A joint venture of Portugal’s Mota-Engil and South Africa-based engineering company Concor Holdings Ltd. has won a $118-million contract for the construction of South Africa’s longest-span cable-stayed suspension bridge.

Proposed new port in Durban is to be created by excavating an old airport into a basin, but economic downturn causes sponsor to shelve it for now. Meanwhile, plans for existing port expansion stay on track.

First unit out of four in South Africa's pumped-storage program expected to be commercially operational by 2017