At this location around 65 km downstream from the Kariba Dam the river is about 400 m wide.

[1] The bridges were once seen as part of a Cape to Cairo Road and thus are on the Harare to Lusaka section of the route.

The second Chirundu Bridge was built by the Kajima Corporation in 2000–2002 and opened on 12 December 2002.

It is 90 metres upstream from the Otto Beit Bridge, using the same approaches and border control area.

As counterpart contribution to the new Chirundu Bridge, both the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe were to upgrade their respective Border Facilities to enhance smoother flow of traffic and quicker processing of cross-border trading documents, with eventual view to convert the Border to a One-Stop Border Facility.