Vehicle storage Marrakesh airport
 

Hi guys

Greetings from RAK. Just checked in my vehicle at customs in the airport here for a two week flight out of the country, and the officials told me, "next time, just bring the papers, not the car".

I asked him twice what that meant and he was emphatic, no longer necessary to store car at the airport customs. I asked him when the rule had changed, he said "last Monday".

I tested him, saying, so next time I can just leave my truck in Sidi Kaouki? And he said yes.

So there seems to be a rule change, but my french is not good enough to get more info than this. Maybe someone else can confirm.

A Moroccan friend was telling me on Friday that you don’t need to store the car with customs. But I think that was more of a ‘anything can be arranged in Morocco’ situation than knowledge of the rules changing


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If they have facilitated storing in another place that would be great.
You could do it in the past but there was some more bureacracy involved.

I did it in the past in Ouarzazate. They wanted the keys... or at least one of my sets of keys :)

Well I will be picking up my truck next week and will ask again, maybe get a confirmation. But I even asked, "can I just leave it at my friends' house, and the customs guy said yes. So it will be interesting to see if I get the same answer. Will ask about Dakhla also.

Excuse my ignorance here, but whats the reason for this, is it that if you want to leave the country for a period of time you must check your vehicle out? Need to know as I want to spend a few months in Morocco but will have to come back to UK once a month for work.

The vehicle is linked to your passport CIN number, you have to register it in Customs or you will get flagged at whatever crossing. 6 months max for vehicle.

My friends leave their camper van in the pay car park which is outside the front of marrakech airport and then just leave a key and docs with customs, they have done this for at least the last couple of years