Rehabilitation of roads continues in western Georgia, where about 600 kilometres of roads are planned to be updated this year, the Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze said on July 26. Karseladze said that rehabilitation of an 11-km section of Gomi-Sachkhere-Chiatura road would be completed in September. In addition, works are underway in 16 different parts of…
The mixture of asphalt concrete with addition of recycled plastic materials MR8 has been use on two road segments from the central Straseni district. The mixture is made of an arrangement of recycled polymers and is conceived to extend the bituminous binder in a mixture of asphalt, thus reducing the volume of bitumen needed by…
Construction of a new Rail Baltica railway bridge, the longest of its kind in the Baltic countries, began in Lithuania’s central district of Jonava on July 21. Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte says the bridge over the Neris River and the European standard-gauge railway as a whole will make the country “better connected” to the rest…
DCT Gdansk, the operator of the largest container terminal complex on the Baltic Sea, has signed a contract for the construction of the third deep-water terminal known as T3. The contract is signed with a consortium of Budimex S.A. and Dredging International NV. The works are to start in September, after the end of the…
Daikin, a Japanese heat pump and air conditioning company, will build a facility in Ksawerow, central Poland, for EUR 300 million. Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, attended an inauguration ceremony of Daikin’s investment on July 7. The Japanese conglomerate’s first Polish facility will be operational in July 2024. “We want Poland to be a…
Richard Branson, a British billionaire and founder of Virgin Galactic, has visited the city of Hostomel, Kyiv region, where fierce battles with Russian invaders were raging in late February. The relevant statement was made by Hostomel Military Administration Head Taras Dumenko on Telegram. According to Dumenko, Branson is continuously showing support for Ukraine, its sovereignty…
The stage of the fulfillment of the tasks of the Road Fund Board was considered at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, the government’s communication and protocol department reported. The Infrastructure and Regional Development Ministry (MIDR) and the State Administration of Roads (ASD) presented the activity plan for 2021, as well as for…