The Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications has signed off on the so-called alternative 6A route for the Rail Baltica section from the city of Kaunas to the border with Poland, the developers announced on...Read more
The Rail Baltica project team in Lithuania officially launched the start of construction of the railway section towards the Latvian border last week. A symbolic road sign in Čiūdai Village in Lithuania was put up...Read more
Throughout the pandemic, track access charges were reduced, mark-ups were waived and infrastructure managers were compensated, in order to support the rail sector in these difficult times. Now that the pandemic is making its retreat,...Read more
To improve infrastructure for military and civilian purposes, the EU has selected 22 projects and grants 339 million euros from the Military Mobility fund in the first round, having accelerated the approval in face of...Read more
Lithuanian infrastructure manager LTG Infra has signed a contract with the Italian company Rizzani de Eccher for the construction of a railway bridge over the river Neris near Jonava. Part of the new Rail Baltica...Read more
A new survey among residents of the Baltics shows a slight increase in support for the Rail Baltica railway compared to previous years. In Estonia, still half of respondents are not convinced about the new...Read more
InterviewThere is an ambitious plan to build a tunnel from Helsinki to Tallinn. Peter Vesterbacka, COB and founder of the company behind the project and founding partner Kustaa Valtonen talk about the progress of the...Read more
Engineering and consultancy groups SYSTRA, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group (ITALFERR) and EGIS have been appointed as engineering and works supervision contractors for Rail Baltica’s control-command and signalling (CCS) subsystems deployment. The contract signed on...Read more
The section between Kaunas and Vilnius of the Rail Baltica line in Lithuania will be planned along the northern route, stakeholders recently agreed. The northern route, also called the northern S5 alternative, was deemed the...Read more
AnalysisAn undersea tunnel between Finland and Estonia, which brings together the two capitals as a twin city. The ‘Talsinki’ tunnel is a vision of entrepreneur Peter Vesterbacka, but the countries’ governments are wary to have...Read more
The first of the procurements of Rail Baltica’s basic route has been launched, with the tender for the main line in Latvia. It involves more than 200 kilometres of infrastructure – railway foundations and superstructures...Read more
InterviewRail Baltica is without a doubt one of the largest railway projects in Europe, but there exist doubts about whether the benefits outweigh the high costs in the Baltic states. RailTech talked to Priit Humal...Read more
A consortium of engineering company Italferr (of FS Italiane Group), Deutsche Bahn and the Spanish Idom will carry out the electrification of the new high-speed line Rail Baltica. It is the largest single contract for...Read more
Finland and Estonia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday 26 April 2021 for more cooperation. This will promote projects such as Rail Baltica, the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel, Trans-European Transport Networks, and the North Sea–Baltic Sea...Read more
