BUSINESS NEWS

Beitbridge-Masvingo highway project begins

Work to widen and upgrade the Beitbridge-Masvingo highway has finally begun in Chivhu with graders and earthmoving equipment now busy carrying out detour works on the first 10 kilometer stretch.The pr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 November 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Dualisation of the Mutare-Plumtree highway taking shape

The dualisation of the Mutare-Plumtree highway is taking shape with the government expected to commission the Ruwa-Goromonzi up to Melfort tollgate stretch which have been dualised while the construct...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim engages Chinese firm over highway road

Government is engaging a new contractor from China, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC), for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge and Harare-Chirundu highways after it withdr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Makuti-Chirundu highway deal to create 250 jobs

A DEAL signed by Zimbabwe and Japan last week to improve steep gradients on the Makuti-Chirundu section of the north-south corridor will create 250 jobs, according to a statement by the Ministry of Fi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chinese eye $3bn Zimbabwe highway tender

CHINESE firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction (Group) Co Limited (AFECC) could clinch the $3 billion contract to resurface the long-awaited Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, NewsDay reported.Top ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt engages Chirundu highway contractor

GOVERNMENT is engaging a Chinese Company, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC), for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway after it withdrew a tender that had b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Complete markings along Harare-Bulawayo Highway

KADOMA residents have called on Government and the contractor who upgraded the Harare-Bulawayo Highway to put road carriage markings such as zebra crossings on portions of the highway within the city ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare-Nyamapanda highway dualisation soon

Dualisation of the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway is set to commence this year as Government moves to reduce road carnage, a Cabinet minister has said.Addressing people at Hurungwe Primary School in Murehw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Harare highway: A sad reminder that nothing has changed

Under a gigantic Zanu-PF colourful election campaign billboard covered with the image of a half-smiling president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a small stall manned by a middle-aged vendor sell...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe cancels Gieger's highway tender

Government has officially cancelled Geiger International's tender for dualisation of the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway after the lapse of a 60-day ultimatum for the company to begin works, and Ca...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

D-Day for Geiger over BB/Harare/Chirundu highway

An Austrian company that won the tender for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, Geiger International, has up to tomorrow to deliver proof of funds for the project, failure of wh...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's deadliest highway

At least 44% of road fatalities in the country occur along the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Mutare highway which was resurfaced a few years ago at a cost of over $200 million, Transport minister Joram Gumbo has ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Plumtree highway perimeter fence commissioned

The government through the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe has completed the erection of a perimeter fence for the 100 kilometer stretch of the Bulawayo-Plumtree highway in a move that will signifi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

New contractor gets Chirundu-BB highway tender

GOVERNMENT has awarded the $2 billion Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation project to a new contractor, replacing Austrian contractor Geiger International, which was booted out recently for ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chiwenga instigated cancellation of Zim highway tender

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to cancel Geiger International contract to dualise the BeitBrigde-Harare-Chirundu highway was instigated by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's “serious pro...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Confusion over Zim's $1billion highway tender

Confusion has rocked the long-delayed Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project, with Transport and Infrastructure Development minister, Joram Gumbo, insisting government has not cancelle...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Geiger loses $1bn Zimbabwe highway tender

Cabinet has resolved to withdraw the tender awarded to Austrian firm, Geiger International, for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway, President Mnangagwa announced yesterday.Brief...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Beitbridge-Harare highway dualisation takes shape

Officials from Geiger International, the company contracted for the dualisation of the Beitbridge - Masvingo - Harare highway are now on the ground identifying sites to set up bases, with machinery fo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Local firms assured of 40% Harare-Beitbridge highway dualisation stake

MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Josaya Hungwe has assured indigenous civil engineering firms that they will get their 40% share of road construction jobs in the dualisation of the Harare-Masving...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 February 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chirundu highway to create youth jobs

GOVERNMENT has assured youths in Mashonaland West that they will benefit from employment created through the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway.The Harare-Chirundu Highway, which st...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 November 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Highway dualisation project gets national status

Government has granted national project status to the 3million  Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project following months of protracted negotiations. dualisation project following months o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 October 2017

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Lafarge banks on highway upgrade

LAFARGE Cement Zimbabwe, a member of the Swiss-headquartered LafargeHolcim, last week reported declines in volumes and turnover for the half year ended June 30, 2017 but hopes major public infrastruct...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim, SA to establish clinics on major highways

ZIMBABWE and South Africa have agreed to establish clinics along major highways to cater for cross border truck drivers within the region so that they can access HIV health related services.South Afri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 August 2017

COMPANIES

Masvingo-Beitbridge highway accident - four people die

Four people died, three of them on the spot, when a minibus they were travelling in burst a rear tyre and veered off the road before landing on its roof in Mwenezi along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highwa...

By Staff Reporter | Published: 27 April 2013
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