Port of Melbourne Finishes Swanson Dock Rail Overhaul

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Melbourne Airport Rail Link

  Melbourne Airport, Victoria, Australia

  

  Starts 12/31/2033DELAYED4 years late67% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsDate has moved, per the source^[1]: originally due by 2029, "that deadline is now looking a lot more like 2033"; Victoria’s own project page confirms the later date.

  A AU$12BN rail line to finally connect Melbourne Airport to the city, alongside a AU$4.5BN airport overhaul that adds a third runway and expands the international terminal.

  A$12B

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Victorian Railways Completes the New Flinders Street Station Building

  Flinders Street Station, Melbourne VIC 3000, AustraliaVictorian Railways

  

  Starts 12/31/1909ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE116.7 years agoWikipedia^[2] dates the current building's completion to 1909 - "essentially finished by mid-1909" - with the Flinders Street verandah and the concourse roof finished only after the official opening in 1910. No source gives an exact day, so the date sits on the last day of 1909.

  Victorian Railways finished the current Flinders Street Station building in Melbourne, replacing earlier structures with the Federation Free Classical terminus still in use today. The building was essentially finished in 1909, with the official opening the following year.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Network Rail Completes the London Bridge Station Redevelopment

  London Bridge Station, London SE1 9SP, UKNetwork Rail

  

  Starts 05/09/2018CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE8.4 years agoNetwork Rail's^[3] own history page states London Bridge station was officially reopened by the Duke of Cambridge on Wednesday 9 May 2018.

  Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Port Waratah Begins Shiploader 7.09 Overhaul at Kooragang Terminal

  Curlew Street, Kooragang Island, NSW 2304, AustraliaPort Waratah Coal Services

  

  Starts 07/01/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoPort Waratah's 6 May 2025 news release states the four-month refurbishment outage on Shiploader 7.09 began in July 2025.^[1]

  Port Waratah Coal Services took Shiploader 7.09 offline for a four-month overhaul at its Kooragang Coal Terminal, fitting a new seven-metre loading chute and trimmer flap. The refurbishment is part of a $270 million program to modernise the Newcastle coal export terminal.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop East Targets 2035 Opening

  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  

  Starts 12/31/2035ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: Stage One "will cost an estimated $33BN and will be finished by 2035," a target that depends on continued state funding for a multi-decade build.

  Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop, a 90km orbital line built to connect Melbourne's suburbs without funnelling every trip through downtown, is aiming to open its first 26km stage in 2035. The state costs its first two stages at AUD $31-58BN; Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office put the build at $125BN.

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• Marine09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes

  Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay reach near Morgans Point, TexasPort Houston

  

  Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.^[1]

  Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  SEA Gateway Project Completes at Seattle-Tacoma's Main Terminal

  Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, SeaTac, WashingtonPort of Seattle

  

  Starts 01/28/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE238 days agoThe Port of Seattle's 28 January 2026 release is headlined "SEA Airport and Alaska Airlines Celebrate Completion of SEA Gateway Project".^[1]

  The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

  $546M

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hong Kong Opens the Sha Tin to Central Link's Cross-Harbour Extension

  Exhibition Centre Station, Wan Chai North, Hong KongMTR Corporation

  

  Starts 05/15/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the cross-harbour section was set to "fully open on May 15," reported days ahead of the 2022 launch.

  Hong Kong's MTR opened the cross-harbour section of the Sha Tin to Central Link, an immersed-tube rail tunnel under Victoria Harbour that gave Hong Kong Island a fourth rail link to Kowloon.

  $11.6B

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  TT-Line's Ferry Peter Pan Returns to Service After a 30-Meter Lengthening

  Bremerhaven, GermanyTT-Line

  

  01/15/2018 - 02/28/2018ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE8.7 years agoShippax^[3] and Ferry Shipping News^[2] report the lengthening ran from early 2018 with a return to service expected by late February 2018; no single exact redelivery date is published.

  German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven cut the 2001-built ro-pax ferry Peter Pan in two and inserted a prefabricated 30-meter midship section, stretching her from 190 to 220 meters for TT-Line.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Australia High Speed Rail Reaches Sydney

  Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaHigh Speed Rail Authority

  

  Starts 12/31/2039ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 13.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: the project is expected to be "shovel-ready by 2028 and welcoming passengers by 2039", pending the development phase's outcome.

  Australia has funded a two-year development phase for its first high-speed rail line, a 1,800km network starting with Newcastle to Sydney that has been promised since 2013.

  A$659.6M

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hamburg Port Authority Opens the Rethebrücke as Europe's Largest Rail Bascule Bridge

  Rethe Canal, Hamburg, GermanyHamburg Port Authority

  

  Starts 12/15/2017CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoHamburg Port Authority's^[3] press release states the Rethebrücke, Europe's largest rail bascule bridge, went into operation on 15 December 2017.

  Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  LaGuardia Airport's $8BN Redevelopment Fully Wraps Up

  LaGuardia Airport, Queens, New York, USALaGuardia Gateway Partners

  

  Starts 12/31/2024ESTIMATED64% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoEstimated: the sources put Terminal B's completion in January 2022, Terminal C's substantial completion in June 2022 and its "final gates completed in 2024"; none dates the overall wrap-up more precisely than 2024, so the pin sits at the end of that year.^[1]

  The full rebuild of LaGuardia Airport's terminals, once mocked as America's worst airport experience, was completed.

  $8B

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