February 1, 2018
Nicaragua’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) is setting out its road development programme for 2018. In all the plans call for the…
February 1, 2018
Myanmar’s Ministry of Construction in Myanmar has set a budget for road and bridge improvement works for the April 2018-September 2018 period. US$181…
February 1, 2018
Construction has been completed for the upgrade of the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed highway, which links the UAE with neighbouring Saudi Arabia. The…
February 1, 2018
A series of road upgrades is planned for Mindanao in the Philippines. A loan worth US$380 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help pay…
January 31, 2018
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
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 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 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
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: a key speaker at Transport Research Arena 2018 – TRA 2018 - in Vienna in April. International futurist Gerd Leonhard has been…
January 26, 2018
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
The International Road Federation's Global Road Achievement Awards (GRAA) will be presented at the IRF Global Road Conference & Road2Tunnel…
January 25, 2018
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
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
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…
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