Crews building the Gordie Howe International Bridge recently celebrated the milestone for the crossing between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

Crews building the new crossing will soon reach a milestone as bridge sections being built between Detroit and Windsor, Canada will be joined in the middle by the end of June.

Bridging North America, a partnership of Fluor, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Aecon Group, reached financial close late last month to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the 1.5-mile-long Gordie Howe International Bridge Project for the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority under a 36-year, $4.4-billion concessionaire agreement.

Major delays in a pair of multi­billion-dollar bridge proposals have handed Canada’s Trudeau government a setback as it pushes to get marquee infrastructure projects moving to boost the economy.