The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has signed two agreements worth €1.4bn in an effort to speed up completion of the Rail Baltica project. Of this amount, €1.2bn will be…

Two tenders have been announced for Rail Baltica in Estonia, worth a maximum of €932m. One involves the construction of superstructure for the Ülemiste–Pärnu section of track and substructure for…

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have asked the EU to help them pay for new fortifications along their borders with Russia and its ally, Belarus. The defence ministers of the…

Nordecon, Estonia’s largest construction group, has announced that it has won a €30.5m contract for the third stage of infrastructure work on the Estonian leg of Rail Baltica. The scope…

The planned Rail Baltica high-speed rail corridor connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Poland and the European rail network could end up costing €19bn more than planned, state auditors in the three countries warned on Wednesday.

Work has started on the Ülemiste Passenger Terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, set to be the northern terminus of the Rail Baltica corridor. Designed by Estonia’s Esplan and the UK’s Zaha…

A joint venture between Estonian contractors Järelpinge Inseneribüroo and Verston has been chosen to build a 16km section of the Rail Baltica train line linking the Estonian municipalities of Kohila…

A €45m contract has been awarded to Estonian construction company Merko Ehitus to build foundations and roads for a 28-turbines windfarm located in Lithuania’s western Kelmė district. Merko Ehitus subsidiary…

Estonian architect DAGOpen has won a design competition to create a standardised housing unit for families or small groups in Ukraine. DAGOpen’s“Hata” design is based on a traditional Ukrainian building…

Rail Baltica Estonia has launched a tender for a 7.1km stretch of track between the villages of Hagudi and Loone in the north of the country. The scope of work…