Mozambique’s National Roads Administration (ANE) plans to acquire 48 metal bridges with a combined length of 2,040 metres to strengthen road resilience in the country’s north, with financing from the World Bank under the Climate-Resilient Roads for the North project.
According to the international tender notice, cited by Lusa, the procurement covers bridges of three different spans: 23 units of 30 metres, totalling 690 metres; ten units of 45 metres, totalling 450 metres; and 15 units of 60 metres, totalling 900 metres. The submission deadline is 2 October.
The tender also includes three sets of assembly equipment and three launching sets. All equipment is to be delivered to ANE’s construction yard in Namaita, Nampula province, with Nacala port serving as the initial reception point, within a maximum period of 240 days.
The procurement comes as Mozambique remains among the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, regularly exposed to floods, tropical cyclones, and other extreme weather events during the rainy season that affect regions across the national territory.
The scale of those impacts was evident in the most recent rainy season, from October 2025 to April this year. Data from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) show that 311 people died and more than one million were affected across different parts of the country during that period.
It is against this backdrop that ANE launched the tender, which does not identify prospective suppliers or reference specific companies. The initiative follows a memorandum of understanding signed in February 2026 between the governments of Mozambique and the United States for cooperation on the development of metal bridge infrastructure in the country.
At the time, both governments acknowledged the possibility of supplying and installing up to 112 structures through American companies. Sarah Troutman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of African Affairs at the US State Department, said the agreement would make it possible to ‘bring bridges to Mozambique and develop this critical area of infrastructure’.
Source: Diário Económico
Original article: https://www.diarioeconomico.co.mz/?p=535763
