Medea Province, whose passenger transport fleet ranks among the oldest, has published the list of operators affected by measures outlined in Ministerial Instruction No. 3455 of August 5, 2026, regarding the renewal of the road collective passenger transport fleet.
Consequently, around 58 dilapidated vehicles will undergo replacement with recent models that will modernize the collective passenger transport fleet across Medea Province.
The Director of Transport Administration, Merakech Walid, indicated that his departments began receiving vehicle replacement applications starting this Monday, specifying that only complete files meeting the required criteria will be accepted.
According to the official, the collective transport fleet renewal operation will unfold across six phases, spanning application submission, taking the old vehicle out of service, depositing it at the national recovery and recycling company, cancelling the registration certificate, securing a bank loan by the operator, purchasing a new vehicle from an Algerian supplier, and initiating the administrative procedure to put the new vehicle into circulation upon delivery of compliance documents issued by the mining department along with registration plate attribution.
Along the same lines, he noted that everything is in place to accelerate the withdrawal and decommissioning of vehicles affected by the renewal measure within a three to six-month window, while over 278 additional vehicles aged between 25 and 30 years have been cataloged for progressive withdrawal until the province’s collective transport fleet is completely sanitized.