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1:13 CAT | 15 Mar 2018
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EN4 road concessionaire TRAC has signalled several factors in the delayed completion of roadworks begun in May 2017 and scheduled for completion in December of this year.
“Rainfall figures for the last three years were used in preparing the contract, and this year it rained more than it had in other years. We also had some work rejected by inspectors which the contractor had to re-do. And there was a fire in the asphalt plant, which forced a stoppage of at least one week and had to be repaired,” company spokesman Fenias Mazive said.
For these reasons, according to AIM, the completion deadline has been pushed back to March 2019.
The works on the section of the EN4 in questions will provide four lanes in each direction, with costs estimated at 2.4 billion meticais (one dollar is equivalent to about 62 meticais at current exchange rates).
The work includes constructing the two new lanes, widening bridges and drainage, constructing further drains, sidewalks and covered stops and installing lighting.
Mazive also reported on work on the Ressano Garcia-Moamba section of the EN4 in the southern Maputo province, which consists of track pavement, replacing metal barriers, signage, railings and supports and repairing bridges.
Work started in April 2017 and was scheduled to end next December, but the revised completion date is now April 2019. The works are so far approximately 80 percent complete.
The section is about 39.6 kilometres long and will cost about 808 million meticais.
The EN4 concession contract was signed by the Mozambican and South African governments in May, 1997.
Source: O País
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