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…

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…

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.

The ERB Rail joint venture officially started work on the €3.7bn, 220km Latvian leg of the Rail Baltica high-speed railway this week. Rail Baltica is an 870km railway linking the…

A team comprising Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), consulting engineer Sweco Finland and Latvia’s Sarma Norde Architects and Alps Landscape Architects have won a competition to design a cruise and ferry…

A team made up of Eiffage, Ferrovial subsidiary Budimex and Rizzani de Eccher has won a civil engineering contract to construct a 230km stretch of the Rail Baltica high-speed line…

South Korea’s Samsung C&T has partnered with Latvian manufacturer Forta Pro to develop factories making prefabricated building parts. Forta Pro has two factories employing 400 people in the cities of…