Mozambique completes prequalification of investors for 4.5-bln-USD hydroelectric project

MAPUTO, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique concluded Tuesday the prequalification of seven potential investors for the development of the Mphanda Nkuwa Hydroelectric Project (MNK), a 4.5-billion-U.S. dollar project on the Zambezi River in the western province of Tete.

The announcement was made at the end of an investors' conference in Maputo, the capital city, where the director-general of the project's implementation office Carlos Yum said that in the next two days the pre-qualified bidders, including two individual companies and five large consortiums, will visit the sites in Tete where the project will be implemented.