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The contract to design the third bridge spanning the Panama Canal will be carried out by Louis Berger and China Communications Construction.

In China Ningbo City has set out a strategic plan to improve its road links and boost capacity.

Loans worth US$200 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) will be used in Costa Rica for road projects.

The tender process for Turkey's third Bosphorus Bridge is due to commence on 23rd August 2011. The project will be built under the build-operate-transfer model. This forms part of a massive investment in infrastructure in Turkey.

Upgrade and maintenance work for 11,578km of strategic non-national roads in Indonesia may receive funding from the country's Public Works Ministry.

A series of key road projects are underway in Bolivia's Potosi department at present, with the work in hand worth a total of US$524 million.

The authorities in Laos are planning a massive road and highway improvement programme. This new strategy from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport calls for a total of 1,151 road improvement projects, which will receive government investment worth US$14 billion.

Ammann is launching an extended range of lightweight tandem rollers, badged the ARX models. The range includes 13 models from 1.5-4.5tonnes and working widths from 820–1380mm, to replace the AVM-2 range later this year.

The world's largest bridge over water is now open to traffic. Measuring over 42km long the bridge links China's eastern port city of Qingdao with Huangdao Island.

Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) is going ahead with plans to upgrade the Pan Island Expressway (PIE).

Work is progressing on-track on Sri Lanka's Southern Expressway project. This will be the country's first expressway and is expected to be completed by 2012, removing the bulk of traffic from the existing coastal road that is highly congested and also has serious safety issues.

In Australia contractor Leighton Holdings intends to reclaim extra costs incurred for a major airport link road project in Queensland.

Funding from Japan is helping speed construction of a new bypass in Kenya. The US$190 million grant from the Japanese International Corporation Agency (Jica) will be used for the project to build the 17.5km Southern bypass for the South Coast of Mombasa.

A US$131 million road contract in Sri Lanka will be handled by Chinese firm Dagang Road Machinery.