Tunnel workers have now connected the two bores for the new highway linking Albania with Kosovo. The 5.6km tunnel forms part of the Rreshen-Kalimash highway, which has so far cost Albania in excess of €1 billion.
July 12, 2012
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Tunnel workers have now connected the two bores for the new highway linking Albania with Kosovo. The 5.6km tunnel forms part of the Rreshen-Kalimash highway, which has so far cost Albania in excess of €1 billion.
The state government of Victoria in Australia will pay the East West Connect consortium US$258 million to cancel construction of Melbourne’s East West Link road tunnel.
The payoff is to cover the consortium's bidding, design and pre-construction costs and draw a line under the deal that has been mired in financial controversy for years.
The federal government slammed Victoria’s decision to bail out of the project as “an obscenity’’ that will cost 7000 jobs, according to a report in The Australian news
Turkey’s longest, and what will be the world’s fourth longest, highway tunnel is being built under Mount Ovit in the northeast of the country. Sandvik Construction is playing a vital role in the construction of the giant new structure, which will enable all-year-round access to what is a relatively remote and often snow-blocked part of Anatolia
Having had their freedom of movement blighted for many years by wintertime snow blocking the D925 highway, along with narrower roads and passes, at Mount Ovit, resi
