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Construction of the 77km-long Merdare-Nis highway in Serbia is to benefit from external financing. A funding package worth €100 million is being supplied by the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the project. The funding will pay for work on a stretch of the route between Plocnik and Nis in southern Serbia. The highway will improve transport connections with neighbouring Kosovo when it is complete. This project forms part of a series of road building operations in the region, with extensive work having been

Morocco is working on a new highway development programme. This calls for the building of 1,384km of highway routes, in addition to the existing road links. In all the work is expected to cost in excess of US$7.9 billion. The work includes building 10 key stretches of highway. Some of the key routes to be upgraded will be: Beni Mellal and Marrakech; Tangier and Tetouan; Rabat to Casablanca and Berrechid; Berrechid and El Jadida; Fez to Tangier.

Construction work has been restarted on the 178km Isebania to Ahero road, connecting Kenya with Tanzania.

Repairs to the A20 highway route in northern Germany are now likely to take longer than initially expected. The route will now take until 2023 to repair, with the work costing some €100 million to carry out and requiring a temporary bridge to carry traffic past the failed section. The temporary bridge accounts for more than half of the cost of the work. The geological problems with the A20 Autobahn route first became visible in September 2018 when a section near Tribsees started to suffer from subsidence.

Construction work has commenced on a new coast road project in Vietnam’s Thai Binh Province. The road will provide an important connection, improving transport between the ports at Hai Phong, Quang Ninh and Diem Dien and the Cat Bi International Airport. It will also connect to the Ninh Binh-Hai Phong-Quang Ninh expressway and improve links between the Thai Binh economic zone, industrial clusters in Thai Thuy and Thien Hai districts. The project is being carried out under the build-operate-transfer model an

Construction work is underway on the new bridge spanning the Bago River in Myanmar. Much of the funding for the 1,928m bridge is being provided by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the form of a loan worth US$272.6 million. It is expected to cost $289 million in all to build, with completion expected in 2023. The bridge connects Thanlyin with Yangon’s Thaketa Township area and is being built just 125m from the existing bridge over the Bago River. This new cable-stayed structure will help

Construction work is commencing for 10 major transport infrastructure projects in China’s Shenzhen Province. The most impressive of these projects will be the building of the 8km undersea road tunnel,. Costing US$1.54 billion, the Mawan Cross-Sea Passage represents a major engineering challenge and is expected to take three years to complete. The projects being carried out also include the upgrade of Yueliangwan Boulevard (which includes a new viaduct), improvements to the Meiguan Expressway and building an

Construction work on the important Loko-Oweto Bridge project in Nigeria should be complete in May 2019. The project has cost around US$141 million, with contractor Reynolds Construction Company having started work on the 1.8km structure in 2011. Spanning the River Benue, the bridge forms part of the 108km road link connecting Otukpo with Oweto and improves transport connections between Benue State and Nasarawa State. Work on a stretch of the road has been carried CGC Nigeria Limited. Upgrade work is also