RailTech Europe`24Could you place Europe’s seven most significant rail infrastructure projects on a map? It may be harder than you think. Attendees from all over Europe participated in these challenges throughout the RailTech Europe 2024 conference,...Read more
Rail Baltic Estonia sealed fresh construction agreements today for the mainline of the railway in Rapla County. Verston and Järelpinge Inseneribüroo, who jointly submitted a bid, are set to kickstart construction on the Rail Baltica...Read more
Construction has begun on the Rail Baltica bridge over the Daugava River in Riga, marking a significant step forward in the development of the Rail Baltica Central Hub in Latvia’s capital city. Led by the...Read more
Latvia’s Ministry of Transport will allocate around 175 million euros to Rail Baltica in 2024. Of this amount, 115 million euros are secured through EU funding. The focus will primarily be on advancing the design...Read more
The Rail Baltica international railway project will cost significantly more than originally planned and is facing delays, according to reports of the investigative Latvian television show De Facto. A railway bridge across the Daugave river in...Read more
IRS 2023The Intelligent Rail Summit (IRS) 2023 has officially kicked off this Monday in Warsaw, Poland, at the Sofitel Victoria Warsaw. A look back to the first day. What is Poland doing differently? What are the...Read more
INTERVIEWDesigning future-proof digital infrastructure for a greenfield railway project is no small feat. Andy Billington, Innovation and Digital Architecture Senior Expert at Rail Baltica, shares his perspective on the opportunities and challenges that come with...Read more
Poland is laying a key piece of new European rail infrastructure. The billion-euro-CPK plan gives the country a change to be frontrunner in new wayside train monitoring systems, monitoring solutions and asset management programmes. For...Read more
The Lithuanian government has begun land acquisitions in the area between the city of Kaunas and the Polish border. Transferring ownership of plots of land and objects to the government should speed up preparations for...Read more
Spanish operator Renfe announced the launch its fifth business unit on Wednesday, in a bid to manage and grow its international activities. Renfe Proyectos Internacionales was created following the restructuring of Renfe Operadora.Read more
Rail Baltica has been awarded 928 million euros from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), a European funding instrument. Combined with national co-financing from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the three Baltic States that the new high-speed line...Read more
Spanish operator Renfe has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chilean State Railway Company (EFE) to explore future areas of cooperation. The move marks the next step Renfe’s efforts in lending expertise abroad.Read more
Another Estonian section of the planned Rail Baltica project has been given the green light. The compliance of the environmental impact assessment of the fifth out of a total of eight sections was recently confirmed...Read more
For the development of high-speed rail in the ‘Three Seas Region’ between the Baltic Sea in the North, the Black Sea in central Europe and the Adriatic Sea, Poland’s Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), Rail Baltica...Read more
RERE INECO, a Latvian-Spanish association of companies, will develop the construction designs of the Latvian stations of the new Rail Baltica high-speed railway. Eiropas Dzelzceļa līnijas, Rail Baltica’s national implementing body in Latvia, and RERE...Read more