Project management on the first line was provided by Casablanca Transports en Site Aménagé SA ("Casa Transports"), a limited company created for the purpose in March 2009. Stakeholders were the Moroccan Ministry of Finance and the Interior, local government (the Grand Casablanca regional government, the Casablanca préfecture and Casablanca urban commune), and several institutional investors (King Hassan II, CDG Capital, Banque Populaire du Maroc, and ONCF, the state-owned railway).[7] Casa Transports awarded the construction contract to a global group headed by the French group Systra.[7] Project support was subcontracted to the Spanish group Ayesa Tecnología.[7]