Watch: Maputo-Catembe bridge deck arrives in Maputo

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Watch: Maputo-Catembe bridge deck arrives in Maputo

11:21 CAT | 28 Sep 2017

The ship carrying the 57 deck modules for the Maputo-Katembe bridge arrived at the port of Maputo at around 1:30 p.m. yesterday, a milestone in the completion of the longest suspension bridge in Africa.

Silva Magaia, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maputo Sul Company, the company in charge of the project, describes the arrival of the deck as the main event in the process, adding that the structure will begin to take shape in a few days at most.

The start of assembly is scheduled for today, and minutes after the arrival of the modules yesterday, trial runs were being carried out.

Doubts about the works’ date of completion still persist however, as there have been delays, but the possibility of the bridge being ready by the end of this year has not been ruled out.

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The four-lane Maputo-Catembe Bridge is budgeted at US$725 million and will span about three kilometres.