Bechtel Corp. reports increased revenue last year

TIRANA, April 14 – At a time when the country’s politics is still debating whether ex-transport minister Lulzim Basha, now foreign minister, should have been judged or not (Supreme Court dropped the case last week) Bechtel Corp. who is in charge of the Rreshen-Kalimash 61-kilometer long road segment, including a 5.5 kilometer long tunnel, shows to continue to increase its revenue at a time when all the world, and main US companies, are suffering from the crisis.
The corporation had $31.4 billion in revenue for 2008 compared to $27 billion in 2007 and $20.5 billion in 2006.
The San Francisco company has many projects around the world.
The company leads teams now managing both Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, where research is done in nuclear weapons, energy, medicine and many other areas.
In Hanford, Wash., on the banks of the Columbia River, Bechtel is building a vitrification plant designed to process and burn radioactive waste. It is also working on plants to destroy chemical weapons like mustard gas stored in both Colorado and Kentucky.
Overseas, Bechtel is working on renovations of three lines נJubilee, Northern and Piccadilly נof London’s Underground subway system under a 30-year contract. It finished a project to improve train service between London and Glasgow in 2008.
Bechtel is building highways in Romania and the mountains of Albania, and an airport in Qatar.
It has many other projects in the United States.
Riley Bechtel is chairman and CEO of the company, which has 44,000 workers. Bill Dudley is president and chief operating officer and Peter Dawson is chief financial officer.
Bechtel started in 1898 and has done work on all seven continents.