News about highway

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 17): The new completion date for the Sabah portion of the Pan Borneo Highway will be announced after the tabling of the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP), which is scheduled for early next year, said Deputy Works Minister Datuk Eddin Syazlee Shith (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will not revert back to the project delivery partner (PDP) structure for the Pan Borneo Highway project, although the Ministry of Works has put in place a mitigation plan to further improve the execution of the project.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 25): The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government may not proceed with the takeover of four toll highways which Gamuda Bhd has a majority stake in — Damansara-Puchong Expressway, SPRINT Expressway, Shah Alam Expressway, and SMART Tunnel — according to Affin Hwang Capital Research.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): A US trooper stopping a car with a suspected “impaired driver” on a US highway on Monday was bemused to find a five-year-old in the driver’s seat, Reuters reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 26): Sunway Construction Group Bhd (SunCon) said it had received a letter of award (LoA) on highway construction, from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) worth a total 8.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 20): PLUS Malaysia Bhd said the southbound Ebor toll plaza (entry) in the North–South Expressway Central Link (ELITE), where a toll operator tested COVID-19 positive on March 18, has resumed operations at midnight today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 2): WCE Holdings Bhd says toll collection has started at Section 5 of the West Coast Expressway, operated by its 80%-owned unit West Coast Expressway Sdn Bhd.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 12): The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has rebutted claims that the total cost of the Sarawak portion of the Pan Borneo Highway project was RM16.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 7): Ekovest Bhd and its wholly-owned subsidiary Ekovest Construction Sdn Bhd (ECSB) are being sued by their former joint venture partner Samling Resources Sdn Bhd over a dispute involving work on the Sarawak portion of the Pan Borneo Highway project.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 7): Touch n' Go Sdn Bhd (TNG), which is planning to expand the use of its RFID tag beyond highways, is targeting to double its RFID tag users — which number one million now — by the end of this year.