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March 6, 2013
TRL has agreed to acquire the full shareholding in Appia Infrastructure Solutions (Appia UK). This agreement is said to strengthen the existing…
March 6, 2013
Around 17 million vehicles in Turkey could be fitted with electronic licence plates, under a proposed draft law. The move would see the addition of a…
March 6, 2013
A land dispute that has stalled the completion of the D11 motorway in the Czech Republic for more than 17 years is reportedly nearing its end. The…
March 6, 2013
Danilo Medina, president of the Dominican Republic, says the Cibao-Sur highway connecting the provinces of Santiago and San Juan is a high priority…
March 6, 2013
The debt owed by the Spanish Government’s Ministry of Works to infrastructure firm, Abertis, for the expansion of the AP-7 road in Catalonia stood at…
March 6, 2013
Taiwan is to benefit from major investment worth close to US$744 million in a highway construction project. The National Expressway Engineering…
March 6, 2013
Honda has developed processes that allow it to recycle the rare-earth minerals from nickel-hydrogen batteries. This is a significant step as the…
March 6, 2013
A major new highway project that will improve transport links to Dallas, Texas, has been won by a consortium. The US$1.37 billion project will be…
March 6, 2013
The latest data available from France reveals a continuing reduction in road safety fatalities. The Ministry of the Interior has produced figures…
March 6, 2013
Caterpillar employees, executives, dealers and customers, along with local dignitaries, today celebrated the grand opening of the company’s new parts…
March 4, 2013
Consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff is supporting Cornwall Council in its bid to secure central government funding for a major highways scheme on the A30…
March 4, 2013
Strong interest from a wide array of contractors has been shown in the project to construct the Chacao Bridge in Chile. In all some 47 sets of terms…
March 4, 2013
Despite the 2012 passage of the US federal surface transportation law, known as MAP-21, the real value of highway and bridge contract awards over the…
March 4, 2013
From 15 March 2013, French traffic police in 13 départements will be using new-generation radar speed cameras. The cameras will be fitted to unmarked…
March 4, 2013
Paul G. Harms, founder and long-time managing director of MOBA, has died aged 82. For more than 30 years Harms led and shaped the German firm, from…
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