New tolls on EN6 road: The “scary fees” making the rounds – Carta

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New tolls on EN6 road: The “scary fees” making the rounds – Carta

3:19 CAT | 27 Nov 2019

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Three more suffocating tolls are impending on Mozambique’s roads, ‘Carta de Moçambique’ reports.

After the government last year approved what people felt to be prohibitive rates to cross the Maputo-KaTembe Bridge to KTembe and Matutuine, now it’s the turn of National Road Number 6 [EN6] users to feel the suffocating effect of Chinese credit and the proposed rates for the three tolls on the road linking the provincial capital of Sofala, Beira, to neighbouring Zimbabwe across the Machipanda border.

This Monday, a chart containing the fees to be charged at the Dondo, Nhamatanda and Chimoio tolls was making the rounds on social networks, with amounts ranging from 300 to 2,870 Meticais.

According to the chart, to which Carta has had access, for each crossing in Dondo toll in Sofala province, Class 1 vehicles will pay 90 Meticais, Class 2 will pay 220. Class 32 440 and Class 4 vehicles will be charged 650 Meticais.

At the Nhamatanda Toll, also in Sofala province, Class 1 vehicles will pay 250 Meticais, Class 2 vehicles 630, Class 3 1,260 and Class 4 vehicles 1,890 Meticais.

At the Chimoio Toll, Class 1 vehicles will pay 380 Meticais, Class 2 960 Meticais, Class 3 1,920 Meticais and Class 4 vehicles 2,870 Meticais

The chart which Carta has been quoting also indicates that local residents and all Class 1 and 2 semi-collective passenger transporters will be charged a monthly fee of 300 and 500 Meticais, respectively, to traverse all three tolls.

To reveal the rates and implementation details, the Provincial Directorate of Transport and Communications of Sofala this Tuesday convened a meeting with all users of National Road No. 6, one of the most important roads in the country.

The 288-km long EN6, which was rehabilitated and expanded by Chinese company Anhui Foreign Economic Construction (Group) Co., Ltd, was inaugurated on 14 November by President Filipe Nyusi. It cost US$410 million, financed by the China Export and Import Bank and the Government of Mozambique. The works started on April 1, 2015 and were due to end on March 31, 2018, but were delayed due to lack of funds needed to relocate families and businesses in the Inchope area.

Source: Carta de Moçambique