Tunisia receives two bids for Tunis-Bizerte viaduct contract: Tunisia has reportedly received bids from Sichuan Road & Bridge Group and China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group for the contract to design and build its 2.1 km Tunis-Bizerte viaduct, Meed reports.

What we know: The bid submitted by Sichuan Road & Bridge Group was TD 610 mn (USD 197.5 mn), while China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group offered TD 840 mn (USD 272 mn) for the contract, Meed reports. Tunisia’s Equipment, Housing, and Land Planning Ministry qualified in 2022 eight of the 13 companies and consortiums that submitted statements of qualifications for the contract.

The financing: The European Investment Bank(EIB) and African Development Bank are co-financing the viaduct — along with other related projects — through loans of EUR 123 mn (pdf) each.

About the project: The Tunis-Bizerte viaduct is part of a larger 9.5 km expressway designed to link Tunis to the town of Bizerte, comprising a southern road, a northern road, and the viaduct, which will cross a canal with three spans, according to the AFDB statement. The project should help foster trade by addressing the increased demand for cargo and passenger traffic at the crossing of Bizerte, which in turn would decongest access to three industrial zones and a port and bolster movement between the north and east regions of Tunisia.

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