China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has been given the mandate to construct the 3.2km road from Regent to Limkokwing by the Chinese government.
After providing about $30 million to construct the Regent-Jui Road a few years ago, former President, Ernest Koroma, pleaded with the Chinese government to complete the road from Regent to Hill Station.
The Chinese government agreed and last year they sent a team of experts in collaboration with Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) to do the survey and costing, which was done and the Ministry of Commerce in China then put out the bid for the road that CCECC won.
Currently, the company is preparing the ground to start the construction as they are currently doing survey on the road.
A Mr Wang, who is in charge of the road, said some parts of the road has temporary buildings that needs to be taken down and they are working with the government to get the road prepared before they start construction.
“Presently the road is getting heavy and we will have to wait until the dry season before we can start. We hope to finish it within the shortest possible time and it will be a four-lane road from Limkokwing to Regent where the two roads divide.”
CCECC constructed the housing estate at Beach Road Lumley. CCECC was established in June 1979 under the approval of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.
It performs international contracting and economic cooperation, CCECC has been developed from the earlier Foreign Aid Department of the Ministry of Railways with the experience of executing the biggest foreign-aid project of China, the TAZARA into a large-scale state-owned enterprise for project contracting.
The business activities of CCECC have expanded to over 40 countries and regions where more than 20 overseas offices or subsidiaries have been established. CCECC has been listed among the world’s top 255 international contractors for many years and ranked consecutively among the first 70 in recent years by the Engineering News Record “ENR”.
AT/17/7/18
By Austin Thomas
Thursday July 19, 2018.
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