US allocates funds to repair disaster damage roads and bridges
The US Department of Transportation has unveiled a plan to provide $215m to states across the country to repair roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters.
The US Department of Transportation has unveiled a plan to provide $215m to states across the country to repair roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters.
Papua New Guinea has started the reconstruction work on the country's old bridges at a cost of $100m.
Japan will provide funds to transform Sri Lanka's 95km Southern Expressway to an electronic toll collection (ETC) system.
Hindustan Construction (HCC), in joint venture with VNR Infrastructures and Germany-based DSD Brouckenbau, has won a Rs9.8bn ($187.6m) contract from Indian Rail to build Bogibeel rail-road bridge across Brahmaputra river...
Peru Transport and Communications Ministry (MTC) is planning to invest $20bn between 2011 and 2016 in transport infrastructure, with $11bn earmarked for road projects.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has extended a €53m loan to the Albanian Road Authority for building two bypass roads in the south-west part of the country.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $180m in loans to improve 470km of the road network in northern Kalimantan and southern Java in Indonesia.
Australia has extended an additional A$200m ($195m) for the new 40km Hunter Expressway.
Transportation Investment Corporation of British Columbia in Canada is expecting to complete the $3.3bn Port Mann/Highway 1 project by 2013.
UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, is planning to invest $100m to upgrade transport and traffic technologies in the city.