By Taurai Mangudhla in Masvingo
Government and Geiger International are expected to meet all preconditions set to kick-start dualisation of the $1 billion Harare-Beitbridge Highway by end of September, a senior Government official has said.
Geiger International is an Australian firm that won the tender to construct the massive project expected to take at least three years. Director for roads operations in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development Engineer Kudzanai Chinyanga, told The Herald Business on the side-lines of a Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe (Cifoz) annual general meeting and congress in Masvingo yesterday that work on key infrastructure is expected to commence soon.
"One of these conditions is exemption on taxes and duties on equipment that is coming in because if that doesn't come, it means the cost is the agreed amount, plus taxes," said Eng Chinyanga who was standing in for Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo.
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