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China’s Hunan Province is developing its transport infrastructure with a series of major projects now being planned. Over US$4.06 billion will be spent on constructing nine highways in the province and these new routes will measure a total of 535km. The projects being planned include the 32km Guiyang-Pengtang highway, a 121km route from Anxiang-Chili, a 56km highway from Jingzhou-Liping, a 20km section from Jiangbei-Ganshan, a 42.5km road from Ningxiang-Shaoshan, a 6.5km link from Chenglingji and an 83.5km

A series of major road projects are now being planned in Tanzania, with funding sources for much of the work having been identified and secured. The largest of these is being delivered with a World Bank loan worth US$425 million, which will help pay for transport improvements in Tanzania’s capital, Dar es Salaam.

Uganda is seeking a loan worth US$500 million from China to help pay for road development projects. The loan is being requested from China’s Exim Bank by the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA). Should the loan be secured, it would help pay for improvements works to 580km of roads in Uganda. The new road links will help provide transport to the newly discovered oil reserves in Uganda’s Albertine Rift Basin.

Progress on the UK’s road development programme looks to be falling behind schedule due to a series of problems. The five year plan announced in April 2015 called for 112 major upgrades to key road links in the UK. However the €12.68 billion (£11 billion) programme is now over budget by a worrying €729 million (£841 million). So far only six projects are ahead of schedule or on track, while 19 will be delayed beyond 2020. The programme called for an addition al 2,080km on the smart highways system. There ar

Plans have been drawn up for a new road tunnel in the German town of Oberau, located to the south of Munich in Bavaria.

A project worth a total of US$800 million is underway in Zambia to upgrade roads in the Copperbelt and Lusaka Provinces. The work includes improvements to roads within the city of Chingola. The contractor Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) is carrying out work worth $400 million to upgrade 400km of roads around Chingola. Meanwhile the remaining $400 million will be spent on improving the roads in and around Lusaka.

Work is now well in hand in India on the plans to construct a new highway connecting capital Delhi with Jaipur in Rajasthan. The new highway will measure some 195km long, cutting the route between the two cities by around 40km. The highway will feature six lanes, with three in either direction, and will be tolled. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is at present handling the land acquisition process, a task that can be complex in India. The route runs through 423 villages in seven districts and

In California construction is commencing on a connection called Cow Camp Road. Engineering work is being carried out on the project by Michael Baker International. The firm is handling Phase 2 of a contract by Rancho Mission Viejo LLC (RMV). The road will be located in south Orange County, California. Cow Camp Road. This 6.4km stretch of highway will improve connections between Antonio Parkway and Ortega Highway (SR-74). The planned improvements will be carried out in Phases 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D. The work bein

BM Online is a web portal that collects and stores data from the BM LineMaster on a Borum roadmarking machine. Owners, site managers and operators can access data and generate reports by entering the BM Online Report web portal. No need to fear that data might be accidentally deleted from the LineMaster on a machine. Data will still be stored in BM-Online. In fact, data will be stored for five years. It is possible to export data to different systems being used by the owners of a Borum machine. Reports can

The Dutch government will extend the A15 motorway by 12km towards the A12 motorway as part of a new connection between Rotterdam and Germany. Traffic flow in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region will be improved, according to the announcement. The 130km A15 currently ends in a pasture. The new junction of the A12/A15 motorways will be named the De Liemers interchange, the same name as the region through which the road will run. Officially called the A12/A15 Ressen-Oudbroeken, or ViA15, project, the cost will

Constructing the airport on the remote island of St. Helena has been one of the largest projects for a South African construction group. It’s the site of one of Avery Dennison Refiective Solutions most remote traffic sign projects. The 121km² island is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, just under 2,000km from Angola on Africa’s southwest coast and 4,000km from Rio de Janeiro on Brazil’s east coast. St Helena is noted for being where French Emporer Napoleon was exiled in 1815 af

Interest is proving strong in Colombia’s Pamplona-Cucuta 4G motorway project, which is currently undergoing the tender process. The country’s National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) has had three bids so far for the project. The 62km stretch of road will be built in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department. The project is expected to cost in excess of US$515 million. So far ANI’s bids have come from CCA Civil Colombia, the Colombia-based subsidiary of Spanish contractor Sacyr, as well as the consortium Estruct

Funding for a stretch of the Belgrade ring road project will now be delivered by Chinese sources. The €207 million deal has been agreed between the Serbian Ministry of Construction and the Power Construction Corporation of China. This funding will help with the completion of the 20km ringoad project as a portion of the work has already been carried out.

Paraguay is opening the tender process for construction work on the Alberdi-Pilar road. The tender is being handled by Paraguay’s Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC). Work on the 96km route will include surfacing and the project is expected to cost just over US$131 million. Financing is being provided in the form of a loan from Fonplata. The project will include building six bridges measuring a total of 2.3km, as well as installing hard shoulders and drainage along the route. The work will be

Yanmar is restructuring its construction equipment and compact equipment supply operations in Europe. The firm is integrating the management of its French and German subsidiaries into single organisation. With the sales offices based at Bezannes ing France, Yanmar Compact Equipment will handle sales, marketing and distribution of the firm’s compact equipment, as well as the Schaeff brand machines. These products will be produced in Yanmar’s factories at Saint-Dizier in France, Crailsheim in Germany and