Japan’s JFE Engineering and local contractor First Balfour have won a $120m contract to renovate two bridges over the river Pasig in the Metro Manila area. The Guadalupe Bridge and…

The World Bank has signed off on a $150m financing package for Nepal’s Third Bridges Improvement and Maintenance Program. The money will be spent on increasing the organisational capacity of…

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi opened a vertical-lift rail bridge in the southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday. The 2km New Pamban Bridge connects the mainland with the town of…

Skanska has signed a $421m contract with the New Jersey Transit Corporation to replace a 435m-long rail bridge in Middlesex County. The scope of work on the Raritan River Bridge…

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that 68 bridges across 19 states should be evaluated after the collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year.…

Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has picked Kiewit Infrastructure South to be construction manager for the $794m project to replace the 75-year-old I-55 Bridge over the Mississippi River near Memphis.…

Jacobs has won a contract to inspect all 85 bridges on 127 track-miles of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). MTS racked up 75.6 million passenger trips in the…

Work has begun on a 26km bridge in northeast China, 19km of which will be over the sea, China News Online reports.  The Changhai Cross-sea Bridge will connect the city…

Maryland Governor Wes Moore and the Maryland Department of Transportation this month unveiled the design concept for the new Francis Scott Key Bridge that will replace the one knocked over…

Oregon is hoping to begin work in September on the long-delayed bridge over the Columbia River, but local politicians worry about President Trump withholding pledged federal funding, Oregon Public Broadcasting…

Skanska has announced the substantial completion of the $19.8m Essex Road Bridge replacement project in San Bernardino County, California for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Starting in May 2023,…

Work on the $760m Tu Lien bridge over the Red River in Hanoi will start on 19 May, the birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Investment Review reports, citing Duong…

Russia has chosen a contractor to build a motorway bridge over the Tumen river on its border with North Korea, the Interfax news agency reports.  The bridge, which will carry…

Ageing US bridges gave Swedish group Skanska a big start to the year as it announced two bridge projects this month worth a combined $670m. In North Carolina, it won…

A joint venture between Austrian contractors Porr and Strabag has won a €217m contract to replace a 1.8km bridge in the Austrian Alps. The 55-year-old Luegbrücke is part of the…

Work has been completed on a €350m railway bridge over the Drava River between Croatia and Hungary. The double-tracked Drava Bridge replaces a single-track version, and will expand the capacity…

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has begun an amphibious operation to replace five crucial bridge decks at Amsterdam’s main Centraal train station that have reached the end of their design life. Working…

Two Singaporean companies who owned the ship that rammed into and brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have agreed to pay just under $102m to settle a claim filed…