9 January 2012
Mexico has world’s highest cable bridge
Mexico's new cable bridge, built at a cost of MXN2bn ($146m), has been officially recognised as the highest in the world.
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8 January 2012
Traficon to provide automatic incident detection system to Swedish road tunnels
Traficon has won a contract to provide video image processors to help monitor traffic inside the Södra Länken and Norra Länken tunnels in Stockholm, Sweden.
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8 January 2012
Leafield Environmental secures Hong Kong bollard deal
Hong Kong Transport Authority has awarded a contract to UK highway traffic bollard manufacturer Leafield Environmental for its Night Owl retroreflective, bounce-back sign bollards.
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5 January 2012
Carillion wins Canadian highway maintenance deal
Carillion Canada, a unit of UK-based support services and construction company Carillion, has won a $156m contract from Ontario's Ministry of Transportation to provide highway maintenance for 12 years.
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5 January 2012
Many bids in for Turkey’s North Marmara Highway project
The $5bn North Marmara Highway project in Turkey has attracted 18 bidders.
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4 January 2012
Acciona wins Almanzora highway project in Spain
Acciona has won a €104m contract from the board of the Andalusia regional government agency of public works in Spain to build the Purchena- Mediterranean (A-7) stretch of the Almanzora...
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4 January 2012
Ghana to complete Tetteh-Quarshie-Mallam road project this month
Work on the $165m Tetteh-Quarshie Interchange-Apenkwa and Apenkwa-Mallam Junction road projects in Ghana are expecting to be complete by the 31 January deadline.
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3 January 2012
Carillion secures M6 managed motorway contract in UK
Carillion has won a £104.9m contract from UK Highway Agency to transform another section of the M6 in Birmingham, between Junctions 5 and 8 into a managed motorway.
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3 January 2012
Astaldi Impregilo JV wins Italian road project
Italian road authority ANAS has awarded a €791m contract to a joint venture between Astaldi and Impregilo to build a stretch of the Jonica National Road in southern Italy.
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2 January 2012
Kentucky and Indiana to share costs of Ohio River bridge project
The US states of Kentucky and Indiana have signed an agreement to share the $2.6bn cost of the Ohio River bridge project, with Indiana building the East End bridge and...