Chinese firm for Nigerian contract

A road construction contract worth US$1.07 billion has been awarded to China Railway Construction in Nigeria. The Ministry of Delta Affairs of Nigeria awarded the package of works for Section V of the A121 East-West highway to China Civil Engineering Construction, a division of China Railway Construction.
January 24, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
A road construction contract worth US$1.07 billion has been awarded to China Railway Construction in Nigeria. The Ministry of Delta Affairs of Nigeria awarded the package of works for Section V of the A121 East-West highway to China Civil Engineering Construction, a division of 890 China Railway Construction.

The work is expected to take five years to complete and includes design as well as construction. When it is complete, the A121 will connect Nigeria’s two main North-South highways. Its route runs from the A1 highway at Shagamu in Ogun State to the A2 highway at Benin City in Edo State.

The completion of the highway will boost the economy of the country’s south-east region, providing a better link from Nigeria’s economic centre Lagos to the eastern city of Calabar. This will reduce journey times and also help to boost trade for the agricultural sector in the highly fertile but depressed areas of Nigeria’s south-east.

The new highway will also help boost Nigeria’s imports and exports, which currently rely on the port of Lagos. In the future the ports of Port Harcourt, Warri and Calabar will also be able to carry greater quantities of freight.

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