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More on the toll charges introduced for Macaneta bridge – AIM report
9:54 CAT | 18 Oct 2016
File photo / A view of the new bridge photographed during construction
The Maputo-South Development Company will from today begin to charge for vehicles crossing the bridge linking the town of Marracuene and the Macaneta peninsula, in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo.
The 300 metre long and 11 metre wide bridge across the Incomati River has replaced the ferry service which was slower, more expensive and unreliable.
The fee for the crossing is set at between 50 and 900 meticais (the US dollar is worth about 77 meticais at current exchange rates) with vehicles split into four classes.
Category I covers motorcycles and cars and minivans. These vehicles will be charged 50 meticais each way.
Category II covers tractors, caravans, small busses, and lorries with two axles. These will be charged 80 meticais.
Category III covers heavier vehicles with three or four axles, which will be charged 350 meticais.
Lastly, Category IV covers vehicles with five or more axles, which will be required to pay 900 meticais.
These charges are much lower than the cost of using the ferry. For example, cars used to pay 180 meticais for the ferry service.
Source: AIM
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