Work to restart on key Algerian highway section

Work looks set to restart on a key section of Algeria’s East-West highway. The country's national highways agency, the ANA, has issued the Japanese group Cojaal with a second formal request to restart work on a 359km section of the highway. Cojaal, along with the Chinese firm Citic-CRCC had been contracted to build 900km of the highway, which links the west of the country with the east. The Chinese section of the highway has been completed (although it was delayed) but Cojaal has yet to finish its section o
June 18, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
Work looks set to restart on a key section of Algeria’s East-West highway. The country's national highways agency, the ANA, has issued the Japanese group Cojaal with a second formal request to restart work on a 359km section of the highway. Cojaal, along with the Chinese firm Citic-CRCC had been contracted to build 900km of the highway, which links the west of the country with the east. The Chinese section of the highway has been completed (although it was delayed) but Cojaal has yet to finish its section of the route. Both technical and financial issues have caused delays to Cojaal’s work. The highway has been beset by problems linked to expropriation of land as well as the need to reroute public utilities. There have also been claims of problems with the feasibility study.
Road Structures

Related Content

  • Export focus for XCMG, with Latin America as key territory
    January 6, 2017
    Exports are crucial to XCMG’s growth and its aim to becoming a dominant player in the worldwide construction machinery market – Mike Woof writes One of China’s biggest construction equipment manufacturers, XCMG has a high profile, and particularly in the country’s home market. XCMG is a leader in key equipment categories such as concrete pumping and lifting technologies. The firm’s 4,000tonne crawler crane introduced two years ago has already proven its worth in a massive industrial construction appl
    Read More
  • Asian bitumen producers look overseas for business opportunities
    March 4, 2015
    While demand in some parts of Asia is strong, other countries such as China have been suffering from oversupply - World Highways reported from the Argus Asia-Pacific and Middle East Bitumen Conference in Singapore. Asia overtook the Americas as the world’s largest consumer of bitumen in 2012, with China accounting for the lion’s share – nearly two-thirds – of consumption. However, attendees at the Argus Asia-Pacific and Middle East Bitumen Conference held in Singapore on 24th-26th September last year heard
    Read More
  • VIDEO: Nexus picks up Toowoomba bypass project in Queensland, Australia
    August 21, 2015
    Nexus Infrastructure group has signed a contract with the Australian government to deliver the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing project in Queensland state, costing nearly US$1.2 billion.

    Nexus will design construct, finance, operate and maintain the 41km route that will bypass the city of Toowoomba, east to west.

    Toowomba and district, with a population of around 158,000, is inland 125km west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane, on Australia’s northeast coast.
    Read More
  • New strategic road links planned for UK
    May 21, 2013
    New road upgrades are planned in the UK to reduce congestion and improve safety for vehicle drivers. Upgrades will be carried out to the A1 west of the city of Newcastle, the A12 in Essex to the east of capital London and the M62 motorway that connects the cities of Manchester and Leeds. Studies will be carried out first to identify the needs for other routes forming the country’s strategic road network. The necessary strategy will be produced for all routes in the second quarter of 2014, allowing a network
    Read More

Highlighted Content