Work on a 300 kilometre stretch of road along National Road 6 is due to begin in June and will see the road being repaired and widened where necessary.

The work, awarded to China’s Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Corp (AFECC), will cost US$400 million and is intended to improve traffic on the roadwhich links the port of Beira, in Sofala, to the border town of Machipanda, in the Manica province.

One section of the road, a 30 kilometre stretch between Beira and Dondo will be widened in order to improve the road conditions for trucks heading for the port of Beira. Over 600 trucks a day carry goods from the port into Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The road will also be raised along sections near the Pungué River as well as the construction and replacement of bridges along the route that are in a poor state of repair.

The contract is scheduled to take three years to complete.

Source: macauhub