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Searching for a parking space costs the UK £23.3 billion per year
Searching for a parking space costs the UK £23.3 billion per year UK drivers spend an average of 44 hours a year searching for parking, at a cost of £733 each in wasted time, fuel and emissions, a total of £23.3 billion across the country Overpaying for parking costs British motorists up to an estim...
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Summer’s coming! Keep the holiday traffic flowing smoothly with Clearview
Summer’s coming! Keep the holiday traffic flowing smoothly with Clearview The summer holiday season is almost upon us and with it the inevitable increase in traffic on the roads. Clearview Intelligence has the solutions to keep the traffic moving, minimise congestion, and driver frustration. H...
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UK Construction Industry invited to support CRASH at Charity Golf Event
UK Construction Industry invited to support CRASH at Charity Golf Event Global events and media experts at Versanta are asking members of the Construction industry to take to the fairways as part of a fundraising campaign for CRASH – The construction industry Charity. CRASH is a unique, practical ch...
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S.M.E. Businesses are Driving Record Employment Levels in Britain
S.M.E. Businesses are Driving Record Employment Levels in Britain Film and TV production, machinery repair and food vans all booming SMEs account for over 70% of private sector employment growth since 2011 SME debt falls £34 billion in five years SME growth highest in Manchester (50%), London (41%)...
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JCB’s Louise crowned Apprentice of the Year
JCB’s Louise crowned Apprentice of the Year Teenager Louise Meredith is the toast of JCB after she was named Young Employee / Apprentice of the Year at a regional business awards. Higher Apprentice Louise, 19, who works at JCB’s World HQ in Rocester scooped the title at the Staffordshire Chambers of...
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Hyperloop One makes history with world’s first successful Hyperloop full systems test
Hyperloop One makes history with world’s first successful Hyperloop full systems test Hyperloop One today announced the successful completion of the world’s first full systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum environment. This test was Phase 1 of a multi-Phase program and was privately conduct...
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Thales supporting modernisation of 36 km or railway through Ankara
Thales supporting modernisation of 36 km or railway through Ankara Turkey’s Başkentray project involves the renovation of the signalling systems for conventional, high-speed and suburban lines along a 36-kilometre section stretching from Sincan to Kayaş through the city of Ankara. Key Points T...
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Chapman Taylor behind the first modular hotel built in Manchester
Chapman Taylor behind the first modular hotel built in Manchester Chapman Taylor’s new 220 bedroom Holiday Inn Express, built off-site from purpose built steel shipping containers, has been completed at Manchester’s Trafford City. It is the first hotel in the North West to be built using this partic...
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Herrenknecht TBM completes 3.2 km road tunnel in Switzerland
Herrenknecht TBM completes 3.2 km road tunnel in Switzerland The shell of the Belchen rehabilitation tunnel has been completed. Tunnelling ended successfully in Eptingen in the Swiss canton of Basel-Country on June 21, 2017, three months ahead of schedule. The tunnel boring machine (TBM) (diameter 1...
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Marshalls relies on VolvoCE to pave the way for monumental work
Marshalls relies on VolvoCE to pave the way for monumental work With prestigious projects such as London’s Trafalgar Square and Wembley Stadium in its portfolio, the UK’s leading hard landscaping manufacturer is using Volvo equipment to help carve its niche. Looking out from atop the stone steps of...
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Metsä Wood invests in partnerships in industrial wood element construction
Metsä Wood invests in partnerships in industrial wood element construction Wood construction is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. Wood products have become more competitive in residential construction in particular, due to the advanced degree of modularity and prefabricated elements. Through...
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Quieter Homes Scheme opened to Heathrow neighbours
Quieter Homes Scheme opened to Heathrow neighbours Heathrow launches bespoke noise insulation free of charge to local homeowners More than 700 residents have been invited to join the programme following a successful pilot scheme. Residents living close to the airport will be able to upgrade their ho...
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JCB delivers robust results in shrinking global market
JCB delivers robust results in shrinking global market JCB defied challenging market conditions by growing earnings by more than 34% in 2016. Announcing its annual results for last year, the Staffordshire-based machinery maker revealed that earnings for 2016 on an EBITDA basis were £287 million (201...
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First of its kind Machine Simulator Training at Hinkley Point C
First of its kind Machine Simulator Training at Hinkley Point C UK Plant Operators LTD have teamed up with Leica Geosystems and Kier Bam to test run a state of the art simulator based familiarisation course for Leica machine control and guidance at one of the largest construction projects in the UK....
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Building instructor wins John Deere 333G compact track loader in Small Machines. Big Impact. contest
Building instructor wins John Deere 333G compact track loader in Small Machines. Big Impact. contest After all the online votes were counted, Eric Moores, a high school building trades instructor in Woodbine, Iowa, was crowned the grand prize winner of the inaugural John Deere “Small Machines. Big I...
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New Volvo loading shovel lands on familiar territory at Scottish Bogside
New Volvo loading shovel lands on familiar territory at Scottish Bogside The world’s leading glass bottle manufacturer, O-I Manufacturing Ltd, continues to favour Volvo Construction Equipment products as it takes delivery of a new L150H loading shovel for its Devilla silica sand quarry located at Bo...
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The VolvoCE LX1 electric hybrid wheel loader proves itself in real-world testing
The VolvoCE LX1 electric hybrid wheel loader proves itself in real-world testing Volvo Construction Equipment’s LX1 prototype electric hybrid wheel loader has excelled during hundreds of hours of real-world testing, achieving around a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency compared to its conventional c...
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UK’s Motorway litter droppers warned not to put lives at risk
UK’s Motorway litter droppers warned not to put lives at risk CCTV shows lorry driver discarding oil container on M62 40,000 sacks of litter collected last year Motorway drivers are being warned they could be putting lives at risk if they throw litter from their car windows. Highways England i...
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New Volvo PL3005E rotating pipelayer increases power and lifting capacity
New Volvo PL3005E rotating pipelayer increases power and lifting capacity As the latest addition to the lineup of Volvo E-Series rotating pipelayers, the PL3005E boasts impressive improvements to power, productivity and efficiency versus predecessor models, all on a 360-degree excavator-based platfo...
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University Minerals Students study processing at Haver & Boecker
University Minerals Students study processing at Haver & Boecker Continuing to build on a successful relationship, Haver & Boecker recently hosted University of Toronto’s minerals students. The manufacturer, a leading provider of aggregates and mining processing systems, gave 22 students a f...
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Briggs boosts short term rental fleet with JCB Scissor Lifts
Briggs boosts short term rental fleet with JCB Scissor Lifts Briggs Equipment – one of the UK’s largest fork lift truck and materials handling providers – has added 10 JCB scissor lifts to its rapidly growing access platform fleet. The deal, one of the first for the recently launched JCB...
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SafeZone permanent average Speed Enforcement System deployed across London
SafeZone permanent average Speed Enforcement System deployed across London Siemens, a global leader in traffic management technology, has recently completed the deployment of the UK’s largest, and busiest, permanent average speed enforcement system across London using its proven and award-winning Sa...
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The Pipeline warns the UK Construction Industry lagging on gender diversity
The Pipeline warns the UK Construction Industry lagging on gender diversity Women Count 2017, the second annual report by the Pipeline, which delivers executive leadership programmes specifically designed for women and their organisations, has tracked and analysed the number of women on Executive Co...
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Major milestone for A21 upgrade in England as new flyover opens
Major milestone for A21 upgrade in England as new flyover opens A brand new flyover, built as part of a major upgrade on the A21 in Kent, will be used by drivers for the first time in July. The work is part of a project to upgrade the A21 between Tonbridge and Pembury to a ...
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Relentless collaboration delivers Balfour Beatty’s Strategic Design Consultant Partnership
Relentless collaboration delivers Balfour Beatty’s Strategic Design Consultant Partnership Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces the formation of a collaborative UK Strategic Design Consultant Partnership with Atkins, Mott MacDonald and WSP. This mutually beneficial...
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JCB Loadalls under Starter’s Orders for British Grand Prix role at Silverstone
JCB Loadalls under Starter’s Orders for British Grand Prix role at Silverstone A fleet of JCB machines is under starter’s orders to take on a starring role at the British Grand Prix. Fourteen JCB Loadall telescopic handlers left the JCB World HQ in Rocester, Staffordshire, this morning on truc...
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INRIX and APCOA partner to provide the most comprehensive parking data in Europe
INRIX and APCOA partner to provide the most comprehensive parking data in Europe INRIX the world leader in connected car services and movement analytics, and APCOA Parking Group, the largest European parking operator, today announced a major new partnership to exchange parking information. This new...
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Germany’s Emperor William I Monument restored by Kögel Bau and Volvo CE
Germany’s Emperor William I Monument restored by Kögel Bau and Volvo CE Digging deep beneath one of Germany’s most prominent monuments is Volvo CE-equipped construction company, Kögel Bau, employing a fleet of machines to breathe life back into the landmark. Atop the Wittekindsberg mountain in...
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John Deere updates its popular L-Series Backhoe to simplify and enhance operation
John Deere updates its popular L-Series Backhoe to simplify and enhance operation Updates to the John Deere L-Series backhoe lineup enhance the productivity and uptime for professionals looking to lift more and multitask on the job site. The key backhoe updates include the introduction of precision...
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INRIX powers the first on-street parking service in a connected car
INRIX powers the first on-street parking service in a connected car INRIX, the world leader in connected car services and transportation analytics has announced the availability of its On-Street Parking service for the new BMW 5 Series Sedan. INRIX delivers the industry’s first real-time on-street p...
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BAM Nuttall helps to shape the future of women’s construction clothing
BAM Nuttall helps to shape the future of women’s construction clothing Leading construction and engineering company BAM Nuttall is rolling out a range of work clothing nationwide, specifically designed for women, following trials on a number of its sites in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Scotland. Wor...
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Balfour Beatty welcomes Her Majesty The Queen to the Queen Elizabeth II Canal
Balfour Beatty welcomes Her Majesty The Queen to the Queen Elizabeth II Canal Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, alongside Scottish Canals, welcomed Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to the site of its completed Helix Canal project in Grangemouth...
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SMT Nigeria supporting mining company AshakaCem a subsidiary of Lafarge Africa
SMT Nigeria supporting mining company AshakaCem a subsidiary of Lafarge Africa SMT Nigeria has signed a rental contract with a key player in the cement industry, Lafarge Holcim. SMT is delivering 13 Volvo machines and Volvo trucks for a long term full service rental contract to AshakaCem a subsidiar...
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SMT announces long-term distribution deal for Volvo Construction Equipment in Britain
SMT announces long-term distribution deal for Volvo Construction Equipment in Britain A deal was signed on July 4th 2017 for SMT (Services Machinery and Trucks) to takeover the distribution rights for Volvo-branded construction equipment machines, parts and aftersales in Great Britain, as well as Vo...
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Formwork fine-tuning by Doka for construction of the new KTM museum
Formwork fine-tuning by Doka for construction of the new KTM museum High speed on two wheels. That’s what has made Upper Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM world-famous. But right now at company HQ in Mattighofen, the howl of high-revving motorbike engines is overlaid by the low growl of con...
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Mining companies in Pacific Rim sign three new Life Cycle Services Contracts with Metso
Mining companies in Pacific Rim sign three new Life Cycle Services Contracts with Metso During the first quarter of 2017, Metso signed three new long-term maintenance contracts with major mining companies in the Pacific Rim region. Through these new Life Cycle Services (LCS) contracts, Metso will pr...
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Czech quarry maximises performance with new Hitachi ZX490LCH-6 excavators
Czech quarry maximises performance with new Hitachi ZX490LCH-6 excavators The Czech Republic’s foremost purchaser of Hitachi construction machinery has further enhanced its fleet with a new ZX490LCH-6 large excavator. Ceske sterkopisky spol. s r.o. – one of the country’s leading suppliers of aggreg...
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Parsons joins MIT Industrial Liaison Program
Parsons joins MIT Industrial Liaison Program Parsons announces that it has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), a program dedicated to creating and strengthening mutually beneficial relationships between MIT and corporations worldwide. Parsons...
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World Bank tells Romania it must act decisively to improve road safety
World Bank tells Romania it must act decisively to improve road safety The World Bank, in partnership with the European Transport Safety Council, the Romanian Ministry of Transport and the National Road Authority (Autoritatea Rutieră Română) co-hosted the Road Safety in Romania – Challenges and Oppo...
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Good signs of progress for Dover traffic flow
Good signs of progress for Dover traffic flow Work to improve journeys for drivers on the A20 approaching the Port of Dover is making good progress, Highways England said today (4 July 2017). The update came at Highways England’s Stanford motorway depot, where the government owned company unveiled o...
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Volvo haulers keep on running at Jakto Excavations
Volvo haulers keep on running at Jakto Excavations Barnsley based Jakto Excavations has taken delivery of a further three Volvo A25G articulated haulers, increasing the company’s mixed fleet of A25s and A30s to seventeen machines “We need reliable machines for our earthmoving, remedial and demolitio...
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Port of Dar-es-Salaam to get US$345 Million refurbishment
Port of Dar-es-Salaam to get US$345 Million refurbishment A US$345 million credit is being given to upgrade the Port of Dar-es-Salaam About 35% of the cargo at the port is in transit to/from Tanzania’s landlocked neighbours The volume of cargo is projected to almost triple by 2030 In Abdigi R...
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Scotland’s M8 closure journey times monitored by Clearview Intelligence
Scotland’s M8 closure journey times monitored by Clearview Intelligence As part of a significant upgrade to the Scottish motorway network Transport Scotland put in place a 10-week diversion on all M8/A8 approaches to the Baillieston interchange while they connected the newly built M8 motorway...
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Volvo Construction Equipment to divest British dealership to SMT
Volvo Construction Equipment to divest British dealership to SMT Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has announced that it is divesting its wholly owned British dealership to long-term distribution partner SMT. The deal was signed on July 4th and is now followed by an employee consultation perio...
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Highways England A14 Cambridge to Huntington upgrade takes shape
Highways England A14 Cambridge to Huntington upgrade takes shape Six months in, new aerial pictures show first glimpse of brand new road emerging New bridges taking shape Working in harmony with communities and the environment The project team delivering the biggest road upgrade under construction i...
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UK Government publishes £6.1 billion programme of upgrades to major roads and motorways
UK Government publishes £6.1 billion programme of upgrades to major roads and motorways £6.1 billion programme of road improvements announced as part of the government’s £23 billion upgrade to the road network in England. Transport Minister Jesse Norman has unveiled a £6.1 billion programme of...
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New way of working for Highways England goes live in south west
New way of working for Highways England goes live in south west Highways England has changed the way in which it delivers its services across the south west region from today bringing key asset management capability in-house for the first time in a brand new way of working. This change in approach f...
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Guide dogs learn to cross the road with a little help from AGD Systems
Guide dogs learn to cross the road with a little help from AGD Systems Guide dogs in training at Guide Dogs Cymru, Cardiff, are finding it a little easier to get to grips with pelican crossings, thanks to a donation from AGD Systems – the people who make the familiar ‘boxes’ that we press for ...
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Heathrow Airport agrees to boost rail services
Heathrow Airport agrees to boost rail services Heathrow agrees new plan with TfL and DfT to boost rail services to the airport Elizabeth line services to serve Terminal 5 From 2019 at least 22 trains per hour connecting Central London and Heathrow – up from 18 today Thousands of rail passengers to b...
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Aus $518 million Ballarat Line upgrade in Australia set to kick start the regions rail revival
Aus $518 million Ballarat Line upgrade in Australia set to kick start the regions rail revival The Andrews Labor Government in Australia has announced Lendlease, Coleman Rail and SMEC are now the preferred bidder to transform the Ballarat line. Premier Daniel Andrews announced that the experienced c...
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Mabey puts cutting-edge robotics to work
Mabey puts cutting-edge robotics to work Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has put its new robots to work at its Mabey Bridge site in Lydney, Gloucestershire. Forming one complete cell, the new robots support the manufacture of the Mabey Compact 200 (C200) – the world’s most w...
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Highways England opens new fourth lane on M3 smart motorway
Highways England opens new fourth lane on M3 smart motorway Main construction on a £174 million project to upgrade the M3 in Surrey and Hampshire to a smart motorway has been completed on time Highways England announced today (Saturday 1 July). Overnight on Friday 30 June, the last of the cones were...
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Highways England announces £50 million investment in M6 Knutsford roundabout
Highways England announces £50 million investment in M6 Knutsford roundabout Highways England is planning a major, £50 million improvement of the roundabout at junction 19 of the M6 motorway near Knutsford – with the backing of drivers. The ‘Option A’ idea, to provide a new bridge across the m...
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Fundraising and attendance records broken at 6th JCB Mud Run
Fundraising and attendance records broken at 6th JCB Mud Run A record-breaking – and capacity – field of 3,000 squirmed and splashed their way to a £70,042 charity total by taking on the challenge of the 6th annual JCB Mud Run. Competitors scrambled over more than 35 obstacles, including...
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Nampak Glass installs 1km gas pipeline to create new opportunities
Nampak Glass installs 1km gas pipeline to create new opportunities Nampak Glass has commissioned a 1km-long high pressure underground pipeline, which feeds from the existing Sasol Gas Ltd.’s transmission network and ties into the newly constructed Nampak Pressure Reduction Station (PRS) in Germiston...
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Improving safety at junctions can save lives
Improving safety at junctions can save lives 1,810 people died on the UK’s roads in the year ending September 2016 according to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) provisional estimates. That’s a 2.4% increase from the previous year (1,767). In total, 25,160 people were killed or seriously injured...
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Waltham Cross junction of the M25 Motorway in the UK gets upgrade
Waltham Cross junction of the M25 Motorway in the UK gets upgrade A proposed multi-million pound upgrade to a busy M25 junction in Hertfordshire has won support in a public consultation, Highways England has announced. Under the plans, junction 25 of the M25, where the motorway meets that A10 in Her...
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Metso launches revolutionary MX Crusher and Lokotrack Jaw Plants at Steinexpo quarry exhibition in Germany
Metso launches revolutionary MX Crusher and Lokotrack Jaw Plants at Steinexpo quarry exhibition in Germany At Steinexpo, the biggest quarry exhibition in Europe, Metso will introduce the revolutionary Metso MX cone crusher featuring multi-action crushing technology to the European market, as well as...
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Aquajet Systems EcoClear neutralizes hydro-demolition water and removes particles
Aquajet Systems EcoClear neutralizes hydro-demolition water and removes particles Aquajet Systems AB, a global leader in hydrodemolition machine manufacturing, introduces the EcoClear® water filtration system. The innovative machine works with Aquajet’s full line of hydrodemolition robots to treat t...
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China funds new 500 km road to connect Mozambique and South Africa
China funds new 500 km road to connect Mozambique and South Africa Construction of the 500km Mapinhane-Pafuri regional road (N222) road connecting the Vilanculos district to the Mozambique and South African border is expected to begin in May 2018 and be completed three years later. This new road cov...
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