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US-based Ritchie Bros Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer, is staging its biggest ever unreserved public equipment auction. More than 9,100 heavy equipment items and trucks will be sold over the six-day event in Orlando, Florida from February 13-18, 2012.

A new tunnel is being proposed in the Netherlands between The Hague and Delft.

Roadmarking contractor DBi Prismo has rolled out an iPhone application strategy to ensure seamless communication between its on-site workforce and office based departments.

At a time when states are starved for revenues to adequately maintain existing highways, US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told delegates at a meeting of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) that he is open to new tolling options. He also challenged the industry to, ".

The Hitachi factory at the port of Hitachinaka has been hit by the second tsunami that hit the coast of Japan's Ibaraki-prefecture.

Auction firm Ritchie Bros says that it is now one of the world's largest online retailers, with Internet sales of equipment surpassing US$1 billion/year.

Ennis Prismo Traffic Safety Solutions has made a successful first installation of its Stimsonite snow-ploughable road studs in Estonia.

Plans are now in hand for a major new highway project in Italy.

Production output grew 5% in 2010 according to Italy's construction equipment manufacturing association, Unacea.

Ritchie Bros is offering a new 21-language website, which features current inventory and equipment search tools. The new website is in 21 languages, with auction results in 14 languages and live on-line bidding in seven languages.

A string of road and highway contracts are due to be put out to tender in Indonesia shortly.

A new technique for assessing the impacts of tunnels on nearby buildings and structures will allow a more realistic establishment of risk and could therefore reduce project insurance premiums

The organisers of the recent Samoter construction equipment exhibition in Italian city Verona claim that the event attracted a total of 98,000 visitors in all.

JCB has announced plans for a new €36 million engine development project in the UK. This investment will create around 350 jobs shared between its factories in the Midlands and Wales.