The Ministry of Public Works and Housing has announced that the construction of a new bridge over the Zambezi River by Tete city is to begin this year. It is due for completion within three to four years, at a projected cost of EUR70m (US$95m), with financing from donors and the government. The new bridge is intended to ease capacity constraints for the sole existing bridge at Tete, completed in the 1970s, and will be 6 km away in an undeveloped area outside the city. The bridge will be for use primarily by heavy goods vehicles, around 800 of which use the existing bridge every day.

The Tete corridor is an important logistical point both for Mozambique and the region, involving transit traffic destined for Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Investment in transport and other infrastructure in Tete is both a cause and an effect of an economic boom in the area resulting from millions of dollars-worth of investment in Mozambique's emergent coal mining industry. Air transport links at Tete are also improving, and since last year the area has had a direct service to South Africa with SA Airlink, which added an additional weekly flight in January.