The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced $729m in funding to repair roads and bridges damaged by hurricanes, flooding and mudslides, and to improve their resilience to future disasters.…

Beijing has told a dozen local governments to halt or delay infrastructure projects to limit debt increases, Reuters reports.  Local governments in China have some autonomy in how they implement…

The state of California launched a website yesterday tracking the progress of state and federal infrastructure projects and how taxpayers’ money is being spent on them. The build.ca.gov site aims…

The Chinese government is to spend $11.3bn on infrastructure in Tibet’s western Xizang Autonomous Region this year, Xinhua reports. The investment, equal to more than a third of the region’s…

The US Department of Transport has awarded grants worth a total of $6.1bn to two high-speed rail schemes in California. The money was disbursed under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law enacted…

China is mulling raising its infrastructure spending by a trillion yuan, or $137bn, to accelerate the economy’s recovery from its long period of covid restrictions, Bloomberg reports. The money would…

Brazil has announced $75bn in infrastructure financing as part of a Growth Acceleration Programme, abbreviated as PAC in Portuguese. This PAC is Brazil’s third, following a federally funded programme announced…

The UK Export Finance (UKEF) has allocated €422m in guarantees for infrastructure work on the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar. Funding will be focused on two projects: an upgrade to Pemba…

Dallas-based engineer Aecom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development to provide programme management support for the country’s eventual reconstruction. Aecom says…

After a construction period that has stretched over four decades, Brazil has completed the 2,260km Norte-Sul railway, stretching from the northeastern port of Itaqui, in Maranhão state, to the southeastern…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is demanding an additional $17bn in investment from China under the terms of a 2008 infrastructure-for-minerals deal, Reuters reports.

The government of the Netherlands said this week that it would invest €750m over the next 10 years to develop a national hydrogen transport network.

New Zealand’s transport agency has appointed a consortium to build a two-lane toll road in North Auckland.