The government of Iraq has announced that designs for the $2.5bn Baghdad Metro have been completed, agency Iraqi News reports. According to Nasser Al Asadi, the prime minister’s adviser on…

Mongolia yesterday began its $1.3bn project to build a metro in Ulaanbaatar by launching a tender for consulting services, United News of India reports. The tender closes on 18 March.…

Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have picked Italian contractor Webuild and Spain’s FCC to build a portion of the Ontario Line, a mass transit system under construction in Toronto. The two…

Hanoi’s municipal transport department has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the China Pacific Construction Group (CPCG) and the Vietnam Construction Import–Export Corporation on Thursday. According to Vietnamese website The Investor, the…

Skanska has won a $146m contract from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to replace 21 subway escalators throughout the city. The design-build project also sees the company upgrading escalator machine…

Six consortiums are in the running to design and build Dubai Metro’s $4.9bn Blue Line, business website Zawya reports. Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) put out a request for…

Mongolia will start building a metro line in its capital Ulaanbaatar next year, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. A senior Mongolian official said the aim was to reduce congestion…

Sweco with Spanish partner TYPSA have won a $23.5m contract to provide site supervision, works coordination, and expert support services for a new 11.5km metro line in Stockholm. The new…

A consortium made up of Portugal’s Alberto Couto Alves and two Spanish contractors, FCC Construcción and Contratas y Ventas, has landed a €380m tender to build the 6.4km Ruby line…

The Egyptian Ministry of Transport has chosen a joint venture of French consulting engineers Egis and Setec to work on the design of the second phase of Cairo Metro Line…

Four consortiums, three containing Chinese firms, are competing to win work on the Bogotá metro’s second line. Altogether, there is about $3.6bn of work on offer, covering construction, operation, and…

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia has pledged to fix the Greater Jakarta Light Rail Transit line after technical issues came to light following its inauguration on Monday 28 August. Local…

UK-headquartered Turner & Townsend will lead a team of WSP, Mace and PwC in delivering Ireland’s first metro in Dublin.

Indian construction giant Larson & Toubro (L&T) has won a contract to design and build part of the new Line 3 in Kolkata’s metro system. Also called the Purple Line,…

A consortium of Ferrovial, Sacyr, Copisa, and Copcisa has won a €300m contract to extend the Llobregat-Anoia line of Barcelona’s FGC commuter rail system. They are tasked with building a…

San Babila and Tricolore Stations have opened to the public on Milan’s M4 metro Line, bringing the total number of stations on the line to eight and allowing for passengers…

Work has begun on a huge metro station in Rome that is set to become one of the city’s main transport hubs. Venezia Station is being built on Line C…

Copenhagen’s metro operator Metroselskabet has appointed a joint venture of Cowi and Arup to provide design, environmental impact assessment and utility relocations for the planned new M5 low-carbon metro line.…