Source: Surveying begins for Hre-Beitbridge road – DailyNews Live
STAFF WRITER 22 September 2017
HARARE – Surveying of the Harare-Beitbridge highway has started from
Skyline to Beatrice under an agreement with the Austrian contractor Geiger
International.
The highway is Zimbabwe’s busiest and most economically significant, and
is part of the North-South Corridor that directly links landlocked
Zimbabwe and Zambia with access to the Indian Ocean ports of Durban and
Richards Bay in South Africa.
The project is expected to take up to two years.
Transport minister Jorum Gumbo told the National Assembly that Geiger
International got about 82 names of surveyors from Zimbabwe and they only
chose six.
“They have finished working from Skyline to Beatrice, which is the first
phase. Beatrice to Chivhu is the second phase. Third phase is from Chivhu
to Mvuma.
“As I am speaking, the engineers are on the ground doing the work.
Surveyors will start work and then designers will follow. They do all the
preliminaries before the actual work starts,” Gumbo said.
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