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At the end of March, a delinquent ship blocking a crucial artery in global trade showed how dependent the world is on functioning transport networks. Some 400 ships were held [...]

Getting the eternal city back on track F OR A MAN with the least enviable job in Italian politics, Roberto Gualtieri looks surprisingly cheerful. By last October, when he became [...]

JOE BIDEN'S plan to lavish spending on infrastructure is a crucial part of his bid for a transformative presidency. Much of the first tranche of around $2.7trn, now entering the [...]

A heavenly vision of Euston's future hs2 will destroy London's most-hated station and restore historical street patterns WHEN EUSTON STATION was built in 1837 it was an elegant terminus for [...]

Pakistan has addressed the challenges being faced in the execution of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects and the multibillion-dollar strategic initiative is progressing smoothly, said a top Pakistan official on [...]

The importance of social infrastructure in spatial planning is examined using the Thames Gateway as a case study. Details on planning framework for social infrastructure, and dealing with coordination issues and interaction between the planners and people in sectoral agencies in community development are discussed.

The Planning White Paper's proposals for planning of national infrastructure are at best unnecessary and are potentially dangerous. The proposals will not work in the mixed market economy and will hamper efforts to achieve sustainability.

AS DEVELOPING countries examine ways of improving the delivery of infrastructure services, reforming public enterprises along commercial lines looks quite promising. The World Development Report 1994 calls for a 3-pronged [...]

GOOD infrastructure services are essential to achieve economic growth and to improve the quality of life. But for most developing countries--despite improvements in access--the quantity and quality of services are [...]

The need for integrating plans for infrastructure development and land use is discussed by highlighting the problems faced in the construction of Tay and Forth railway bridges in Scotland.

Next week marks the opening of a grand new tunnel under the Bosphorus ABDUL MEJID I, the Ottoman's 31st sultan, had a dream. Reigning between 1839 and 1861, the determinedly [...]

A shopping list of infrastructure projects is not enough to rescue the economy GIANT steel columns are being drilled 16 metres into the earth at Royal Oak in west London, [...]

High-speed rail lines rarely pay their way. Britain's government should ditch its plan to build one AT THE launch of the Liverpool-Manchester railway in 1830, a statesman was killed when [...]

Rupert Murray. SAMBALA Resort tourism director Mandy Round is in talks with airlines, operators, agents and airports about improving links between the UK and Cape Verde. The archipelago has long [...]

A shake-up in planning could centralise power and weaken the say of local people BRITAIN, and especially England, is occasionally compared to North Korea (only half-jokingly) as one of the [...]

The St Lucia Tourist Board's funding for this year has been doubled to $50 million. A three-year 'roadmap for national development' was unveiled at last week's Caribbean Marketplace. A new [...]

Container traffic on the Yangtze River, China's leading inland transportation corridor, surged to a record 5.54 million TEUs last year, due mainly to increased domestic trade. That was a jump [...]

The energy revolution is waiting for Tory clarity The UK energy sector is facing an almost unparalleled set of challenges at present. Billions of pounds of investment in new infrastructure [...]

Fields lying west of the Shetland islands may hold enough gas to meet 8% of the UK's present consumption. Developing infrastructure in this hostile area calls for a multi-company initiative, [...]

Regime change given cautious welcome The sector gave a low-key welcome to the marine proposals. David Porter, chief executive of the Association of Electricity Producers, said offshore generation would benefit [...]

by Roger MilneThe government this week accepted the case for a major overhaul of the planning regime for large infrastructure schemes such as power stations, reservoirs, power lines and big [...]

Central America and southern Mexico are hoping that together they can achieve what they have failed to do on their own. The omens are not good. Central America has few [...]