/ 10 May 1999

LTA WINS ETHIOPIAN BID

CONSTRUCTION firm LTA Earthworks Africa announced in Johannesburg on Friday that it has won a major rehabilitation project valued at R200-million in Ethiopia. The project is a joint venture with CCC and Balfour Beatty and is financed by the World Bank. Peter Davies, LTA Earthworks’ general manager (Africa) said the Gewane-Mille project in Ethiopia consists of a 146 km section of main road constituting part of the international truck route that joins the capital Addis Ababa and the port of Djibouti.