December 22nd 2009 the Millennium Challenge Account-Tanzania (MCA-T) signed the first works contract with Sinohydro Corporation Ltd from China worth TZS 69.9 billion (approximately USD53.8 million) to upgrade the Tanga–Horohoro Road (65km) to bitumen standard.

In the picture above Mr. Bernard Mchomvu, MCA-T Chief Executive Officer and Mr. Qin Chao, Regional Director of Sinohydro Corporation Ltd, East African Branch signing a works contract for
upgrading Tanga-Horohoro Road Project. The event took place at MCA-T Office on 22nd December 2009.

This is the first major works contract to be signed since the signing of the $698.1 million grant extended by the USA Government through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). President George W. Bush and President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete signed the grant Agreement on the 17th February 2008. It is a five years development package designed to undertake projects impacting on poverty eradication. Covered sectors are transport, energy and water.