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The plan for a major new road project has been agreed in Cameroon. The 357km Ring Road project will connect Cameroon with neighbouring Nigeria. Part of the funding for the work is being provided in the shape of a loan worth US$20.7 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB). In all the project is costing $251.5 million. Only a 60.5km stretch between Ndop and Kumbo has been completed, with delays having been caused by instability in the region. However the new road will help transport and trade between

Preparation work is now starting on a new tunnel project to connect Uznam Island with Wolin Island in Northern Poland. Clearance work is underway at present with the actual construction activity due to start in January 2020. Costing €184 million, the work involves building a 3.4km unnel, which is due for completion by September 2022. The area is a key holiday destination for tourists and is close to the border with Germany. The new tunnel will improve transport connections and cut delays during holiday peri

A 1,000km road link will help boost transport in southern Thailand.

Balfour Beatty has won the tender process for a US$203 million highway contract in North Carolina.

Three more contracts are due to be awarded for Malaysia’s important Pan Borneo highway project.

Construction work has now commenced on the new expressway route through Kenya’s congested capital, Nairobi. The project has been delayed for nearly a decade but building of the link is now going ahead, an important move in reducing traffic jams in the city. The route will have two traffic lanes in either direction and will feature 10 interchanges, with a considerable portion of the expressway being elevated. It will provide an important connection between the A109 Nairobi to Mombasa route and A104 Nairobi

The Czech highway authority has applied for permits to start work on a 41km stretch of the D11 motorway, from Prague to the border with Poland at a cost of around €853 million. Last year a consortium comprising contractors Eurovia, Metrostav and Swietelsky began work on a stretch of the D11 connecting Hradec Kralove and Smirice in the north of the country with completion of the €100.5 million project in 2022. The D11 motorway connecting Prague and Hradec Králové began in 1978. It is part of European r

Shell Bitumen has signed a partnership arrangement for the Indian market with Tiki Tar Industries. This will allow the firm sell bitumen to customers in the road surfacing sector, including national and state highways, airport runways and village roads in India. Tiki Tar and Shell India is a 50:50 incorporated joint venture between Shell and Tiki Tar Industries,. The new partnership will supply and market an extensive range of bitumen products based on the Shell Bitumen product portfolio. “This partnership