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   AFRICA
   MOTA-ENGIL COMPLETES NACALA – MALAWI
ROAD CORRIDOR
INAUGURATION OF MAIN NATIONAL ROAD NO. 11 WARRANTED THE PRESENCE OF SEVERAL FIGURES WHO OBSERVED THE QUALITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SECTION WITH 111 KM.
        A fter the completion of the work in the city of Milange, in the
Mozambican province of Zambezia, the inauguration of the section of main national road No. 11‐Milange/ Alto Benfica, with a length of 111 km, took place. This road construction work was totally carried out by Mota‐Engil Africa‐Mozambique.
The inauguration was attended, among other individuals, by the President of the Republic of Mozambique and by the Minister of Public Works, as well as by the highest representatives of the cooperation relations between Mozambique and the European Union, as well as by ANE (Administração Nacional de Estradas – Mozambican National Road Administration), with
Mota‐Engil Mozambique being represented by its CEO, Aníbal Leite.
Regarding the route now inaugurated,
it should be noted that it is part of the axis next to the border that separates Mozambique from Malawi, near the city of Milange, and ends in the vicinity of the town of Alto Benfica.
Road No. 11 was designed with a transversal profile type with 1x1 lanes, with a width of 3.50 m in each direction of traffic, plus hard shoulders with 1.50 m, for a total platform width of 10 m, and a design speed of 100 km/h defined for the section.
Construction work began with clearing of vegetation and surface stripping, earth
moving on the line (excavations for landfill and for disposal site) and, above all, major earth moving from borrow pits to landfill. The installed transverse drainage consisted of the construction of tubular drainage passes of various diameters, their mouths and finalised by the application of gabion walls and Reno type mattresses; in turn, the longitudinal drainage consisted of earth, concrete and mortar stone ditches, in addition to the construction of drains as lateral deep drainage.
The structural surfaces, supported by a bed layer (psa) made up of selected soils, consisted of the execution of a subbase course, also in selected soils, and a base course formed by a mixture of crushed aggregate of variable granulometry with
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