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Mozambique: Mobile metal bridges leave Sofala for Catandica and Boane
5:45 CAT | 20 Feb 2023
Photo: Ministério das Obras Públicas, Habitação e Recursos Hídricos-MOPHRH
Two metal bridges have left the National Roads Administration (ANE) facilities in Dondo district, Sofala, for Boane in Maputo province and Catandica in Manica province, where road connections are severely affected by bad weather.
Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources Carlos Mesquita visited the ANE premises on Sunday and announced that some material had already left Sofala province for Maputo and Manica, where it would be deployed to re-establish interrupted road connections.
In Boane, where the metal bridges should arrive tomorrow at the latest, preparations for the assembly of the bridges have already been finalised.
The metal bridges stored in the Dondo district of Sofala were acquired with support from the World Bank and the African Development Bank in the aftermath of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth.
Minister Mesquita recommended that the ANE deploy the emergency bridges at two more strategic locations in the north and south of the country to respond more promptly to emergency situations anywhere.
In Manica, provisional transitability has already been restored on the N7 connecting through to Tete province.
Mesquita said that definitive works will be carried out as soon as the weather conditions allow, and that these would include widening to two lanes. Studies were also underway to improve routing in the municipal town of Catandica, he said.
Source: Carta de Moçambique / Ministério das Obras Públicas, Habitação e Recursos Hídricos-MOPHRH
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