The Peruvian government has announced that the US$182 million construction of a road to link Tacna (Peru) with La Paz (Bolivia), via Collpa, will begin in 2015. This new road will benefit more than 268,000 people living in the south of Peru.
May 13, 2014
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The Peruvian government has announced that the US$182 million construction of a road to link Tacna (Peru) with La Paz (Bolivia), via Collpa, will begin in 2015. This new road will benefit more than 268,000 people living in the south of Peru.
Only one consortium has submitted a technical bid in the tender for a project to build the Chacao bridge in Chile.
The bridge will link Chiloe island with Chile’s mainland Los Lagos region. The Chilean government has earmarked a maximum project budget of US$740 million.
The consortium that has submitted the technical bid, which would see the construction of a four-lane bridge, is made up of Hyundai of South Korea, Systra of France, Brazilian company OAS and Aas-Jakobsen of Norway. The consortium has
Vietnam is building around 1,400km of roads in the country’s southern coastal province of Kien Giang over the next several years.
The government said that 380km will be finished by year’s end, adding to the province’s more than 7,000km of roads. The total cost for the 1,400km of roads will be around be nearly US$65 million.
Kiên Giang is in the Mekong Delta region, one of the country’s hottest areas and also a major agricultural district. Just over 20% of its 1.6 million people live urban areas. The p
Not long after the recent completion of the successful EastLink project (a 39km motorway providing a vital connection for 1.5 million people in Melbourne, Australia) the Victorian Government has started work on another missing link in Melbourne's freeway network further south with the construction of Peninsula Link. Peninsula Link is a key project in the Victorian Government's AUD$38 billion (US$32 billion) Victorian Transport Plan. With a AUD$750 million (US$630 million) price tag, the project is expected
