In October 2002, the Africa and Middle East Region of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) organized a conference in Marrakech, Morocco to bring together aviation representatives from a number of Middle East and North African countries and US equipment and service suppliers to discuss potential opportunities in the aviation sector.
As part of this conference, decision analysis partners, contractor for USTDA, interviewed key decision makers from the countries represented to identify projects that could be suitable for USTDA assistance.