WORLD IN BRIEF

摘要

A Vinci and Gammon joint venture is to build the new S$644 million (US$471 million) extension to the existing Ang Mo Kio metro station in Singapore. Bachy Soletanche Singapore, a subsidiary of Vinci Construction, and Gammon Construction and Engineering was awarded the contract by the city state's Land Transport Authority. Described as "a technological challenge in a very tight urban environment" by Vinci, the expansion of the metro station will join Singapore's existing North-South Line with its new Cross Island Line.Construction work on the first of six new bridges in Istanbul is set to start, as part of an ambitious project known as Kanal Istanbul.The highly controversial project calls for a 45km-long artificial sea-level waterway (or canal), to run parallel to the Bosphorus strait and connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. When completed, the canal is expected to have a capacity of 160 vessel transits a day, enough to greatly ease traffic conditions and improve safety on the congested Bosphorus.