Daimler Buses has secured an order for 500 city buses for Morocco.
The customer is Spanish bus company, ALSA which is part of British National Express Group and has been operating bus routes in Morocco since 1999.
The order comprises 420 Mercedes-Benz Conecto solo buses and 80 articulated Mercedes-Benz Conecto G buses (150 buses are purchased on behalf of the Authority “L’ECI Al Baida” of Casablanca).
The vehicles will be equipped in accordance with the Euro VI emissions norm and will be used in the Casablanca where they will serve to renew the present fleet. The city buses will be produced in Daimler Buses’ Turkish plant and will be delivered successively until the end of 2020.
Daimler’s bus division benefits from its Regional Centres established in 2015, such as the Regional Centre for North Africa.