Maersk in India has recorded a 43 percent increase in the movement of containerised export cargo on rail in 2021. With import and export on rail combined, the growth figure comes out at 23 percent. Maersk...Read more
Contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won its third contract related to the construction of India’s first high-speed railway, several media outlets reported last week. The latest package will see the engineering and construction division...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the five northern federal states signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday for the fast-track expansion of railways and services in the north of Germany. The alliance, Future Northern Rail,...Read more
As of this week, the Rail Freight Corridor North Sea – Baltic (RFC NS-B) is extended to include the Polish town of Medyka in the east as well as the ports of Gent and Zeebrugge...Read more
ÖBB is planning large investments in several regions of Austria to improve the rail infrastructure. Many electrification projects, as well as some double track expansions and station renewals will happen in 2022.Read more
Polish rail infrastructure manager PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe has begun testing an anti-theft device for the railway catenary system. The tests in cooperation with Polands National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) are expected to...Read more
Planned UK high-speed railway line HS2 has revealed what its so-called green tunnels will look like, beginning with the one-and-a-half-mile long Greatworth tunnel. The double-arched structure is one of three tunnels to be built across...Read more
A new cross-city railway line wil run through Poland’s capital Warsaw, but which stations will it connect? That is the subject of a study that infrastructure manager PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe is commissioning for the...Read more
Yapiray has won a 1,9-billion dollar railway contract from the Tanzanian government for a section of the country’s 1,219-kilometre cross-country railway project.Read more
Railways offer the smallest risk of death and injury of all means of everyday transport per so-called passenger-kilometre, research published by German transport association Allianz pro Schiene on Thursday shows.Read more
Siemens Mobility will work with Frankfurt transportation company VGF in refurbishing the city’s metro network with a Communication Based Train Control System (CBTC). The contract marks the first major rollout of a CBTC system in...Read more
Deutsche Bahn earlier this month completed the renewal of the Berlin-Hamburg high-speed line. Rail infrastructure Vossloh on Wednesday detailed its involvement in the project.Read more
Railway engineering company Prose and consultancy Ricardo will join forces in developing a new set of requirements for Freight Automatic Train Operation (ATO) for DB Cargo, the two entities announced earlier this week.Read more
Swiss manufacturer Stadler, which has signed a contract to supply and maintain the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains in the UK, is now preparing its new depot.Read more
The allegedly biggest infrastructure project that Greece has ever seen was announced by the Greek ministry of infrastructure and transportation. A plan worth 4 billion euros foresees the start of six projects, including the application...Read more
