The Highways Department signed a EUR3.69 billion ($4.792 billion) contract with China State Construction Engineering for the Central-Wan Chai Bypass (CWB) Project in Hong Kong. The contract involves the construction of a 300 m-long section of twin box tunnel under the seabed of Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter and a 150 m-long slip road tunnel beneath the existing Victoria Park Road and the northern part of Victoria Park. The project is a 4.5 km-long dual three-lane carriageway with a 3.7 km-long tunnel connecting Central to the corridor at North Point via Wan Chai and Causeway Bay. Construction works for the project started in 2009 and will be completed in 2017. Visit www.news.gov.hk/en/categories/infrastructure/html/2013/03/20130314_180211.shtml, www.hyd.gov.hk and http://english.cscec.com/. Contract n. HY/2010/08. 15/13.
