The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan of $878m for a 230km railway line in Algeria running from Ghardaïa to El Menia in the central north of the…

19 companies including six consortia have submitted bids to build a 14.3km section of high-speed railway linking Warsaw and Łódź as part of Poland’s Port Polska project. It will overhaul…

Austria’s Strabag has announced plans to acquire all shares of Romanian rail company Bawi Construction for an undisclosed sum to strengthen its position in the European rail infrastructure market. Strabag…

The local subsidiaries of Spain’s OHLA Group and Egypt’s Hassan Allam Holding have won a contract from the state-run Saudi Railway Company to build a 22.7km single-track freight railway in…

A US consortium of Kiewit, Stacy Witbeck and Herzog has won a contract to install the track, catenary system and communications infrastructure on a 192km stretch of guideway under construction…

The World Bank is providing $2bn in funding for the Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project (INRAIL) project, a 127-km railway bypassing Istanbul metropolitan area and crossing over the Bosphorus from…

A report last month laid bare the extent to which the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) – a planned multimodal network stretching from Norway’s northern tip to southern Spain in the…

An Italian team of Pizzarotti and Webuild say excavation at the first tunnel for the Messina-to-Catania Railway, at Forza D’Agrò, has been completed. Tunnel boring machine “Alessia,” pictured, excavated 2.5km…

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…