China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has announced that the long awaited Magole to Turiani highway in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania will be completed on time by September 2017. This comes barely a week after The Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS) raised concerns on how the p...
Kenya’s six-lane highway from Nairobi to Mombasa highway project At the US-Africa Business Forum in New York Elizabeth Littlefield, head of the US Government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and California-based construction and engineering firm Bechtel have signed a letter of interest i...
Kenyan Area-Governor Martin Wambora has announced plans to construct a major international airport in Embu County, which is in the Eastern part of the country at a cost of US$99 Million. Governor Wambora stated that Embu County is in talks with the National Government as well as other partners to ensure...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $198 million loan to help upgrade and widen 77 kilometres (km) of the existing Karshi-Shakhrisabz-Kitab highway in Kashkadarya province, southeast of Uzbekistan, to improve tourism, mobility, as well as domestic and international trade. “The road upgrade w...
Volvo Group UK fined £900,000 after employee was seriously injured falling from a step ladder The Volvo Group UK Limited has pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. They were fined £900,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,820 plus a £150 victim surcharge. Westm...
The time-lapse video shows the demolition and reconstruction of the Station Road Bridge in Hucknall, Nottingham, England. The 140 year old, 6 span bridge carries an average 9,000 vehicles a day. The bridge is being replaced as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan. The new structure will deliver a...
Paso de Agua Negra International Tunnel will connect Argentina and Chile The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$40 Million loan that will allow preliminary works for the new Paso de Agua Negra International Tunnel (PETAN) which will be 13.9 kilometres long and constructed at an alti...
Egypt & Saudi Arabia to build 30 mile bridge over the Red Sea Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement to build a bridge over the Red Sea from Ras Nasrani, which is close to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Ras Hamid in North Western Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman finalized...
Kiribati is a small island republic in the Central Pacific Ocean comprising 33 coral atolls and isles stretching across the equator with a total land area of 800 square kilometres dispersed over an area of 3.5 million square kilometres; and famed for white sandy beaches, beautiful lagoons, and the remna...
African Development Bank Group approves US$800 million to improve urban transport in Abidjan The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a loan of 769.78 million euros to Côte d’Ivoire aimed at significantly improving urban transport in the city of Abidjan. Thi...
East African Railway Masterplan An exciting grand rail project is being implemented in East Africa to connect the countries in the region with an effective transport systems that will take the strain from the regions busy and overburdened highways network which sees thousands of trucks choking the main...
While Moscow slept a major road rehabilitation project took place in May/July this year. The first major overhaul since the 1930’s was completed when Tverskaya Street was given a new surface dressing after the old layers of asphalt concrete pavement had been removed before the asphalt was laid in a sing...
The Benefits of Cold Milling / Planing The video by Benjamin Beytekin, shows Wirtgen W 250 Cold Milling machines at work in Germany on the B 14 – Abfräsen, Waiblingen-Nord. Pavement Milling Also called cold planning or asphalt milling and profiling, involves removing part of the existing paved asp...
Fraport AG, operator of Frankfurt Airport, renews the surface course on the runways about every seven years, including the centre runway, the most-frequently used section. Reason enough to assign key positions on this project to Wirtgen Group machines. The various tasks – in this case milling and paving...
Malaysia and Singapore have signed an agreement that paves the way for bidding for an international High-Speed rail line between Malaysia’s capital city Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The 350km High Speed Rail line will have eight stations, will include a bridge across the Straits of Johor, and will...
Abidjan to Lagos Corridor Highway Project spans 5 West African Countries The AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND (ADF) is financing an estimated US$15.59 million study cost for the development of the Abidjan – Lagos Corridor, a section of the longer Dakar-Lagos Corridor, which is part of the Trans African Hi...
US$ 74.9M Highway upgrade to connect Mozambique and Tanzania The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved US$ 71.8M grant and USD 3.1M loan to the Government of Mozambique for the construction of a 70km asphalt road section in Northern Mozambique to improve connectivity with Tanzania. This road segment...
The German rail authority has approved Alstom’s concrete slab track system for both high-speed and conventional rail services. Alstom has received recognition from the Eisenbahn-Bundesamt (EBA), the German Railway Federal Authority, for NBT, its concrete slab track solution for high-speed and convention...
The British Government has announced details of over £1.3 billion in road improvements for the United Kingdom As part of the £1.3 billion fund, the government is providing £925 million, which highways authorities can bid for to upgrade and repair their roads, and a further £70 million allocated next yea...
Voters in 22 States have approved ballot measures that will see US$ 201 billion in funding going to State and local Transportation projects. According to an analysis by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, 69% of 280 transportation funding ballot measures up for vote across the n...
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