Of the amount, over $150 million will be used for roads on the Malawi side and the remaining $230 million on the Mozambique side.
The Minister of Transport and Communications, Mateus Magala, said that the project essentially aims to ensure that agricultural products are brought from the growing areas to major urban centers, thus allowing the connection between markets and creating conditions to transform the corridor into a space for industrialization.
The leader was speaking at the end of his recent working visit to the districts of Nacala-Porto and Nacala-a-Velha, where he was accompanied by the Malawian ministers of Transport and Public Works and of Land and Urban Planning, Samuel Kawale and Jacob Hara, respectively.