Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi held a virtual meeting today to sign an agreement to finance, design and build a rail-based transport corridor between the…

Webuild and joint-venture partner Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company (Sajco) have signed a €1.4bn contract to design and build 57km of a high-speed railway serving the futuristic commercial and residential…

Data from China Railways, the country’s national rail operator, shows that fixed-asset investment in the first four months of the year was $24bn, a 6.3% rise on the same period…

Webuild and Ghella have won a contract worth €1.2bn to build a 27km section of the new railway from Palermo to Catania in Sicily. Lot 4A between Caltanissetta Xirbi and…

A 60/40 joint venture between Spanish contractors Acciona and Azvi has landed a €130m contract to build an 18km high-speed rail link as part of the Murcia-to-Cartagena railway in Spain.…

A joint venture of the Netherlands’ Arcadis and American civil engineer Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) has won a $700m contract from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to carry out more…

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) will help fund a 300km rail network for Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Africa’s second most populous city after…

French infrastructure company NGE has signed a contract to help build a 330km high-speed railway in Egypt.

French engineer Eiffage has landed a €190m contract to connect the Mont Cenis base tunnel, the longest on the forthcoming Lyon–Turin rail line, with the existing rail network.

Cambodia is seeking investors for a $4bn medium-speed railway that will run between Phnom Penh and the Thai border, Global Times reports. A feasibility study into a 382km line is…

Webuild and consortium partners have won a €934m contract from Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) for a rail bypass at Lot 3A of a project in Trento, Italy. Webuild, which has…

The first phase of a light rail project in Lagos, Nigeria was commissioned this week, China Daily reports. Speaking at a banquet held before the inauguration ceremony, Nigerian president Muhammadu…

Some $60m is required to repair 23 of 40 trains operating on Addis Ababa’s Chinese-built light rail system, a city transport official told Ethiopian news site The Reporter. Mitku Asmare,…

Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan have agreed to establish a rail link through their countries giving Iran a direct rail connection to northern Europe, the Mehr news agency reports. Iran’s deputy…

Uganda has cancelled a deal with a Chinese contractor to build a $2.3bn railway after Beijing decided not to fund the scheme, Bloomberg reports. Perez Wamburu, Uganda’s project coordinator, told…

An entry from Dutch architect UNStudio, Spain’s b720 Arquitectura and Spanish engineer Esteyco has won a competition to remodel Madrid’s Chamartín station, the city’s second-largest rail hub. A 16-member jury…

Brightline West, the company building a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, is planning to begin work on its line next year, according to the Las Vegas…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend Uganda $301m to upgrade the Kampala–Malaba Metre Gauge Railway (MGR) to link the landlocked country to Kenya and its port of Mombasa. AfDB…