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June 29, 2015
The World Bank Group is providing funding worth US$500 million for the development of a key transport corridor in the north-west of the country. This…
June 29, 2015
Chinese banks are providing US$297 million in loans for road construction in the Kyrgyz Republic. The loan will be used to carry out Phase II of the…
June 29, 2015
Plans are progressing in Kazakhstan for the project to construct the Big Almaty Ring Road. A number of investors are involved in financing the…
June 29, 2015
The UK’s Transport Rsearch Laboratory (TRL) is partnering with Transpolis in France to open an international test facility. This new partnership…
June 26, 2015
The Liebherr Group now has a new logistics centre located at Oberopfingen, Germany. This facility is supplying customers around the world with spare…
June 25, 2015
According to a report from US-based research firm Freedonia, world demand for construction machinery will grow by 3.9%/year to $218 billion by 2019…
June 25, 2015
The tender process for the road connections to the third bridge over the Bosporus in Turkey has been delayed once more. This is the third time the…
June 25, 2015
Canada’s infrastructure minister, Denis Label, officially broke ground for Montreal’s replacement Champlain Bridge, saying the project will likely…
June 25, 2015
Columbian president Juan Manuel Santos Colombia has said pension fund money could help finance the country’s ambitious 4G motorway projects.…
June 25, 2015
The Texas Transportation Commission has conditionally awarded the two companies, Flatiron and Dragados the contract to design, build and operate a…
June 25, 2015
One of the world’s largest cranes has placed the first steel girder assembly for the approach span of the new NY Bridge, often called the Tappen Zee…
June 24, 2015
Plans are being considered for either a tunnel or bridge to connect Sri Lanka and India. The preferred route would be from Dhanushkodi in India to…
June 24, 2015
Funding for a major freeway project in Iran could come from foreign sources. The Tabriz-Marand-Bazargan freeway looks likely to be built using…
June 23, 2015
The US state of Oregon’s new pay-by-the-mile road usage charge program, OReGO, took a step forward last month.
June 23, 2015
User-pays is crystallising as the preferred option by governments and taxpayers around the world, said Jack Opiola, managing partner of international…
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