A team of Italy’s Webuild, Turkish contractor İçtaş and Portugal’s Mota-Engil has won a contract for the 517km-long Lot 1B of the Lobito Corridor Railway Project, connecting the Angolan border…

A section of a high-speed rail planned to connect Istanbul to the Bulgarian border has been completed by a consortium of Italy’s Webuild and Turkey’s Kolin Group for Turkish State…

Five bidders have been shortlisted to build a 14.3km-long high-speed railway linking the Polish cities of Warsaw and Łódź as part of Poland’s Port Polska mega transport project. The winner…

The EU’s European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €630m financing agreement with Romania for the €2.25bn upgrade of the Brașov-Sighișoara railway. The project will upgrade 113km of double-track, electrified…

The City Rail Link (CRL), New Zealand’s first underground railway and the nation’s largest transport infrastructure project, opened to the public on 13th September. The route connects downtown Auckland to…

A joint venture between Skanska USA and rail contractor Stacy Witbeck has won a $2.4bn contract to build 10.7km of light railway in the San Fernando Valley, California. Working for…

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…