/ 22 August 2000

MOZAMBIQUE GETS FIRST CORRIDOR TOLLGATE

THE first tollgate has been opened at Moamba, on the Mozambican leg of the Maputo corridor toll road, Trevor Jackson, chief executive officer of Trans African Concessions (Trac) announced. The Moamba toll is the fourth of five planned tollgates that stretches along the N4 between Gauteng and Maputo. Jackson said that work is progressing ahead of schedule and the last of the five tollgates in Mozambique should be open by December. He added that his company which won the concession to build, maintain and operate the toll road, had already spent R1.1bn of the estimated R2bn construction budget.