A joint venture of Portugal’s Mota-Engil and South Africa-based engineering company Concor Holdings Ltd. has won a $118-million contract for the construction of South Africa’s longest-span cable-stayed suspension bridge.
The bridge, with a span of 580 meters, is being built by state-owned South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd. (Sanral) over the 195-m-deep Msikaba gorge. It will be the second longest in Africa after the 680-m-long Maputo-Catembe bridge, which is also under construction. It is expected to be completed in 36 months and will create about 8,000 jobs during the construction period.