France’s Vinci Highways has announced the opening of the 75km-long Patras-Pyrgos highway in the western Peloponnese. Vinci’s scope of work included design, financing and programme management of the corridor and…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a further €217m for a 27km expressway linking Uganda and Rwanda, bringing the total spend for the project to €424m. The Busega–Mpigi and…

UK-headquartered project consultant Turner & Townsend has been appointed strategic delivery partner for Africa’s biggest road public-private partnership (PPP), the $3.6bn Usahihi Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway. The 459km tolled highway will cut…

Jacobs will design and Sundt Construction will build an expansion of the Interstate 10, in what will be southern Arizona’s largest highway construction project. Arizona Department of Transportation’s $600m Kino…

The US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild has won a $238m design-and-build contract to expand the Interstate 75 in north-central Florida. Lane Construction will provide auxiliary lanes between interchanges, bridge replacements,…

Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $337m contract to widen a 16km section of the I-85 highway in Gaston County, North Carolina, a busy commuter route in the…

Three international consortiums have been shortlisted for the next section of New Zealand’s Northern Expressway, a public-private project to connect the major towns in the North Auckland Peninsula, broadcaster RNZ…

The chief minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, today opened the 91km Gorakhpur Expressway, an $841m project he kicked off in 2018. The four-lane toll road,…

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has awarded Sweden’s Skanska a $435m (NOK 4.4 billion) contract to replace an Arctic section of Norway’s main north-south road, the E6 highway. The old…

Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister of roads and highways, has said the ill-fated Goa to Mumbai highway is due to be completed in June. Work on four-laning the 580km route began…

Kenya has decided to terminate a €1.3bn road-building contract with a consortium led by French contractor Vinci Highways and is expected to give it to an unnamed Chinese company, Reuters…

A breakthrough is expected today on the 4.5km-long Silkyara Bend-Barkot road tunnel in the Himalayan mountains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand as excavation teams meet in the middle.…

The highway subsidiary of Vinci has taken over a 594km stretch of the motorway between Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia after agreeing a 30-year concession with the Brazilian National Land…

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the suspension of the $1bn Kensington Expressway Project in Buffalo because the state’s department of transportation (NYSDOT) did not conduct an…

Montenegro is to cancel the pre-qualification tender for a 22km motorway project following a request from the EU and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which are financing…

Californian contractor Granite has signed an $88m contract with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to expand a section of the Ortega Highway State Route 74 near to Lake Elsinore.…

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…

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala opened the country’s first motorway procured through a public-private partnership (PPP) this week after a €530m project Vinci Construction started just under four years ago.…