TEMA; AFCONS Infrastructure open to more opportunities ahead of $20 million bridge construction on Volta lake- Executive Director

Posted on November 4, 2019

The Executive Director of the AFCONS Infrastructure Limited, contractors on the Mpakadam Railway Project, Akhil Gupta, has expressed optimism of his company partnering government to address the infrastructure deficit facing the country.

He made the statement ahead of Tuesday’s Sod Cutting of a 20-million-dollar railway bridge on the Volta Lake by the President of , Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo.

The 400 meters railway bridge to be constructed by AFCONS Infrastructure on the Volta Lake would be two and half downstream off the Adomi Bridge in the .

Ahead of the project, the Executive Director of the company Akhil Gupta, spoke on the company’s plans for the 20 million dollars, adding that it intends to improve with respect to infrastructure in the country.

Mr Gupta in an interview with Atinka Tv, said the impending project which would be very challenging, will give them the needed boost to bid for other projects in the country, judging from their high portfolio of major projects undertaken in the Marine, Road, Port and Construction sectors across the globe.

He said the company is opened to the railway development in the Northern Region of the country as well as the rehabilitation of some major road networks in the capital, especially the Tema- Roads.

For his part, the Project Manager at AFCONS, U.V Singh said the 400 meters bridge project which would be completed in September 2020, would not only improve railway transportation in that suburb of the country but as well the country’s revenue since that stretch links to that of the landlocked countries including Burkina Faso.