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An agreement worth US$493 million will seal the future or road maintenance projects and highway upgrades in the Philippines.

Tenders are being received for a project to expand Duqm Port in Oman, with a key part of the plans including road projects.

Ennis Traffic Safety Solutions has sold its UK-based contracting subsidiary, Prismo Contracting Services to DBi Services of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

The International Road Federation (IRF) has awarded Delcan two Global Road Achievement Awards (GRAA) at their annual banquet in Washington, DC, for Quality Management and also for ITS.

The Indonesian Government has plans to build key new roads connecting West Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Sarawak (Malaysia), East Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Sabah (Malaysia), as well as roads in the south Java coast.

The Renault Nissan Alliance, PSA Peugeot Citroën and Mitsubishi Motors have decided to develop and promote the technical reference for compliance of public recharging equipment for electric vehicles in Europe, based on the existing conformity brand 'EV Ready', originally launched by Renault and Schneider Electric.

The International Road Federation has a new spearhead for its global road safety programme. Michael Dreznes will serve as the Federation's (IRF) executive vice president with worldwide leadership on training, policy and capacity-building activities.

The organisers of the co-located Traffex, Parkex and Street Design 2011 events say that exhibitors and attendees exceeded expectations.

A road project in Romania will benefit from funding supplied by the European Commission.

Brazilian contractor Odebrecht will carry out a major project in Panama City worth US$778 million.

Q-Free yesterday announced that it has been informed that the company will be awarded a contract for delivery of the congestion charging infrastructure in Gothenburg.

Major investments in Croatia's tolled highway network are being seen during this year.

The tender process is opening for a new highway project in Hungary.

Bosnia & Herzegovina plans to invest some €2.9 billion in constructing highways by 2017.

Hydro International is launching a new engineering consultancy for flood risk assessment and stormwater management in the UK and worldwide.