Ongoing Projects
DoWH is currently managing several critical infrastructure projects aimed at enhancing connectivity, accessibility, and sustainability across provinces
- Highlands Highway Rehabilitation: Comprehensive upgrades to Papua New Guinea’s economic lifeline, focusing on slope stabilization, drainage improvements, and road widening to accommodate increased traffic.
- Kimbe–Kandrian Missing Link: Connecting previously isolated regions of New Britain Island to enhance trade, tourism, and local development.
- Bukawa Pilot Road Project: Serving as a model for sustainable rural road development, this project focuses on connecting remote communities to urban centers in Morobe Province.
- District Road Upgrades under DSIP: Developing feeder roads and small bridges to improve rural accessibility and economic opportunities.
Major achievements on the construction of the new missing link roads include
- Maramuni missing link road-100% open.
- Erave - Semberigi - 100% open-connecting the Southern to the Northern Region.
- Baiyer to Madang - 40% opened.
- Itape - Vanimo - 100% opened to traffic.
- Fisika - Lae - 80% open - will fully open this missing link by 2025.
- Central - Milne Bay - 50% open.
- Tabubil - Telefomin – 80% open and by September this year.
- Missing will be opened fully.
- Guimini – Karamui - Gulf - 40% opened.
