Strabag and Group company Züblin have secured the design-and-build structural works for the ABS Gäubahn Nord/Pfaffensteig Tunnel in south-west Germany, centred on an 11km twin-bore rail tunnel linking Stuttgart Airport station directly to the Gäubahn line towards Switzerland. About 9.8km will be driven by two TBMs, with conventional tunnelling for the A8 motorway undercrossing and airport connection, plus a 240m cut-and-cover section, retaining structures, railway underpasses and a grade-separated crossing. A 3km surface section will be upgraded and partially realigned for 200km/h operation, delivered under an integrated project delivery model with Ed. Züblin, Wayss & Freytag and Strabag AG sharing tunnelling, structural and earthworks packages.

A 271.5‑tonne Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM, Caroline, has started driving a 2.2km electricity cable tunnel with a 4m internal diameter beneath the River Thames in Essex for National Grid’s Grain to Tilbury project, delivered by the Ferrovial BEMO joint venture. The drive will pass through variable Thames estuary ground conditions between 35m‑deep launch and reception shafts of 15m and 12m diameter, with tunnelling continuing into 2026 and overall scheme completion targeted for 2029. The new tunnel will replace the 1969 Thames Cable Tunnel and carry new high‑voltage circuits between Grain and Tilbury substations.

A 13.46m diameter Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM has broken through into the future Balboa station on Panama Metro Line 3 after completing the first-ever TBM undercrossing of the Panama Canal at depths exceeding 60m below sea level. The 5,600kW, 26,616kNm machine, fitted with an accessible cutterhead and more than 4,500 sensors linked via the Herrenknecht.Connected platform, has achieved peak advance of 150 segment rings (about 300m) per month through mixed sandstone, tuff, breccias and basalt. Around 1.5km of the 4.5km twin-track tunnel remains to final breakthrough.

Federal funding for New York’s US$16bn Hudson Tunnel Project has been frozen, forcing the Gateway Development Commission to suspend works from 6 February after spending over US$1bn and employing about 1,000 site workers. A Manhattan federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order, giving the administration until 5 p.m. on 12 February to restore reimbursements or appeal, while contractors warn that demobilisation, resequencing and remobilisation will add cost and delay. Sites are now in “safe-pause” mode, with dewatering, ground support and environmental monitoring maintained, and assembly of two Herrenknecht TBMs in New Jersey likely to slip beyond the planned spring 2026 launch without funding certainty.

Swiss Federal Railways has awarded an Implenia/Marti 50:50 joint venture five of six MehrSpur Zurich–Winterthur lots worth just under CHF 1.7 billion, including the 8.3 km Brüttener tunnel (Lot 240) with twin 10 m diameter single-track tubes and a 1 km spur to Zurich Airport. TBM excavation will start in August 2029, with a roughly ten-year construction phase using BIM for planning and execution and extensive special foundations, earthworks and embankments. Additional works cover full redevelopment of Dietlikon station, about 6 km of new track across Dietlikon and Wallisellen sections, multiple underpasses, bridges and the Neumühle railway bridge and Storchen underpass near Winterthur.

A sinkhole roughly 8–10 m wide and several metres deep has opened on the AJ Burkitt Reserve sporting oval in Heidelberg, directly adjacent to the North East Link tunnel alignment in Melbourne’s northeast. Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority has confirmed the “surface hole” is in the vicinity of active tunnelling operations, leading to a work pause while engineers and emergency crews carry out geotechnical investigations and monitoring. No injuries or structural damage have been reported, but the area remains fully cordoned off pending cause determination and stability assessment.

TBM Xihe, a 7.3m-diameter, 100m-long, 1,000-tonne Herrenknecht slurry machine, has completed the up-track drive to the future Tung Chung West Station and has begun boring the down-track tunnel towards Tung Chung Station for MTR’s Tung Chung Line Extension in Hong Kong. The Bouygues Travaux Publics–Dragages Hong Kong JV turned the TBM underground within the launch shaft using a push-pull method and self-propelled modular transporter, avoiding full disassembly and surface transport. About 1.3km of new twin-bore tunnels are being driven close to existing rail and urban structures, with commissioning targeted for 2029.

Trafo Power Solutions is supplying 13 dry-type transformers for modular e-houses at a remote Pakistani copper-gold project being developed on one of the world’s largest undeveloped deposits. The South Africa-based firm is working through an EPC contractor to build out the mine’s medium-voltage power distribution, using dry-type units suited to high dust loads and fire-risk constraints typical of arid, remote sites. For engineers, the move signals growing reliance on pre-assembled e-houses and low-maintenance transformer technology to accelerate large greenfield mine electrification.

Datamine has taken a strategic equity stake in Brisbane-based Commit Works, whose Fewzion and Visual Ops platforms are used for operational planning and short interval control in underground and open-pit mines. The deal links Datamine’s long-range and tactical planning tools with Commit Works’ shift-level scheduling and frontline execution, aiming to close the gap between weekly plans and 4–12 hour operating windows. For engineers, this signals tighter integration of mine design, production data and work management on a single digital stack.

Aspire Housing has appointed Novus Property Solutions and Anglian Windows to replace ageing doors and windows across approximately 200 social homes in Staffordshire and Cheshire, many of which have units more than 10 years old. The programme targets improved thermal performance, airtightness and occupant comfort, which should cut space-heating demand and extend building fabric life. Novus says works will be sequenced to minimise disruption for residents, signalling a rolling retrofit model that asset managers can replicate across wider housing portfolios.

Sustainability specialist Phil Kelly has rejoined Ramboll as head of department for buildings advisory and consultancy in the UK & Ireland buildings unit, based in the Leeds office. The role covers strategic advice on low‑carbon building design, whole‑life carbon assessment and retrofit strategies across commercial, residential and public sector portfolios. His appointment signals continued demand for consultancy support on embodied carbon, energy performance and compliance with tightening UK regulations such as Part L and emerging net‑zero frameworks.

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering has appointed Mott MacDonald group director for external engagement Denise Bower as chair of ACE Group and Tetra Tech managing director for environment, sustainability and planning Rukhsana Faiz as chair of the Environmental Industries Commission. Bower brings experience from the Major Projects Association, the Infrastructure Client Group and previous work with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority on major project preparation and delivery. Faiz adds 28 years’ international consultancy, government and industry experience as ACE targets skills investment, pipeline certainty and responses to geopolitical and regulatory risk.

Legendre UK has been appointed main contractor for Berkeley Estate Asset Management’s 135,000 sq ft redevelopment of 50 Stratton Street in Mayfair, designed by Stiff + Trevillion as an all-electric office building. The scheme targets BREEAM Outstanding and LEED Gold, with a stated zero embodied carbon approach using lightweight steel and four new cross-laminated timber floors. Works include new stone-clad façades with aluminium-framed windows and curtain walling, with construction due to start in June 2026 and complete by mid-2028.

Genesis Energy, New Zealand’s largest electricity retailer and a major generator, has gone live on Workday’s enterprise AI platform to consolidate management of its 1000-plus workforce and financial operations. The deployment brings HR, payroll and finance onto a single cloud system, replacing multiple legacy tools and manual workflows across its thermal, hydro and wind generation assets. For mining and heavy-industry peers, the move signals growing adoption of integrated, AI-enabled back-office platforms to support large asset fleets and complex shift-based labour models.

Australia’s 2026–27 Federal Budget is drawing support from the mining sector for measures to bolster fuel security, including backing for domestic refining and storage that reduces exposure to imported diesel and marine fuels. Industry groups are also welcoming commitments to streamline project approvals, with a focus on faster environmental permitting and clearer timelines for major resources projects. Exploration companies, however, are pressing for stronger direct incentives such as expanded flow-through shares or targeted tax credits to sustain greenfields drilling.

Exploration activity across Australia is being driven by Amara Minerals’ rebrand from Adelong Gold as it advances the Adelong Gold Project in New South Wales alongside copper–gold targets in Queensland. Stelar Metals is progressing drilling on its South Australian critical minerals portfolio, including sediment-hosted copper and REE prospects near Broken Hill. Rincon Resources is simultaneously stepping up work on its West Arunta and Paterson Province tenements in Western Australia, focusing on IOCG-style and intrusion-related gold–copper systems.

Upgrades are progressing on Queensland’s Brisbane–Woodford Road (Mount Mee Road) between Dayboro and D’Aguilar, a key two-lane hinterland corridor linking the Moreton Bay region to Brisbane. The current planning phase is assessing existing pavement condition, horizontal and vertical geometry and roadside hazards to define targeted works on this steep, winding alignment. Outcomes are expected to guide shoulder widening, curve realignments and slope and drainage improvements, which will be critical for heavy vehicles and commuter traffic using this constrained rural route.

Rio Tinto has appointed Trudi Charles, currently senior vice president and head of legal for BP’s gas and low carbon energy business, as its new chief legal officer, governance and corporate affairs. Charles brings experience in large-scale energy project approvals, cross-border M&A and climate-related disclosure from BP’s global portfolio, signalling continued focus on regulatory risk and ESG scrutiny across Rio’s iron ore, aluminium and copper operations. Her remit will cover board governance, major project approvals and stakeholder engagement in jurisdictions with complex permitting and Indigenous land rights frameworks.

Alkane Resources has reported a record quarterly net profit of $93 million, its strongest result to date, driven by what management calls a “power of three” strategy across its gold operations and project pipeline. The result comes from higher-grade ore feed and improved recoveries at its existing gold assets, combined with disciplined cost control and advancing its Boda porphyry discovery in New South Wales. For mine planners and geotechs, the cash build strengthens Alkane’s capacity to fund further drilling, resource definition and potential underground development without immediate external capital.

Larvotto Resources’ initial flotation testwork on tailings storage facility 1 at the Hillgrove antimony-gold project in New South Wales reports 80–95% antimony and 40–75% gold recoveries from about 1.4 million tonnes of legacy tailings. The material, deposited over ~20 years from an antimony-focused plant, also carries significant gold and tungsten, with earlier work showing 90% tungsten recovery and a 16-fold grade upgrade into a saleable concentrate. Larvotto plans to run the same conventional flotation circuit in its upgraded plant from August 2026, coupling metal recovery with rehabilitation of a facility beside a 500-metre gorge.

Joint Federal–Victorian funding is backing stage two upgrades of Donnybrook Road in Melbourne’s outer north, as part of a $1.2 billion Road Blitz targeting key suburban arterials. Works focus on cutting congestion and crash risk on this growth‑area corridor, which currently carries rapidly increasing commuter and freight traffic between the Hume Freeway, new housing estates and industrial land. For designers and contractors, the programme signals continued demand for intersection upgrades, pavement strengthening and capacity increases on peri‑urban links.

The transition from traditional telematics to an AI‑driven ecosystem is now operational reality for Australian fleets, as showcased at Geotab Connect, the annual conference of connected vehicle specialist Geotab. Founder and CEO Neil Cawse detailed how Geotab’s platform is moving beyond GPS tracking to real‑time data analytics across entire vehicle fleets, using AI models trained on large, connected‑vehicle datasets. For road and infrastructure operators, this signals rapid uptake of AI‑based tools for route optimisation, asset utilisation and predictive maintenance of heavy vehicles and plant.

Master Drilling has commissioned its first remote drilling system in Canada at Agnico Eagle’s Odyssey Mine in Quebec, starting with reaming a 220-m hole using a 5.5-m diameter reamer. The RD7 raiseboring machine is operated remotely, removing personnel from the immediate drilling area while maintaining tight control of alignment and breakthrough. For geotechnical and mine planning teams, the successful large-diameter, long-hole trial signals growing viability of remote raiseboring for ventilation shafts and service raises in deep Canadian operations.

Volta Metals’ Springer rare earths project, 70 km east of Sudbury with road access and grid power on site, now hosts 56.6 million indicated tonnes at 0.7% TREO plus 119.5 million inferred tonnes at 0.58% TREO, including a near-surface high-grade core of 11.5 million tonnes at 1.1% TREO. A 1,638-metre drill campaign delivered an 11-fold resource increase over the historical estimate, with more than 5,000 metres planned to support a preliminary economic assessment by end-2026. Fall drilling also intersected 131.9 metres at 81.2 g/t Ga2O3 and 1.4% TREO from 59.6 metres, positioning Springer as a potential primary gallium resource pending recovery testwork.

Hemlo Mining has reported a standout intercept of 16.1 g/t gold over 8.1 m from 99 m depth in South‑Rim hole 7652606 at its Ontario mine, including a 2 m interval at 59.7 g/t, as part of a 130,000 m 2026 drilling campaign. South‑Rim sits 50–150 m from the producing C‑Zone and is interpreted as part of a plunge‑controlled structure extending >1.5 km vertically within a 300 m‑wide east‑west corridor, with five underground and one surface rig currently active. All seven completed South‑Rim holes hit mineralisation, which remains open along strike and down plunge, while step‑out work is shifting east towards the largely untested B‑Zone.

Gold held near record levels on Thursday, with spot bullion at about $4,693 an ounce after a 0.6% drop, as US wholesale inflation in April rose at the fastest pace since 2022 and 10-year Treasury yields approached their highest since July. Kevin Warsh’s narrow confirmation as Federal Reserve chair has revived concerns over Fed independence, echoing the January spike when such fears helped push gold to fresh highs. Silver has surged 18% so far in May to around $87 an ounce, driven by speculative trading in thin liquidity and momentum across silver, zinc and copper.

BME’s General Manager for Operational Excellence & SHERQ, Dr Ramesh Dhoorgapersadh, told the SAFEX International Congress XXI in Portugal that sustainable mine safety demands a “critical evolution” towards integrating health, wellness and broader human factors into risk management. His research links operational safety performance not only to traditional controls around blasting, explosives handling and SHERQ systems, but also to workers’ physical and mental health status. For mine operators, this points to embedding wellness metrics and human-factor diagnostics alongside conventional lagging and leading safety indicators.

A £19M “technically complex” footbridge, the Bridgewater Road Bridge, has opened in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, delivered by Kilnbridge for the London Legacy Development Corporation and developer Ballymore. Spanning a key waterway and rail corridor to connect new housing with the park, the structure had to be built under tight clearance constraints and live operational conditions. The scheme signals further densification of the Stratford waterfront area, with foundations and approach works likely to govern future utility diversions and adjacent plot layouts.

Elemental Royalty is acquiring Vizsla Royalties in a $239 million (C$327 million) deal, offering a 31% premium and securing a 2%–3.5% uncapped NSR royalty over Vizsla Silver’s Panuco silver-gold project in Jalisco, including 3.5% on the Silverstone and 2% on the Rio Panuco concessions. Panuco’s 2025 feasibility study outlines 17.4 million oz silver-equivalent per year over 9.4 years, with Vizsla Royalties estimating about 7,500 oz gold-equivalent annually to Elemental once in production. The transaction, backed by holders of 23% of Vizsla Royalties’ shares, is expected to close in Q3 2026.

Finning UK & Ireland has invested £200,000 in advanced Cat engine testing, including a new £160,000 high‑power dynamometer at its Cannock headquarters to certify build quality, strength and power for engines overhauled at its component rebuild centre. The dyno cell collects detailed power, torque and load data in a controlled environment to validate engines for Cat Certified Rebuilds and customer Self Service Repair Options, with settings tuned for fuel economy and reliability. The Cannock installation sits within a new 1,230 m² Rebuild Centre of Excellence being built to handle rising demand for full machine rebuilds and major reconditions.

Appian Capital Advisory is buying Omico Copper to take a 95% stake in Namibia’s Omitiomire project and plans to invest over $400 million to build a 30,000 t/y copper mine with a 15-year life and first production in about three years, 140 km northeast of Windhoek. The deal follows Appian’s 2023 purchase of the Rosh Pinah zinc mine and sits within a $1 billion partnership with the IFC targeting African and Latin American assets, including Santa Rita nickel in Brazil and Asante Gold’s Ghana operations. With copper trading near $14,000/t and S&P Global projecting demand to exceed 42 Mt by 2040, the move signals continued capital flow into technically advanced, near-development copper projects.

Overnight northbound closures will affect the M80 between Junctions 7 and 9 every Monday to Friday and most Sundays until 6 July, as gantry replacement works proceed under full carriageway shutdown. Transport Scotland and its contractors are moving to closures after thousands of drivers ignored temporary speed limits through the works, increasing risk to crews operating adjacent to live lanes. The change will concentrate heavy lifting, lane marking and electrical works into night-time windows but may push more HGV and commuter traffic onto local A‑roads during closure hours.

Screencore has launched the Orbiter 206R trommel, a 31‑tonne unit with a 7m³ hopper, 1,200mm heavy belt, and variable feed angle designed to maintain unencumbered material flow. The machine uses independent, radio‑controlled belt speed controls and a large PLC interface with full‑auto functionality, plus a Cat engine on 4m tracks with two‑speed drive and remote control for site mobility. A 180° radial fines conveyor with radio remote and auto‑functionality targets higher stockpile volumes and reduced loader rehandling on constrained sites.

Mott MacDonald has agreed to acquire Australian civil contractor Leed Engineering & Construction, expanding its capability to deliver water, transport and energy infrastructure across metropolitan, regional and remote areas. The deal adds a self-perform construction arm to Mott MacDonald’s existing design and advisory business in Australia, enabling integrated design-and-build delivery on complex civil works. For geotechnical and civil practitioners, the move signals more bundled packages where ground investigation, detailed design and construction of pipelines, bridges and treatment assets are procured from a single team.

Groundforce Shorco has launched SheetMaster 2.0, a 10‑tonne SWL multi-function trench sheet handling attachment with a ratchet release mechanism designed to prevent accidental sheet drops and remove the need for quick-release shackles. The unit lifts sheets to vertical, incorporates a driving cap to protect pile heads, and acts as an extractor, consolidating three separate tools into one while requiring no formal retraining for operators. Trials with JN Bentley, Seymour Construction, United Infrastructure and J Murphy & Sons report cutting personnel in excavator exclusion zones from up to four to one or two and eliminating work at height during sheet installation.

A £1.2bn Beach Management Framework has been let by the Environment Agency to Van Oord UK and the VBA Joint Venture to deliver beach nourishment and coastal maintenance along multiple stretches of England’s coastline. The long-term framework will cover works such as shingle recycling, sand replenishment and repair of hard defences, supporting schemes that typically involve millions of cubic metres of sediment movement and regular re-profiling of flood defence beaches. Contractors will need to plan around tight tidal working windows, nearshore dredging constraints and integration with existing sea walls and groynes.

Sandvik’s Digital Mining Technologies division, created in 2021 to drive underground electrification, automation, digitalisation and end-to-end optimisation, is now deploying interoperable systems across planning, execution and processing. The business integrates Deswik mine planning, Newtrax IoT and OptiMine/Fleet management with AutoMine automation to link real-time telemetry from loaders, trucks and drills to short-interval control and production scheduling. For engineers, the key shift is from siloed fleet and planning tools to a single data environment that can support dynamic haulage routing, energy use tracking and condition-based maintenance.

The Office of Rail and Road has rejected a proposed new passenger service from a Hampshire village to London Waterloo, citing the scale of infrastructure upgrades required on the existing route. ORR concluded that delivering the service would demand substantial works to track, signalling and junction capacity on already constrained sections into Waterloo, going beyond what could be justified for the forecast demand. The decision signals limited near-term scope for additional open-access or local-origin services into London terminals without major corridor-wide capacity enhancements.

Plans for the £7bn White Horse Reservoir near Abingdon in the Upper Thames catchment have been confirmed by regulators as sufficiently detailed to move to the next planning stage, with additional funding released to advance the scheme. The strategic raw water storage project, promoted by Thames Water, is now being prepared for a Development Consent Order (DCO) application expected in November. Geotechnical and civil teams can expect imminent demand for detailed ground investigation, embankment design and flood risk modelling to support the nationally significant infrastructure consent process.

Cameron Homes has secured East Staffordshire Borough Council approval for a £39m residential scheme delivering 119 homes on the former Bamford Works factory site in Uttoxeter, in partnership with JCB. Redevelopment of the brownfield industrial plot will require remediation of legacy manufacturing ground conditions and reconfiguration of existing utilities and access. The scheme signals further intensification of housing on ex-factory land in the Midlands, with geotechnical investigation and contamination management likely to be key early packages.

M Group has appointed Andrew English as managing director for energy infrastructure to expand its delivery of complex, large-scale engineering solutions across the UK network. English will oversee programmes to modernise critical assets and integrate battery storage, EV charging infrastructure and solar power into existing grids, supporting net-zero transition and grid resilience. He brings senior delivery experience from Skanska and John Holland in UK and Australian utilities and transport, signalling a push to scale M Group’s Energy Infrastructure and In-Home business lines in rapidly changing energy markets.

A Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM has begun driving a 2,200m National Grid cable tunnel under the Thames between Gravesend and Tilbury for the Ferrovial Bemo JV, following excavation of the launch shaft with a Herrenknecht Vertical Shaft Sinking Machine. The 4,730mm diameter, 108m-long, 464t machine is designed for mixed chalk–flint ground with compressive strengths up to 1,000MPa and water pressures up to 4.5 bar at 41m depth, using multiple sealing systems and a personnel airlock for hyperbaric interventions. The TBM installs 4.0m ID / 4.5m OD precast segmental lining on a 350m radius alignment, with hydraulic overcutter, mini gripper, anti-roll fins, face drilling rig, telescopic camera, VMT navigation and a dedicated separation plant and multi-service vehicles.

Mott MacDonald has agreed to acquire Australian civil contractor Leed Engineering & Construction, adding more than 350 staff across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to build an integrated design-and-construct water infrastructure offering. Leed brings delivery experience for SA Water, Coliban Water, Snowy Hydro and state climate and water departments across dams, trunk mains, environmental works, bridges, roads and major earthworks in metropolitan, regional and remote locations. The move mirrors the UK Mott MacDonald Bentley model, where nearly 3,000 people deliver end‑to‑end feasibility, design, construction and commissioning for water assets.

Rapid expansion across Papua New Guinea’s resources sector is driving the PNG Expo in Port Moresby as a key forum for miners, contractors and OEMs to negotiate new projects and supply contracts face to face. Delegates are targeting upcoming large-scale copper–gold and LNG developments, with particular interest in local haul road construction, modular camp infrastructure and power solutions for remote high-rainfall sites. For geotechnical and civil teams, the event signals growing demand for slope stability design, tailings storage planning and logistics corridors across highly weathered tropical terrain.

Commitments in the King’s Speech to implement previously announced energy policy measures signal continuity for grid and power infrastructure investment, which Beama says will directly benefit its electrical equipment manufacturers. Although short on new legislation, the focus on delivering existing plans gives developers and contractors clearer visibility on pipelines for substations, transmission upgrades and smart network technologies. For geotechnical and civil teams, this points to sustained demand for foundations, cable routes and grid-connection civil works rather than a major shift in project typologies.

Nearly $14 million in New South Wales Government funding is being directed this month to safety and reliability upgrades on the Kings Highway, a key freight and commuter link between the ACT and the South Coast carrying general freight and agricultural loads. Works are expected to target high‑risk sections and curves, intersections and overtaking opportunities to cut crash risk and improve travel time reliability for heavy vehicles. Geometric improvements, pavement strengthening and roadside safety treatments will be central for designers and contractors planning traffic staging and temporary works.

Two engineering consortia have been shortlisted by the New South Wales Government to design and deliver a fix for Mitchells Causeway on the Great Western Highway at Victoria Pass, closed since March after substantial cracking and ground movement were detected. The move follows an industry briefing and on-site inspection involving 20 Australian and international firms, signalling complex geotechnical and structural stabilisation requirements on this steep Blue Mountains section. Outcomes will directly affect detour durations, heavy vehicle access and long-term slope and pavement performance on this key freight and commuter corridor.

BHP president Americas Brandon Craig describes a “massive opportunity” to lift copper output from Tier‑1 assets such as the Escondida open pit in Chile and the Olympic Dam underground operation in South Australia. He points to latent capacity in existing concentrators, debottlenecking of haulage and crushing circuits, and incremental leaching projects as lower‑risk growth options compared with greenfield builds. For geotechnical and mining teams, the focus is on optimising pit slopes, underground ground support and tailings storage to sustain higher throughput without major new footprints.

Fortescue has joined the CoRE Learning Foundation as a garnet-level sponsor, backing its national STEM education program aimed at building a future workforce for mining, resources and renewable energy projects. The partnership supports CoRE’s project-based learning model, which links school curricula to real-world mine planning, orebody modelling and decarbonisation challenges faced by operators such as Fortescue. For geotechnical and mining engineers, this signals stronger pipelines of graduates familiar with digital geology tools, pit design concepts and energy-transition technologies before entering tertiary study or apprenticeships.

Tasmania’s Devonport Berth Three project has reached a key milestone with completion of the final gantry superstructure lift for the new Spirit Quay ferry terminal. The works will relocate the Spirit of Tasmania’s operational base from the existing Terminal One to Spirit Quay, designed to handle the larger Spirit of Tasmania vessels on the Devonport–Geelong route. Structural completion of the gantry frame now allows fit-out of ship-loading equipment, mooring infrastructure and associated landside civil works to proceed on programme.