First batch of mobile bridges arrives in the country – Mozambique’s Disaster Management Institute

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First batch of mobile bridges arrives in the country – Mozambique’s Disaster Management Institute

2:15 CAT | 24 Oct 2016

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The Director General of the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), Joao Machatine, was quoted by the Diario de Moçambique on Friday as saying that the first batch of mobile bridges is due to arrive in Mozambique this week, with a second batch arriving in the first half of November.

The bridges have been bought against the rainy season now starting and comprise three models: one 21 metres long, another 75 metres long and the third, considered the most valuable, 45 metres long but able to be moved in extension.

Machatine said that the bridges cost just over US$11 million, paid for out of the state budget. revealed that the repayment period is two-and-a-half years, starting next year, but said that “each year we have to budget the value inherent to the payment of these platforms”. The bridges will be pre-positioned in Zambezia province, where the Licungo river presents a high risk of floods closing roads.

Source: Folha de Maputo