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Only the last section of the Trans-Sahara highway remains to be built. The 4,600km highway is close to completion with just a 223km stretch in Niger requiring construction.

Work on the Pocitelj-Bijaca section of Bosnia's new Corridor Vc highway is due to begin in September of this year.

A new southern bypass is planned for Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountain area of Russia.

Problems have arisen with Colombia's Autopista del Bicentenario highway project.

A civil engineering tender worth U$4.73 billion for work in Saint Petersburg, Russia, has been awarded to a consortium of Russian, Italian and Turkish companies.

A new project is planned is Russian city St Petersburg that will extend Suzdalsky Prospect from Vyborgkoye Highway to the road to Kamenka.

A report from the VDMA (the German Engineering Federation) says that mid-year business situation is highly diverse for companies in the German construction equipment and building material machinery industries.

The contract for Italy's new Pedemontana Lombarda highway is likely to be handled by a consortium headed by Austrian contractor Strabag.

The tender process for the new Sei Tayan bridge project in Indonesia is now opening.

Key highway projects are being planned in Vietnam. The Ninh Binh-Thanh Hoa expressway will run 127km and is expected to cost US$1.6 billion to construct. The Nghi Son-Bai Vot expressway will cost $1 billion to build and Vietnam's Ministry of Transport (MoT) hopes to source a loan from the World Bank for this project. Vietnam's MoT is putting the projects through the tender process at present. The deals will be made under either the build-operate-transfer (BOT) or public-private partnership (PPP) models. So