More than 80,000 drivers a day are now using the recently opened and - first ever - North Tyneside triple-deck highway junction in the northeast.
England’s A19 /A1058 Coast Road junction improvement scheme, being done for the client Highways England, was opened on time. However, there will be some overnight closures in the next several weeks to complete the landscaping, traffic light and footpath work. A time capsule has been buried on site and is due to be opened in 2118.
Work started in June 2016 on
Construction work for the fourth bridge crossing over the Panama Canal is expected to commence in late 2019. The project is costing US$1.42 billion and the new bridge will be built by a Chinese contracting consortium comprising China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) and China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). The 6.5km bridge will feature three lanes in either direction, as well as two light rail tracks.
Mirbud has been awarded a €155 million contract to build a 25km ring road around the Polish town of Olesno. The ring-road will be part of a new S11 expressway.
Other companies which competed for the contract include Strabag, Budimex, Porr and Polaqua.
Olesno, with a population of around 10,000, lies about 40km from the city of Opole in southwestern Poland.
A major highway widening project is now planned for the M20 route in the Netherland. A budget of €124 million has been set for the work, which will see the stretch between Nieuwekerk aan den IJssel and Gouda being widened. This section features two lanes in either direction at present but the work will see the stretch featuring three lanes in either direction. The work will help reduce congestion and delays for drivers, improving journey times at peak periods.
A new plan for improving Ecuador’s road network has been set out by the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP). At present the state road network stretches for a total of 10,132km but responsibility for maintaining 1,644km of these roads has now been handed over from MOTP to several Prefectures or to a number of private firms. These Prefectures now handling their own road maintenance works include Guayas, Manabi, Pichincha and Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas.
MOTP has set a budget of US$100.3 millio
Liebherr has achieved a record turnover of €10.55 billion for 2018. This broke through the €10 billion barrier for the first time in the company’s history and represents an increase of €739 million, or 7.5 %, compared with the previous year’s turnover.
This came despite a slight decline in overall economic growth. Both the construction machinery and mining equipment divisions recorded overall increases in sales revenues, as did the other product areas overall.
Revenues from construction machinery and mini
Norway is working on plans to make more of the major north-south E39 coastal route a ferry-free highway, coasting €35.3 billion, according to media.
In Norway, the trans-European route 39 is part national road system and is developed and maintained by the public roads administration. It runs for 1,330km along the coast from Klett just south of Trondheim to Nørresundby.
Norway’s E39 is mostly a two-lane undivided road with only relatively short sections near Stavanger, Trondheim and Bergen being motorw
