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1,800 Heavy Trucks Handed Over in Ghana and Zambia at a Single Conference, With Local Assembly, Bank Finance and a Parts Warehouse Attached
At its Africa partners conference in Port Elizabeth on 29 October, BAIC FOTON closed the event by handing over 1,000 heavy trucks to customers in Ghana and 800 to customers in Zambia, and signed six local-assembly agreements with partners in Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe — one ceremony in which the vehicles, the factory, the finance and the spare-parts stock all moved together.
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The Gambia Signs an Integrated Waste Concession With Zoomlion, Bundling Collection Trucks, Transfer Stations and an MBT Plant Under One Operator
At the State House in Banjul on 28 October, The Gambia signed a concession agreement with Zoomlion Ghana Limited that hands one private operator an integrated waste chain: a mechanical biological treatment plant, transfer stations, and the municipal solid waste collection and transport services that connect them. For truck suppliers, the deal is a reminder that in much of Africa the waste fleet is bought by operators running decade-scale contracts — not by one-off municipal tenders.
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Bulgaria Lays Out 25 Cross-Border Projects Worth EUR 22.8 Billion, Putting New Danube Bridges at the Centre of Its North-South Corridor
Bulgaria's Transport and Communications Minister Georgi Peev used the seventh Sofia Economic Forum on 26 October to position the country as the overland gateway between Central Europe, the Western Balkans and the Black Sea — and to put a number on it: 25 priority cross-border projects worth around EUR 22.8 billion under the Black Sea–Aegean corridor action plan signed in Brussels in September. For contractors and fleet operators, that is a decade-scale pipeline of road, bridge and port works running through three countries.
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Brazil Puts Four Highway Concessions on the Block in Five Weeks, and Every One Carries a 20-Year Maintenance Fleet
Brazil's federal highway programme closes 2026 with four concession auctions between 12 November and 18 December, from the R$10.4 billion re-bid of BR-163 to the R$15.7 billion Rota 2 de Julho in Bahia. Whoever wins takes on the construction programme and two decades of operation — the phase in which tow trucks, water tankers, sweepers and flatbeds are actually bought.
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Kenya Unloads 154 Machines in One Vessel Call as a US$16–17 Billion Megaproject Moves From Groundbreaking to Hardware
The Port of Lamu discharged 154 units of heavy construction machinery weighing 8,213 metric tonnes on 21 October — the second equipment shipment for the Dangote East Africa Refinery in under a month — and the Kenya Ports Authority says more vessels are already scheduled as the US$16–17 billion project enters a roughly 40-month construction phase.
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India Puts a 24/7 Rescue Post — and a Mobile Crane Rated for a 30-Tonne Truck — Into Every New National Highway Contract
India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a new Model EPC Agreement that obliges contractors on national-highway projects to run a round-the-clock vehicle rescue post with at least one mobile crane capable of lifting a 30,000 kg truck, and to pay penalties of up to ₹50 lakh (roughly US$60,000) per fatality when repeat crashes are traced back to defects they failed to fix.
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Peru Puts a Scrappage-Style Truck Fleet Renewal Pilot on the Table as Its Diesel Subsidy Expires on 15 November
Peru's Ministry of Transport and Communications sat down with the country's truck owners on 16 October 2026 and put a pilot fleet-renewal programme on the table — public incentives, purchase bonuses and scrapping mechanisms — just as the S/4-per-gallon diesel subsidy created under Emergency Decree 007-2026 enters its final claim window, which closes on 15 November. With diesel up more than half in real terms in a year and no extension announced, the government is steering hauliers toward gas.
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Cameroon's Hysacam Has Over 100 New Garbage Trucks Loaded for Shipment in a 305-Unit Fleet Renewal
More than 100 garbage trucks have been loaded for shipment to Cameroon under a procurement programme covering 305 vehicles, Hysacam — the company that collects household waste in Douala and Yaoundé — announced on 14 October 2026. The capital is to receive an initial batch of 30 trucks to reinforce the 90 vehicles already on its collection rounds, in a renewal that stretches back to an October 2025 order for 300 trucks and that, according to a Chinese manufacturer's own statement, includes a signed contract for more than 300 specialized waste collection trucks with a Chinese supplier. For exporters of refuse trucks, Central Africa's largest municipal waste operator is renewing its fleet in large, phased tranches — and the money question behind it is as instructive as the trucks themselves.
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Moldova Doubles Truck Capacity at Its Danube Gateway, Where 70–80% of Farm Exports Queue for One Border Post
Moldova has doubled lorry parking capacity at the Giurgiulești border area, expanding the site from 0.65 to about 1.28 hectares and from 30 to 60 trucks, in a project worth roughly 18 million lei that the European Union and the World Bank supported. The upgrade — concrete paving, upgraded water and sewage, driver sanitary facilities, an electronic weighbridge, lighting, backup power, access barriers and video surveillance — was announced by the Customs Service on 17 October 2026. It arrives in the middle of an autumn in which, according to the grain exporters' association Agrocereale, between 150 and 300 lorries have been queueing outside the same crossing every day.
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Tanzanian Agritech East Africa Foods Raises US$40m, With Cold Storage and Trucks at the Top of the Shopping List
East Africa Foods, a Tanzanian agritech company that links more than 28,000 smallholder farmers to over 10,000 urban retailers across Tanzania and Kenya, has raised about US$40 million to expand its supply chain infrastructure in East Africa. The package combines US$26 million in Series B equity, led by PIDG's InfraCo alongside Oikocredit and FMO, with US$14 million in debt from the Schmidt Family Foundation — and the company names outright what the money will buy: cold storage and trucks, as it pushes into Kenya.
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Dominican Republic Hands Municipalities 50 More Compactor Trucks, Taking the National Programme to 100 Units
Fifty more refuse compactor trucks have been handed to municipalities and municipal districts across the Dominican Republic in a second distribution that lifts the presidential programme's total to 100 units. Handed over on 13 October 2026 on the instructions of President Luis Abinader, the batch extends a scheme that began in 14 provinces to municipalities and municipal districts in 18 more — from Dajabón on the Haitian border to tourist-coast provinces such as Puerto Plata, Samaná and La Altagracia — and came with an unusually blunt warning from the presiding minister: the trucks will only last as long as the maintenance discipline behind them.
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Romania Gives Electric Trucks a 75% Toll Discount as Distance-Based Charging Replaces the Vignette
From 8 October 2026, a goods vehicle powered solely by electricity pays a quarter of Romania's per-kilometre road toll. Order no. 959/2026, published in Monitorul Oficial no. 847 and in force the day it appeared, adds a dedicated electric column to the TollRo tariff table — the charge that goods vehicles above 3.5 tonnes have paid per kilometre on Romanian motorways, expressways and national roads since 1 October 2026 — cutting the rate for a 12-tonne-plus electric truck from 0.48 to 0.12 lei per motorway kilometre, while Euro V-IV diesels carry a 15 per cent and Euro III-or-older diesels a 30 per cent surcharge over Euro VI.
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Zimbabwe Scraps the 25% Import Duty on Electric Trucks Above 5 Tonnes, Backdated to March 2026
Zimbabwe has zero-rated import duty on goods vehicles above 5 tonnes gross vehicle weight that are powered only by an electric motor, cutting the rate from 25 per cent to 0 per cent. The change sits in Statutory Instrument 159 of 2026, the Customs and Excise (Tariff) (Amendment) Notice, 2026 (No. 16), published in the Government Gazette on 16 October 2026 by the Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, and is deemed to have taken effect on 2 March 2026 — so qualifying trucks cleared since that date fall inside the exemption.
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Peru's Works-for-Taxes Pipeline Hits a Record S/9.4 Billion in 2026, With Roads Taking the Largest Share
Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión reports that the 'Obras por Impuestos' mechanism adjudicated 691 public-works projects worth S/9,409 million between January and September 2026 — more than triple the same period of 2025 and the highest nine-month total in the mechanism's 18-year history. Transport, at S/3,242 million, took the largest share, and regional governments captured half of the money while municipalities led by project count.
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Sri Lanka Seeks Bids for 1,435 New Government Vehicles, Including 160 Tippers and 100 Gully Emptiers
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has opened four National Competitive Bidding tenders for 1,435 brand-new vehicles and machinery — 1,000 double cabs, 175 tractors, 160 tippers and 100 gully emptiers — with bids closing between 20 and 22 October 2026 and participation restricted to authorised local agents nominated by the manufacturers.
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Uzbekistan Waives Land and Property Taxes for Logistics Centres Until 2040 and Opens Duty-Free Component Imports for Truck and Bus Makers
A presidential decree dated 12 October 2026 exempts Uzbekistan's transport and logistics centres from land and property tax until 2040 and clears customs duty and certification exemptions on imported warehouse equipment and handling machinery until 1 August 2029. Manufacturers of category M2, M3 and N vehicles — the classes that cover buses and goods vehicles — may import components not produced in Uzbekistan duty-free until 31 December 2027.
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Mexico Advances Southeastern Highway Widening to 64% Under a 3,161 km Priority-Roads Programme
Mexico's Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) says modernisation works scheduled for 2026 on the Macuspana-Escarcega highway in the country's southeast are 64% complete, with 65 work fronts expanding 54 kilometres to four lanes across Tabasco, Campeche and Chiapas. The 249-kilometre project carries an investment of 25.022 billion pesos (US$1.463 billion) and forms part of a federal programme that allocates 154.616 billion pesos (US$9.042 billion) to 3,161 kilometres of priority roads.
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Ghana Makes Vehicle Towing Compulsory From January 2027 to Clear Broken-Down Trucks Off Highways
Ghana's National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) will introduce a compulsory vehicle towing policy in January 2027, under which vehicle owners must either subscribe to a private towing service or hold an insurance policy that includes towing cover. The requirement is written into the updated Road Traffic Regulations, 2026 (L.I 2519) and the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1153). The authority is also developing a mobile application that will register towing operators so that a driver whose vehicle fails on the road can summon the nearest available recovery vehicle.
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Delhi Moves to Nearly Double Its Mechanised Road-Sweeping Fleet With 70 New Machines
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has awarded a contract for 70 mechanical road-sweeping machines (MRSMs) that would almost double the Indian capital's mechanised street-cleaning capacity — 55 of them battery-electric and 15 running on compressed natural gas (CNG). Deployment is targeted from mid-November 2026, ahead of the winter pollution season, but delivery scheduling has already slipped, prompting a back-up tender to hire 40 additional sweepers for four months.
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Rwanda Cold-Chain Operator Secures Up to US$18m for New Kigali Cold-Storage Facility
Cold Solutions Rwanda, the Rwandan operating platform of the ARCH Cold Chain Solutions East Africa Fund, has reached financial close on a senior debt facility of up to US$18 million from the Africa Go Green Fund, a climate-focused vehicle managed by Cygnum Capital. The financing covers construction and working capital for a new temperature-controlled facility in Kigali's Prime Economic Zone, starting at 4,000 pallet positions with scope to expand to 8,000.
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Cameroon Opens Bidding for 167 km Yaoundé–Edéa Reconstruction on World Bank Corridor Programme
Cameroon's Ministry of Public Works issued a Specific Procurement Notice on 8 October 2026 inviting sealed technical and financial bids for the reconstruction of the 167-kilometre Yaoundé–Edéa section of National Road No. 3, to be delivered in three concurrent lots under Phase 1 of the World Bank-financed Douala–Bangui Economic Corridor Improvement Programme. Bids close on 24 November 2026.
Read the briefing →EU Sets Negotiating Position on 2026 ADR/ADN Dangerous Goods Transport Amendments
On 28 September 2026 the Council of the European Union adopted Decision (EU) 2026/2233, fixing the EU position on the latest amendments to the ADR (road) and ADN (inland waterways) agreements for dangerous goods transport. The amendments, notified to contracting parties in mid-2026, will feed into Directive 2008/68/EC and shape future technical and documentation requirements for dangerous goods vehicles.
Read the briefing →Dubai Enforces New Truck Movement Restrictions From 1 October 2026
From 1 October 2026 the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Police enforce new truck movement restrictions across Dubai's road network, classifying roads by restriction tier to ease congestion and improve road safety while keeping freight moving.
Read the briefing →First Henan Cold-Chain Block Train Carrying Processed Meat Departs for ASEAN (Laos)
On 29 September 2026 a refrigerated block train left Zhengzhou International Land Port for Vientiane, Laos, carrying frozen meat and bacon under full-temperature, traceable cold chain — Henan's first shipment of deep-processed meat products to the ASEAN market.
Read the briefing →GSO Issues MY2028-D3 Vehicle Rulebook; Saudi Adds Six New Safety Requirements
In September 2026 the Gulf Standardization Organization published the MY2028-D3 motor-vehicle technical regulation list, its first annual update since MY2027-D4. Saudi Arabia alone adds six new national requirements, including side-pole impact, ESC and repair-information access.
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EU Unifies Dangerous Goods Road Checks Under Directive (EU) 2025/1801
A single ADR inspection checklist and a three-tier violation grading take full effect across EU member states on 24 June 2026, changing how roadside checks of dangerous goods vehicles are carried out and how faults are penalised.
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Vietnam and Kazakhstan Tighten Import Rules for Commercial Vehicles
Vietnam and Kazakhstan both raised emission and vehicle-age requirements for imported commercial vehicles in 2026, according to industry reporting on China's special purpose vehicle export trade - a change that raises the compliance bar for trucks entering both markets.
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Gulf Cold-Chain Investment Lifts Refrigerated Truck Demand in 2026
Cold-chain infrastructure investment across the Gulf states keeps expanding in 2026: regional analysis points to more than 25% year-on-year growth in Middle East refrigerated transport equipment procurement, supported by Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 programmes and the UAE's national food security strategy.
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Kinshasa Tramway Cost Put at US$9bn as Terms Stay Open
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has put the cost of Kinshasa's planned tramway network at US$9 billion, according to an estimate presented by Infrastructure Minister John Banza Lunda at a meeting in Brussels on 24 September 2026. Financing terms remain under negotiation.
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Kenya Reviews KES 8.3bn Mombasa Port Access Road
The Kenya Ports Authority is under parliamentary scrutiny over its KES 8.344 billion project to build a 1.8-kilometre dual carriageway, including a 704-metre elevated viaduct, to ease container traffic around the Port of Mombasa.
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Johannesburg landfills near capacity as waste surges
More than 90% of Africa's waste is dumped in uncontrolled sites, and waste volumes in sub-Saharan Africa are projected to grow 124% by 2050, an Associated Press report said on 18 September 2026, citing UNEP and World Bank figures. In Johannesburg, only two of the city's four landfills still accept waste, and together they hold less than one year of remaining capacity, according to South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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Construction Starts on ADB-Funded 92 km Uzbekistan Highway
Construction began on 18 September 2026 on a 92-kilometre section of the A380 highway in Uzbekistan's Karakalpakstan region, financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The works form part of the CAREC Corridor 2 programme and carry a project value of US$233 million.
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Egypt Opens EBRD-Backed Waste Transfer Stations
Egypt has opened two municipal waste transfer stations in the Nile Delta with a combined design capacity of 600 tonnes per day, the first assets completed under the solid-waste component of the Kitchener Drain Depollution Project, which is financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union.
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Georgia Opens GEL 144.8m Road Rehabilitation Tenders
Georgia's Roads Department announced four electronic tenders on 15 September 2026 for the rehabilitation of 65.1 kilometres of domestic-importance roads, with a combined estimated value of GEL 144,845,976.
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Kazakhstan Invites Bids for 134 km IsDB-Backed Highway
Kazakhstan's national road company QazAvtoJol has opened international bidding for the reconstruction and upgrading of a 134.24-kilometre section of the Kyzylorda–Saksaulsk highway, backed by a EUR 376.05 million Islamic Development Bank facility. The financing is extended on a forward-lease basis under a sovereign guarantee and covers the section running from km 327.78 to km 462.03 of the corridor.
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Rwanda Re-tenders AfDB-Backed Rubavu Waste Treatment Plant
Rwanda's water and sanitation utility WASAC Development Ltd has re-issued the tender for a faecal sludge treatment plant and landfill in Rubavu Town after terminating the previous contract over poor performance. The Rwf 4.1 billion facility forms part of the Rwanda Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Programme, financed by the African Development Bank, and bids close on 27 October 2026.
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Bogotá North Access Concession Closes US$381m Debt Facility
Concesión Ruta Bogotá Norte has reached financial close on a COP 1,220 billion (US$381 million) debt facility to fund construction on Bogotá’s northern access corridor. Colombia’s national development bank, Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional, holds 50% of the syndicated facility, with J.P. Morgan and MUFG at 25% each.
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World Bank Approves US$667m in Vietnam Connectivity Projects
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved three operations in Vietnam worth a combined US$666.74 million in loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, covering a new stretch of Ring Road 3 in Hai Phong, 251 kilometres of highway rehabilitation in the Mekong Delta, and the modernisation of nine fishing ports.
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South Africa Signs US$1bn Municipal Infrastructure Loan
South Africa's National Treasury and the New Development Bank have signed a US$1 billion loan to upgrade infrastructure for metropolitan municipal services, with solid waste management, water and sanitation named among the priority sectors.
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