Nigeria plans to spend $2bn on a 700km coastal highway between the commercial capital of Lagos and the port of Calabar near its border with Cameroon.

Vietnam broke ground this week on the 60km stretch of highway in the north of the country that will complete its historic $59bn North-South expressway. The $430m section runs north…

Transport ministers from Iraq, Turkey, UAE, and Qatar met on Monday to sign a memorandum of understanding on Iraq’s “Development Road”. It’s envisaged as a 1,200km motorway, rail link and…

The US government is to spend $830m on mitigating the effects of climate change on road and rail systems. The money will go on 80 projects to protect transport from…

The consortium building the new A16 ring road around northern Rotterdam has nearly finished the giant Terbregseplein flyover, member Besix posted on X. Called “De Groene Boog” (The Green Arch),…

A consortium of large Spanish firms – Ferrovial, Acciona and Sacyr – has been selected to develop the Peripheral Ring Road in Lima, Peru as a 30-year public-private partnership with…

Lunda Construction, a subsidiary of American contractor Tutor Perini, has entered the lowest bid for a bridge replacement and highway improvement project on the border between Illinois and Indiana. The…

Spanish contractor Ferrovial has bought a 24% stake in Indian road builder IRB Infrastructure Trust for €740m. IRB owns 12 toll road concessions in India, covering an estimated 2,000km, with…

A joint venture between Swiss contractor Implenia and Germany’s Johann Bunte Bauunternehmen will build a ring-road to alleviating traffic congestion in Bremen, northwest Germany. The 1.7km bypass will be located…

Vinci Construction is celebrating the opening of a restored 93km stretch of Côte d’Ivoire’s Coastal Road between Dabou and Grand Lahou. It strengthens the link between the country’s two main…

Skanska has won a data centre project in Virginia, a supplemental waterfront facility in the eastern US and a road in Los Angeles. In Virginia, Skanska has landed a $242m…

Aecom has recruited an award-winning engineer from the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to be senior director of highway engineering in the Canadian province. Faisal Siddiqui spent 17…

Webuild’s US subsidiary, Lane Construction, has won a $299m contract to widen the Seminole Expressway and Florida State Road 417, a beltway that circles Orlando. Lane Construction’s scope of work…

A joint venture of Flatiron, Fred Smith Company, and designer ICE of the Carolinas has won the $449.9m Triangle Expressway Southeast Extension project in North Carolina. It will add 6.6…

Vinci Highways has agreed to buy NWP HoldCo, the company holding the concession for Denver’s tolled Northwest Parkway, a 14-km section of the city’s ring road. NWP HoldCo is currently…

Mexico’s transport ministry has cancelled 559 highway maintenance tenders and asked the army to take on the work instead, newspaper El Economista reports. The cancellation on 6 February appears to…

The government of India has announced plans to invest $723m in the first 11 sections of a strategic road in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the country’s far northeast.…

A Chinese consortium has agreed to invest $7bn in road improvements to settle a legal dispute with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Highways website reports. The dispute…