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This road will be the sixth project built to develop road infrastructure around Kuraz Sugar Project.
The Ethiopian Roads
Authority (ERA) has started to connect the Omo Kuraz Sugar Project with
Turmi, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities & People's Regional
State, 656.8Km from the capital.
The Authority signed an agreement with
two local companies to construct the project which will cost 15.4
million Br a kilometer.
This road will be
the sixth project built to develop road infrastructure around the Omo
sugar project. All the roads have already passed the 50pc completion
mark. The project is expected to facilitate the production of sugar in
the factory.
The new road
project will help the company to supply sugar and sugar products to
other market outlets. It will also contribute to boosting tourist inflow
to the Omo Valley.
Afro Tsion Plc and
Rama Construction were the local companies awarded contracts to
undertake the 63.3Km long road project in the coming three years. Both
companies were established in the late 1990s.
Afro Tsion
Construction Plc has participated in the construction of road projects
such as the Jimma University compound asphalt road and Philipose Bridge
in Addis Abeba.
Rama Construction
previously won a 100 million Br contract to build government owned
projects including the Tsegede junction-Ketema Nigus road, which cost
almost half a billion Br.
The Authority also
signed two other contracts in conjunction with the Omo-Turmi road.
Located in three regional states, the total cost of the projects is 2.7
billion Br. The Omo Turmi road project is the most expensive of all road
projects.
"The volume of work
is high compared to other projects," said Samson Wondimu, communication
director of the Authority, explaining the reason behind the high cost
of the Omo-Turmi project, which involves building drainage systems and
bridges.
Besides Omo-Turmi,
Rama and Afro Tsion have also inked a to construct the Robe-Gasera
asphalt road project. The two companies will undertake the project
jointly, to build the path at a cost of 13.2 million Br. The length of
the road will be 60Km long and 19 meters wide.
It will help to
facilitate trade with central parts of the country. Robe and Gamera are
known for their wheat and sorghum production. It will also contribute to
enhancing road infrastructures for tourists who come to visit the Sof
Omar Caves, and Dinsho and Sente parks.
The Gambella- Elia
Road is the biggest of all the awarded projects and will cost a billion
Br, even though its per kilometer cost is lower, only 13.1 million Br.
The project will involve upgrading of gravel roads to asphalt.
Orchid Business
Group Ltd won the contract to construct the road project. The project is
the second for the company which also built the Sawla Qaqo Road.
Owned and managed
by Akiko Seyoum, Orchid is a business group composed of different
investment companies, transport, machinery rental, transit,
construction, horticulture and other businesses.
The Gambella- Elia
road project will help companies in the area such as Saudi Star
agro-industries industries to sell their outputs to central parts of the
nation.
This year, the
Authority has so far awarded 28 road projects worth close to 24.4
billion Br. The country's road networks have reached over 113,000Km,
doubling over the past five years.
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