking the ports of Tarifa to Cadix and Tangier.
01:19This public-private project of a 100% green first maritime corridor between Spain and Morocco
01:24will contribute to the electrification of the port infrastructure of the two banks of the Strait of Gibraltar.
01:30The new line will be the fastest and most sustainable corridor between Europe and Africa,
01:35with two electric ships specifically designed for the Tangier-Tarifa link.
01:40Note that the construction of the new electric ferries for this link is part of Valeria's strategy,
01:46aiming to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
01:51We stay in Africa.
01:52The energy sector in Nigeria has accumulated around $ 6.7 billion in investments during 2024.
02:02The share of the link of this envelope has been absorbed by the oil and gas sector,
02:06having totaled $ 5.5 billion in investments in the course of the previous year.
02:12According to a recent official report, $ 700 million has been invested in sustainable mobility projects.
02:19Nigeria has set ambitious objectives in terms of oil production this year,
02:25averaging an average of 2.062 million barrels per day
02:29against a current average of 1.7 million barrels per day.
02:34The country could attract $ 5 billion in gas investments by 2029.
02:42Direction now France.
02:44The number of companies created reached a record in 2024,
02:48with an increase of 5.7% compared to 2023.
02:52According to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies,
02:561.11 million companies were created in the previous year.
03:01The number of micro-entrepreneur-based companies has increased by 7.3%
03:07and that of companies by 5.4%,
03:10while the number of classic individual companies has decreased by 3.2%.
03:18And then, the sector's activity has declined in the eurozone,
03:21with growth in January after two months of contraction,
03:25according to the PayMeFlash index published by S&P Global.
03:28The index, calculated on the basis of company surveys,
03:32rose to 50.2 against 49.6 in December.
03:37The improvement of the conjuncture has largely relied on Germany's performance,
03:42which saw its global activity rise again at the beginning of the year.
03:47Globally, the best dynamics in the eurozone result
03:50in an improvement of the situation in the manufacturing sector.
03:57In international economic news,
03:59Meta plans to invest nearly $65 billion in 2025
04:05in the development of artificial intelligence.
04:07This major investment aims to strengthen the group's technological capabilities,
04:12notably through the construction of a huge data center,
04:16and increasing recruitment in the field.
04:18According to Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
04:22this data center will be of unprecedented size
04:24and will contribute to the increase in Meta's computing power,
04:28which aims to reach more than 1.3 million units of graphical processing by the end of 2025.
04:36This announcement comes in the context of strong competition,
04:39two days after OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle unveiled a $100 billion contract
04:46to develop artificial intelligence infrastructures in the United States.
04:52We come to the end of our edition today.
04:54Good program sequel on our antenna.