RATP Group subsidiary RATP Dev has signed an agreement with Zain Capital, which is part of the Lakhraim Business Group, to establish a joint venture that will target some of the United Arab Emirates' largest transport and urban planning projects.

TUNNEL boring machine (TBM) Al Mayeda, which started tunnelling at Al Corniche station on the Red Line of the Doha metro in November 2014, bored through into Msheireb station on June 11.

PLANS have been announced by Eng Irit Shperber, director of transport planning in Israel's Transport Ministry, for the construction of a tram-train line between Haifa Lev-Ha-Migrate, Kiryat-Ata, Shefaram, and Nazareth.

TRAIN services on Israel's coastal main line between Haifa and Nahariya will be disrupted for six months to enable the construction of a new junction which will connect the new Valley Line with the coastal main line at Haifa Lev Hamifratz, where a new station will be built.

FIVE consortia bidding for the civil works contract for the first phase of Oman's railway network have reportedly passed the technical evaluation carried out by Oman Rail for the project, with the railway subsequently meeting each of the bidding parties last week to discuss pricing.

CAF reported an 18.4% fall in net turnover to €306.6m in the first quarter of 2015 following a decline in industrial activity due to "scheduling reasons."

ISRAEL Railways (IR) held a three day conference last week to meet with the five participants in the tender for the national railway electrification project as they prepare to submit bids by July 23.

TUNNELLING has been completed on the Lusail light rail project while nearly 20km of the 113km of tunnels required for the Doha metro have been bored, Qatar Rail announced in Doha on April 21.

BRITISH engineering and environmental specialist Ricardo has purchased Lloyd's Register Group's railway consulting subsidiary Lloyd's Register Rail for £42.5m.