A joint venture of Vinci subsidiary Seymour Whyte and John Holland, a subsidiary of China Communications Construction, has won a €432m (A$695m) contract to upgrade an approximately 42km-long section of…

Spanish technology and engineering consultant Ayesa has won a contract to provide detailed design for the mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems for new metros being built in the Indian cities…

After nine years of striving, the government of Uganda yesterday signed a contract with Turkish contractor Yapı Merkezi to build the first section of the country’s standard gauge railway, New…

Shandong High-Speed Group (SDHS) has been picked to build a railway station complex in the centre of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The agreement, worth €138m, was signed on Saturday…

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…

The governments of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to begin work on an $8bn railway to China next month, confirming a target set back in March, website BNE News reports.…

The West African country of Gabon has signed a contract with the operator of its only railway to begin the second phase of its modernisation. The deal was agreed by…

Poland’s national rail operator PKP has launched three rail infrastructure tenders totalling €1.4bn, specialist website Railway Pro reports. The tenders will make upgrades in the north and south of the…

Etihad Rail has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan to build a 360km freight railway worth $2.3bn. The line will connect Jordan’s phosphate and potash mines in Al-Shidiya and…

China Railway Number 4 Engineering Group (CREC 4) has been chosen to carry out civil engineering works on Morocco’s high-speed rail line between the port of Kenitra, 30km north of…

Hong Kong’s Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) yesterday charged a manager with China Railways 15th Bureau (CR15) with accepting a US$250,000 bribe from a subcontractor. Xu Wenju, 40, deputy general…

China, Tanzania, and Zambia have signed a memorandum of understanding to rehabilitate a 1,860km rail line between Tanzania and Zambia, the Xinhua news agency reports.   The $1bn scheme was…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and publicly-owned Spanish infrastructure group Adif Alta Velocidad have agreed to loan €430m towards a 182km high-speed rail line in Spain’s Basque Province. The double-track…

US contractor Tutor Perini has won a $1.66bn contract to design and build six rail stations and 4.8km of an elevated railway in Honolulu, Hawaii. It will be the third…

A consortium led by France’s Egis with Systra and Morocco’s Novec will project manage the infrastructure for a 430km high-speed railway in Morocco between Kenitra and Marrakech. Morocco wants it…

Skanska has signed a €48m contract with the Czech Republic’s railway administration to modernise the Chrastava and Hrádek nad Nisou railway stations in north Bohemia. The project will allow trains…

A flagship project of President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is accelerating this summer, a senior project leader tells GCR. Amtrak’s $6bn programme to…

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has shut down one of the country’s main rail corridors for a planned, €1.3bn “fundamental overhaul” to improve trains’ punctuality and capacity. The unprecedented…