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…

Vietnam will spend $1.4bn on two ambitious motorways in its mountainous northwest. One will be a 121km link between the provinces of Cao Bang and Lang Son on the Chinese…

Portuguese contractor Mota-Engil has signed three contracts in Angola and another in Mexico together worth $1.1bn. The company’s African subsidiary said Monday that Angola’s public works ministry had picked it…

India has paved a kilometre of highway with a bitumen mix that uses processed steel slag as the aggregate instead of gravel. The Ministry of Science and Technology said steel…

Thiess Group company Maca Civil has been picked to design and build the M80 Ring Road Completion in Melbourne, Australia in partnership with Acciona and designer Aecom. The project will…

Ireland’s Cork County Council has picked US engineer Jacobs to be its technical advisor for the new M28 motorway linking the N40 South Ring Road to the Port of Cork…

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has approved a $607m loan for five projects aimed at improving Honduras’ road system. The loan will fund the Honduras Resilient Roads…

Swedish contractor Skanska and Norwegian civil engineer Syltern have won a contract to build a highway in Norway’s central Trøndelag County. This 15km section of the E6 highway will link…

The US and the EU have joined forces with the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the Africa Finance Corporation to launch the west’s latest attempt to counter China’s Belt and…

A court in Vietnam has sentenced 22 people to prison terms of up to six years for malpractice and negligence in building a major expressway. It also fined five contractors…

Iranian companies are to build a 32km stretch of Armenia’s North–South highway. According to Russian news agency Interfax, the project is located in the south of Armenia and will run…

Clandillon Civil Consulting and precast specialist Killeshal have installed around 2km of Dura Products’ recycled kerb-and-drain system on the N63-Majors Well Road in Longford, Ireland. Made from 70% recycled plastic…

The US government has agreed to restore a sacred First Nation site in Oregon after a 15-year battle in the Supreme Court. The Place of Big Big trees, on the…

President Ruto of Kenya is to use his visit to Beijing later this month to ask China for a $1bn loan to restart work on stalled road projects. He will…

The first tenders for a 1,028km motorway between Abidjan and Lagos, the capitals of the Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria, will be published in January, an official from the Ecowas group of West African states has said.

Skanska has signed an $834m contract with the Washington State Department of Transportation to expand and improve a 7.2km section of the I-405 corridor in Bothell. The project will create…