Road Structures

Widening work for a key highway link in Bangladesh will commence shortly. The work will be carried out on the 41km link from the Akhaura logistics centre to the river port of Ashungaj.

Major transport development is set to commence in the Australian state of New South Wales following the setting of a new budget by the authorities.

A major project in Bangladesh now looks to be delayed following financing issues. The project to construct the Dhaka Elevated Expressway was to have been carried out by the contractor, Italian-Thai Development (ITD).

Construction work on a new expressway project in China is now starting. The new route will run from Lantianxiang in Huizhou City to Xinliangwu in Wengyuan County.

The tender process for a tunnel project on Bulgaria’s Struma Highway is now reopening. The project did go to tender earlier this year but has now had to be restarted following unexpected technical issues.

The proposed causeway connecting Bahrain with Saudi Arabia has now been approved.

Three build-operate-transfer road projects are being planned in Mongolia. The projects will be carried out between 2017 and 2020.

India’s road network development programme is facing a series of delays with several major projects now well behind schedule.