AVIC International site manager Chen Yiju says the company is expected to complete major works on the Mongu-Kalabo Road by December, four months ahead of schedule.
Mr Chen said the company which is supposed to complete the project in April 2016, has done 80 percent of the works.
He said tarring of the road has already commenced, while the main bridge which is being built across the Zambezi River, is in its final stage.
Mr Chen said the main bridge is about 1.8 kilometres long, while the metal pillars that will hold it are 60 meters deep. The road has a total of 26 bridges.
Mr Chen said this on Friday when Mongu district commissioner Susiku Kamona visited the site.
“Work is progressing well and I am happy to inform you that we will be done with the major work between November and December. So far, tarring of the road has started, and we have already done seven kilometers of the 32 kilometers, he said.
Mr Chen, however, said the company is facing challenges with public motorists who are over-speeding on temporary bridges and roads.
“The speed limit for small cars is 40 kilometers per hour, while for trucks; it’s 50 kilometers per hour. If people do not want to heed to this, we will have no choice but to press charges which they will have to answer to later,” he said.
And Mr Kamona who was accompanied by Police Public Complaints Authority member Muyambago Mufaya, commended Avic International for the commitment that the company has exhibited throughout the project.
The district commissioner was also happy that Avic International was working in harmony with Zambian workers.
Avic has employed a total of 1,500 on the project.
“Avic should be commended because from the time they started the project, we have never heard of any [industrial] unrest, this is the way it should be,” he said.
why is it that we get to see only the old photos of the same bridge if the road is progressing?? Show us new developments on this road and can it finish soon please!!!!
You have eyes but you cant see, you can only see progress if your preffered president is in power,that is retrogressiveness
If you dont appreciate progress shut your mouth and A.s.s viva boma
MMD project
Thanx goes to late Presdent HE DR L.P.MWANAWASA & R.B for Road which started in RB’s term (2011).
Pipo that MONGU ~ KALABO ROAD is 5yrs project by that time it was costing K1.3 tr or Kr1.3 b.
DR MWANAWASA neva go KALOBA for the road.
M.H.S.R.I.P
Thanx goes to late President HE DR L.P.MWANAWASA & R.B for Road which started in RB’s term (2011).
Pipo that MONGU ~ KALABO ROAD is 5yrs project by that time it was costing K1.3 tr or Kr1.3 b.
DR MWANAWASA neva got KALOBA or IKONGOLE for that road.
M.H.S.R.I.P
At least Dr Scott used to work…. File pictures are proving so…. What a useless constitution we have which barred him from becoming president.
Why do trucks have faster speed limit than small cars? That is strange. By the wayi s this speed limit temporary during construction or that’s whati t will be afterthere road is completed. I ask because it’s sounds slow to me.
I’m hoping quality standards are being adhered to so that we won’t have any maintenance issues soon after the road is completed. And I hope big water vessels will still be able to pass through this road/bridge. Anyway I’m sure the locals can’t wait until it is finished.