Mozambique is looking for a loan the equivalent of R770 million to build an airport on a 4 000-hectare site in its southern Gaza province.
The feasibility and environmental impact studies have both been completed. All that awaits is the bucks. And the government is shaking its begging bowl before the Export-Import Bank of China to approve the loan so it can build Chongoene airport – in a resort area only just on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Xai-Xai.
It is aimed at creating a boom in tourism in the region, which currently has one of the most attractive beaches in Mozambique, the minister of transport and communications, Carlos Mesquita, told the press.
Mesquita stressed that there were plans to build a dam on the Limpopo River, in Mapai district, as well as a project to explore heavy sands in Chibuto. And all these activities, he told macauhub.com, required an airport to allow people involved in these projects to travel more easily.
