China First Freeway Engineering Company has begun design work on the second section of a motorway that can run east–west between Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the port metropolis of Douala.
The beginning on the second stage was introduced by Nganou Djoumessi, the minister of public works. It is going to cowl the 141km between Bibodi and Douala, and is anticipated to price $1.5bn.
The highway is being seen by Cameroon as important to the event of the economic system. Throughout final month’s Sino-African discussion board, President Biya of Cameroon urged Beijing to allocate extra funding to Cameroon’s roads, with this scheme because the flagship of the programme.
In addition to enhancing communications between the nation’s two largest cities, the hyperlink will speed up financial integration all through the area. This contains the commerce corridors northeast to N’Djamenain, Chad, east to Bangui within the Central African Republic and south to Brazzaville within the Republic of the Congo.
Djoumessi famous that his authorities’s partnership with China First Freeway, which is a subsidiary of China Communications, mirrored the standard of its work the 60km first section of the challenge.
The choice to pick out the corporate was made by the presidency, concluding a variety course of that started in March 2020.
The highway is anticipated to be completed inside 36 months
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