The African Development Bank has loaned Namibia $196m towards the second phase of its Transport Infrastructure Improvement Project (TIIP). The money accounts for 52% of the total project cost; the…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to lend €992m to Czechia to help it upgrade its railways and cut road freight. The loan, the EIB’s largest to the country,…

China Communications (CCCC) has offered to invest in several infrastructure projects in Vietnam, including the country’s high-speed North-South Railway, news website VNExpress reports. The proposal was made by Bai Yinzhan,…

Work on Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) passed the half-way mark in August, said Datuk Hasbi Habibollah, the country’s deputy transport minister. According to the New Straits Times, he…

US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg expressed support for funding high-speed rail projects at a House Transportation Committee oversight meeting this week.

Chicago is gearing up for a major infrastructure project: the $3.6bn, 5.6-mile overground extension of the Red rail transit line from its current southern terminus at 95th Street/Dan Ryan down to 130th Street near Altgeld Gardens.

Polish rail technology start-up Nevomo this week unveiled its MagRail Booster retrofit technology at the Trako International Railway Fair in Gdansk.

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…

Egypt’s National Railways has announced a plan to modernise the 125km rail corridor that runs along the east bank of the Nile between Cairo, Giza and the city of Beni…

Kenya has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to build a 3,000km standard gauge railway network between its newly completed Lamu Port and Addis Ababa, the East Africannews site reports.   Work…

Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Mokhber officially inaugurated work on a long-planned, 32km railway between the two countries on Saturday (2 September). The line…

A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…

Progress on the 253km high-speed railway between Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima, the first phase of the link between Thailand and China, is expected to be in operation in 2027. The…

France’s Egis has won a four-year contract to modernise the rail system in the southern Irish city of Cork. Working alongside Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), Egis will adapt existing signalling,…

Transport for Tomorrow has pioneered the use of a temporary, modular railway platform surfaced with fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) to help with a station upgrade.

Uganda and Kenya are seeking at least $6bn to restart work on the standard gauge railway (SGR) to connect central Africa to the port of Mombasa. China financed the first…

US politicians are seeking $1.1bn to improve Illinois’ rail infrastructure and upgrade Chicago’s Union Station. Among those calling for the funding are state governor JB Pritzker, US senators Tammy Duckworth…

The former general manager of China State Railway Group yesterday pleaded guilty to taking bribes over a period of 18 years, China Daily reports.  Sheng Guangzu, 74, was on trial…