Chinese Firm Clinches Two-Third Addis Ababa Road Projects

Chinese Firm Clinches Two-Third of City’s 967mln Birr Road Projects

The Reporter (Addis Ababa)
NEWS
7 July 2007
Posted to the web 7 July 2007

By Hayal Alemayehu
Addis Ababa
Chinese Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), a Chinese construction firm which has been out bidding a number of road projects (including the ring road) in the country since it set foot in Ethiopia, on Friday clinched two-third of the Addis Ababa City Road Authority’s (AACRA) nine, 996.7 million birr worth road projects.

The firm outbid local and foreign rivals in five of the nine road projects, whose designs has been undertaken a year earlier by local designers. Of the nearly one billion birr worth road projects, CRBC will bag the ones worth over 600 million birr.

In addition to CRBC, another Chinese firm, named UE Industrial, has also managed to grab one of the nine projects. The 24.4 million birr worth project this company will undertake involves installing modern street lights along the roads the Authority itself constructed earlier, and those whose completion is pending.

The AACRA’s General Manager Fikade Haile has yesterday signed the agreements with the winning companies, which included two local construction firms, namely Hazi Construction and Eny. Construction.

According to the city’s latest road project contracts, the CRBC will construct four segments of asphalt roads stretching a total of 20 kilo meters and forty meters wide. The roads the Chinese firm will construct are Masqal Square – Kaliti road spanning 9 kilo meters, the juncture at Coca Cola factory – Teklehaimanot Road via Abnet square stretching 2.5 kilo meters, Africa Union-Pushkin Square-Mekanissa ring road square spanning 4.1 kilo meters and Sost Kutir Mazoria-Bisrate Gebriel-Tele-Desse Hotel road and Tele-Pushkin Square road together stretching 4.6 kilo meters.

CRBC has also won a billboard installing contract that will indicate various locations in the city for some 14 million birr.

Hazi Construction, a new local company engaged in the construction sector, has managed to win two of the nine projects worth over 200 million birr. Hazi construction will construct over 7kilo meters of asphalt roads from Mekanisa to Sebeta Menged and Mesqal Flower Hotel – Ethio-China Avenue – Bole Road and Bole Michael square – Bole Rwanda road.

The other local construction company which won one of the nine projects is Enniy Construction. This company will construct a 3.7 kilo meters road from Shola Gebeya to Lem Hotel to Anbessa Garage to Yerere Ber.

All the constructions are expected to be completed with in two- year period of time.