Suai – Beaco motorway

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The four-lane highway Suai-Beaco ( Portuguese Autoestrada Suai-Beaco ) to three industrial clusters in the south after the completion of East Timor constituencies to serve as part of the Tasi Mane project, the development of the region. It is the first ever motorway in the Southeast Asian country. The motorway is being built in cooperation with the People's Republic of China as part of the Belt and Road initiative .

The maximum permissible speed on the flat is 100 kilometers per hour, in mountainous regions 60 kilometers per hour. The entire route from Suai to Beaco should be completed in two hours.

Technical studies were started in 2011, after which the ownership of the required building land was determined and the compensation paid for more than 289 hectares of land and real estate. The China Overseas Engineering Group Co., Ltd., in a joint venture with the China Railway First Group Co., Ltd (COVEC-CRFG), received the construction contract for the first section for 304 million US dollars. The compensation for the necessary expropriations cost an additional 9.28 million US dollars. 2000 jobs were created for local workers, who made up 80 percent of the workforce. The actual construction began in 2016.

On November 17, 2018 the were community Cova Lima , the first 30.4 km highway between the town of Suai ( 9 ° 19 '22.8 "  S , 125 ° 14' 36.9"  O ) and the place Fatukaho (Fatukahu) Opened at Mola ( 9 ° 10 ′ 35 ″  S , 125 ° 27 ′ 19.2 ″  E ) by Minister Ágio Pereira . The Chinese ambassador to East Timor Xiao Jianguo was also present . The section includes ten bridges, four crossings, 20 viaducts , 20 drainage basins and 60 canals. Only a few days later, the highway near Suai was flooded by heavy rain.

On the second section with 34.3 kilometers to Dotik , the acquisition of the building land is to begin in 2019 and construction work to begin in 2020. Section 3 leads kilometers to Buikarin and the last section to Beaco in the municipality of Viqueque over 36 kilometers. After completion, the motorway will have a total length of 151.6 kilometers.

The motorway is part of the Tasi Mane development project (after the name of the Timor Sea on Tetum ), which provides infrastructure measures for almost the entire south coast of East Timor and is a core project of the government. The main facility is to be a refinery for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Betano , which comes from the deposits in the Timor Sea. In addition, a port is to be created. In Suai, a supply base is planned at the newly expanded Suai Airport , with a logistics, residential and industrial zone. An LNG plant is to be built in Beaco.

However, it is controversial whether, as requested by the government, the gas can even be piped from there to Timor instead of to Darwin in Australia . The companies involved so far doubt this.

In March 2019, heavy rains caused massive damage to the motorway. The road collapsed over a distance of 50 meters in the Suco Labarai .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Timor Agora: Primeiro troço de autoestrada em Timor-Leste inaugurado hoje no sul do país , November 17, 2018 , accessed on December 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China: Remarks of Ambassador Xiao Jianguo on the Inauguration Ceremony of Suai Highway , November 19, 2018 , accessed December 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d East Timorese Government: ON THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF SECTION 1 (SUAI FATUKAHU / MOLA) OF THE HIGHWAY , November 17, 2018 , accessed on December 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Timor Agora: Deputadu Opozisaun Sira Husu Governu Toma Atensaun Ba Auto Estrada Suai , November 30, 2018 , accessed December 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Government Program of the Fifth Government of East Timor (English), accessed on December 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b La'o Hamutuk: South Coast Petroleum Infrastructure Project , November 16, 2013 , accessed December 30, 2013.
  7. ↑ Michael Leach: In Timor-Leste, at eventful year ends in tension , December 14, 2018 , accessed on December 22, 2018.
  8. ↑ LUSA: Timor e as autoestradas que se afundam , March 18, 2019 , accessed on March 19, 2019.