Duna Aszfalt Zrt. is participating as a professional and investment partner in the region’s highest-value, private infrastructure development coming from Europe. The company’s international activities continue to grow, highlighted by GED Africa Limited (GED Africa), its flagship PPP project company. The highly skilled, international experts’ team of GED Africa is working on a project of global economic importance: the construction of a new 184-kilometre road, along with a 345-metre, Hungarian-designed border bridge and modern border facilities, located across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Zambia. The bridge is being designed by the Hungarian company Speciálterv Építőmérnöki Kft.
Now this African megaproject can advance at full speed: new financial resources have been opened, giving the project new momentum. Work continues further under Hungarian professional expertise, with Duna Aszfalt’s professional investment and supervision.
After more than five years of project development and preparation work, construction began in spring 2025 using the company’s own resources—and significant progress has already been made. According to the plans, the entire infrastructure will be completed by the first quarter of 2027, establishing a new corridor of major importance for global trade on the border between the two African countries. Thanks to this project, Duna Group is set to become a global player in the infrastructure development market.
Hungarian specialists are continuously present at the African project site, and as an interesting tribute to our homeland, Hungary, the camps of those working on construction and operations—located on opposite sides of the project-affected section of the Luapula River—have been named after the Hungarian capital: Camp Buda on the western side and Camp Pest on the eastern side.
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In the heart of Africa, one of the region’s most significant infrastructure developments is being realised with the capital investment and professional guiding of Duna Group. This is the GED Africa megaproject — the company’s largest foreign investment. As a PPP project, it is currently Africa’s largest unique private infrastructure development financed from Europe, with Duna Aszfalt Zrt. serving as both the professional and investment partner.
The road, known as the Ged Africa Route, will connect Kasomeno in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Mwendas in Zambia. The 184-kilometre motorroad project includes the construction of a 345-metre cable-stayed border bridge. This is Duna Group’s largest project abroad, carried out by a combination of international and local contractors.
The investment involves the upgrading, construction and expansion of a 184-kilometre motorroad. The new route will cross a newly built 345-metre bridge and will reduce round-trip distances for commercial transport by nearly 500 kilometres between the mining regions of Haut-Katanga and the port of Dar es Salaam.
The road will have enormous significance in the region, as it shortens the transport route for globally considerable copper, cobalt and coltan extracted from local mines to Dar es Salaam, a major port in Tanzania on the Indian Ocean. Thanks to the GED Africa project, vehicles transporting these valuable materials — widely used, among others, in IT equipment — will no longer need to take a detour of several hundred kilometres or wait at the border for days. This will greatly reduce transport times and associated costs.
GED Africa is a 25-year PPP concession built through private investment, consisting of a three-year construction phase followed by 22 years of operation and maintenance of the completed infrastructure.
