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September 17, 2020 | Infrastructure

Lithuania awards design contract for Kaunas railway node

THE Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications and national infrastructure manager LTG Infra have awarded a €1.1m contract to Spanish engineering firm Ardanuy Ingenieria to prepare development plans for the Kaunas railway node as part of the Rail Baltica project.

August 18, 2020 | Infrastructure

EDZL to take over infrastructure management of Rail Baltica in Latvia

LATVIA has announced its support for a single joint infrastructure manager for the Rail Baltica (RB) railway and has transferred management of the country's planned RB infrastructure to its project manager European Railway Lines (EDZL) on an intermediary basis while negotiations progress.

July 16, 2020 | Infrastructure

Rail allocated €1.6bn from EU €2.2bn transport fund

THE European Union (EU) has announced €2.2bn in funding for 140 transport projects through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). Rail will receive the lion’s share with €1.6bn allocated to 55 projects on the trans-European transport (TEN-T) core network.

July 16, 2020 | Infrastructure

Next stop: the station of the future

New technology coupled with better design and the use of innovative materials are helping to make stations easier to navigate, safer and more environmentally friendly. David Burroughs reports on the latest developments in station design.

June 18, 2020 | Europe

TEN-T Network unlikely to be completed by 2030, European Court of Auditors finds

THE core Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is not likely to be completed by the 2030 deadline agreed in 2013, a report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found.

May 15, 2020 | Freight

Bids invited for Estonian multimodal freight terminal

RB Estonia, which is responsible for implementing the Rail Baltica project in Estonia, has issued a call for tenders for the design of Muuga multimodal freight terminal.

April 30, 2020 | Infrastructure

Rail Baltica project unaffected by coronavirus pandemic

RB Rail’s chairperson Mr Agnis Driksna says the Rail Baltica high-speed rail project linking Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland is not being disrupted by Covid-19.

April 6, 2020 | High-speed

Final design contracts for Latvian Rail Baltica line awarded

RB Rail, the body implementing the Rail Baltica project, has awarded two contracts on behalf of the Latvian Ministry of Transport for design and design supervision of the two remaining sections of the Latvian main line.

February 19, 2020 | Infrastructure

Integrated rail network planned in Riga

LATVIA’s Ministry of Transport has appointed a team led by RB Rail to conduct a four-month study of how to integrate Rail Baltica with the conventional rail network in Riga.

January 7, 2020 | Policy

Rail Baltica updates processes following audit results

THE Rail Baltica (RB) joint venture has responded to the results of a joint audit undertaken following the resignation of former CEO Ms Baiba Rubesa in September 2018, which highlighted both scheduling and budgeting risks for the cross-border project, saying that the targeted completion date of 2026 remains possible.

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