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US$6 billion needed for Indonesia highway

January 31, 2018

Healthy growth for Italian equipment market in 2017, notes Unacea

Italy saw sales of earth moving machinery climb 15% last year over that for 2016, according to Unacea, the Italian equipment association. In 2017,…

January 31, 2018

Czech road plans call for major construction

The Czech Republic is setting out its programme to develop its road infrastructure network. The plans call for work to build 360km of roads and…

January 31, 2018

China’s new smart highway being planned

China has plans to build a smart highway in Zhejiang Province. The route will include warning technology and monitoring systems and will be complete…

January 31, 2018

Volvo CE looks strong on healthy orders

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) reports a strong performance for the fourth quarter of 2017. This helped its parent company, the Volvo Group…

January 31, 2018

Texas Interstate connection upgrade project

Consultancy firm Michael Baker International has a US$4 million contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide safer road…

January 30, 2018

Gerd Leonhard to speak at TRA 2018 – the Digital Era of Transport

Gerd Leonhard: a key speaker at Transport Research Arena 2018 – TRA 2018 - in Vienna in April. International futurist Gerd Leonhard has been…

January 26, 2018

Caterpillar’s strong financial performance for 2017

Caterpillar has announced strong fourth-quarter and full-year results for 2017. Sales and revenues in the fourth quarter of 2017 were US$12.9 billion…

January 25, 2018

IRF Global Road Achievement Awards to be presented

The International Road Federation's Global Road Achievement Awards (GRAA) will be presented at the IRF Global Road Conference & Road2Tunnel…

January 25, 2018

Colombia tunnel construction cost climbs

Work on the La Linea Tunnel project in Colombia has cost considerably more than first anticipated. The National Road Institute (Invias) says that the…

January 25, 2018

Uganda-Kenya link to be upgraded

An upgrade is planned for the road connecting Uganda with Kenya at the Suam-Bukwo-Kapchorwa border crossing. The majority of the project costs will…

January 23, 2018

Sweden bridge building contracts awarded

Inhouse Tech will construct 13 bridges in Sweden as part of the E20 highway project. The firm was awarded the deal by the civil engineering and…

January 23, 2018

Construction to start on Chile’s key bridge project

Construction is to commence on Chile’s key Chacao Bridge contract shortly. This comes after many delays over the years, including the previous…

January 23, 2018

Azerbaijan rebuilds and maintains roads during 2017

Azerbaijan managed to rebuild and maintain 1,335km of its road network during 2017. Around 314km of key national road links were improved, along with…

January 23, 2018