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…

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…

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 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 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…

The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility has awarded an additional €928m in funding to an 870km rail line intended to pull the old Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into…

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…

Spanish consulting engineer Ardanuy Ingeniería has won a contract to design seven regional Rail Baltica stations in Estonia. The €368,000 contract includes work on platforms, overpasses, underpasses, outdoor areas, car…