📋 Tender Overview
The highway, which is around 1400 kilometers long, will connect the southern part of Angola with neighboring Namibia, to the northern part of Angola, with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The infrastructure will extend from the province of Cunene, in the south, to the provinces of Zaire and Cabinda, in the northwest of the country, and these two will be connected by a bridge.
The Chinese group is expected to complete studies and projects by "the middle or end of 2025", a stage in which it will invest "around 50 to 75 million dollars.
A public-private partnership, will include a subsequent concession and installation of tolls, "a modality in which the private sector assumes greater responsibility". The start of the actual construction of the project at the end of 2025 or in 2026, with the works estimated at "anything like 2.5 billion dollars".
The project "will be a development corridor" that will bring Angola closer to "connected regions, such as Southern Africa, Central Africa and North Africa" and leave Angolans "better prepared for the challenges that lie ahead. The construction of Angola's first highway, in the north-south corridor, was already part of the Operational Plan for Structuring Public-Private Partnerships, announced in October 2020.
