Romania’s state highway company has selected a team of the local subsidiary of France’s Alstom and Greek conglomerate GEK Terna as contractor for two major railway rehabilitation projects in south…

A consortium of Italy’s Webuild and Vianini Lavori has won a €776m design and build contract for the T1 section of the Rome Metro, which will connect Clodio/Mazzini to Farnesina…

A Webuild-led consortium involving India’s Larsen & Toubro, Saudi Arabia’s NESMA and France’s Alstom has won a contract to extend Riyadh Metro’s Red Line by 8.4km for the client, the…

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has allocated $101m for 25 rail and port upgrades. The Long Island Rail Road will get $10m to upgrade the Fresh Pond Yard and…

The EU is allocating €175.6m to Montenegro to help it rebuild the 39km-long Bar to Golubovci railway line in the south of the country. The upgrade – costing €230.8m in…

A $4.7bn financing package drawn largely from China has been announced for the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, Kyrgyzstan state media reports. The railway will be developed by a joint venture set up…

Saudi Arabia threatened to turn Qatar into an island in 2018. Now, they’re building a high-speed railway. At the start of the decade, construction firms eyeing work in the Gulf…

Canada used to be the only G7 country without a dedicated pathway to a rail engineering degree, but with an explosion in rail transit mega projects now underway, that has…

Budimex, the Polish subsidiary of Spain’s Ferrovial, has announced the opening of Warsaw West railway station, Poland’s busiest, after a project spanning five years. It can now handle up to…

Ireland’s national rail operator Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) has appointed Mott MacDonald to lead its “Connect” intercity rail improvement programme. Funded by the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility and Ireland’s National…

The European Commission has unveiled an ambitious plan to transform rail travel across the European Union, promising to halve journey times on major routes and establish high-speed rail as the…

The Polish megaproject Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) has launched a tender for the design and construction of a railway station, tunnel and platform hall underneath the country’s new international airport,…

Mota-Engil has locked in over €1bn in new rail contracts in Mexico, cementing its position as one of Latin America’s top infrastructure players and pushing its total Mexican portfolio close…

Construction has begun on the $3.5bn AirTrain monorail system at New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport, undertaken on behalf of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The…

Saudi Arabia’s first sea-to-sea rail corridor is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the Middle East. Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia began building its long-awaited $7bn “Landbridge” railway, which…

The EU’s European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Costa Rica $250m for the country’s first electric railway, a 51km commuter line connecting the capital San José to the district of…

French engineer Systra has acquired Spanish transport company Ardanuy Ingeniería for an undisclosed sum. The deal could help Systra move into Spanish, Portuguese and Hispanic American rail infrastructure markets. Ardanuy…

The “MPA Delivery Partners” joint venture of Mace, Parsons, and Arcadis has won a $665m, 4.5-year contract extension to keep delivering the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York. The…