Mozambique: Beira street rehabilitation project to acquire its own asphalt production equipment

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Mozambique: Beira street rehabilitation project to acquire its own asphalt production equipment

7:42 CAT | 13 Jun 2025

File photo: O País

The Municipality of Beira is to acquire modern asphalt production equipment, with a view to rehabilitating more than 200 kilometres of roads, some of which has seen no intervention since national independence, making them now practically impassable.

Driving on the secondary roads that connect the neighbourhoods of the city of Beira continues to be a real ordeal, the situation getting worse with each passing day.

Beira municipality is aware of the problem, and told our reporter this Tuesday that its days were numbered, the city council being now in the final phase of acquiring state-of-the-art equipment to rehabilitate these roads.

António Massuira, Director of Road and Bridge Maintenance in Beira, said that the file is currently before the Administrative Tribunal.

“We have already announced in the newspaper that the bidders for the concrete plant, the concrete spreader, the roller cylinder, and the pneumatic cylinder are being used. All of this equipment [acquisition project] is in the Administrative Tribunals case. After all of this process, I believe that by August, we will have all of this within the city,” he said confidently.

In the first phase, by December of this year, the city’s main roads will be paved.

“We will fill in the holes and rehabilitate the streets that have isolated holes,” Massuira explained. “As for the streets that already have potholes very close together, we will scarify them, improve the base and rehabilitate them.”

The municipality expressed concern about the useful life of the roads, taking into account that some drivers do not pay attention to the tonnage and drive on the streets with excess load for the capacity of a given road.

According to António Massuira, “for the next streets, the next works that we are doing, we will take into account the tonnage of these trucks. Today, the modern trucks that are on the road come loaded with 18 to 20 cubic meters, we are talking about 35 to 40 tons of cargo and our roads were not designed for that tonnage until now. In the colonial era, the maximum was 10 to 12 tons,” Massuira said

The municipality says that the asphalting of the highways in Beira will take place in parallel with the rehabilitation of roads using pavement and that, by the end of 2027, it will be possible to drive comfortably throughout the city.

Source: O País