Rabat – Strong growth in exports from Lombardy to Morocco, + 28.7% in 2016 over the previous year, for a value of over 300 million Euros in nine months. It is the only Mediterranean country in Africa, with Egypt (+ 13%), to which Lombardy increases its exports. The most active areas are: Milan, with 40.4% of regional exports, Monza and Brianza with 11.9%, Bergamo with 11.5% and Brescia with 10.7%. Strong growth in Monza and Brianza that doubles their figures rising from 19 to 39 million euro (+ 103.9%), Pavia (+ 61.8%), Mantova (+ 59.6%), Como (+ 40.5%) and Milan (+ 34.1%). Exports involve especially machineries (21%, + 34.6%), followed by chemical products (12.2%) and metal (11.6%). It emerges from an evaluation of the Milan Chamber of Commerce on ISTAT figures in the first nine months of 2016 and 2015 on the occasion of the mission to Casablanca of Fabrizio Sala, vice president of the region and about twenty companies in Lombardy (home system , building and construction, fashion, footwear and clothing) who followed the path of internationalization proposed by Promos, special agency of the Milan Chamber of commerce for international activities, within the project “accompanying trails in strategic markets for the Lombard economic system” also involving Unioncamere Lombardia. (9colonne)
