{"id":63952,"date":"2026-06-19T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63952"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:00:38","slug":"moroccan-competition-council-fuel-cartels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63952","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan Competition Council Report Exposes Fuel Cartels, Highlighting State Protection of Corporate Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by Morocco&#39;s Competition Council has shed light on systemic issues within the country&#39;s fuel sector. The findings, which track the commitments of gasoline and diesel companies, reveal significant structural imbalances. Despite official narratives promoting market liberalization and the entry of new players by 2025, the data indicates a persistence of inherent flaws. Notably, local storage capacities remain frozen, and a concentration of power among a few key entities continues to dominate the market.<\/p>\n<h2>Moroccan fuel sector report<\/h2>\n<p>The report underscores how these structural deficiencies appear to benefit a select group of large corporations, often referred to as &#39;whales,&#39; at the expense of Moroccan consumers. The council&#39;s investigation aims to unravel the complex web of influence and identify mechanisms that perpetuate these market dynamics, raising questions about the extent to which state policies inadvertently or intentionally safeguard these entrenched interests over public welfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related topics:<\/strong> Morocco fuel market, Competition Council report, fuel cartels, energy sector Morocco, consumer prices Morocco, Algeria<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch provides English-language coverage of Algeria-focused developments for international readers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco&#8217;s Competition Council report uncovers fuel sector imbalances, revealing how alleged cartels and state policies may favor corporate interests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}