An Italian consortium led by Webuild has won a €1.3bn contract to build a 30km stretch of the Palermo-to-Catania rail link in Sicily. The contract was awarded by state rail…

The government of Argentina has been holding talks with a Chinese company to invest in the country’s rail network. Transport minister Diego Giuliano held talks last week with the China…

Construction has begun on a rail service between Tokyo Station and Haneda International Airport with connections to the city’s Utsunomiya, Takasaki and Joban Lines. A press release from the East…

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi held a virtual meeting today to sign an agreement to finance, design and build a rail-based transport corridor between the…

Webuild and joint-venture partner Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company (Sajco) have signed a €1.4bn contract to design and build 57km of a high-speed railway serving the futuristic commercial and residential…

Data from China Railways, the country’s national rail operator, shows that fixed-asset investment in the first four months of the year was $24bn, a 6.3% rise on the same period…

Webuild and Ghella have won a contract worth €1.2bn to build a 27km section of the new railway from Palermo to Catania in Sicily. Lot 4A between Caltanissetta Xirbi and…

A 60/40 joint venture between Spanish contractors Acciona and Azvi has landed a €130m contract to build an 18km high-speed rail link as part of the Murcia-to-Cartagena railway in Spain.…

A joint venture of the Netherlands’ Arcadis and American civil engineer Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) has won a $700m contract from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to carry out more…

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) will help fund a 300km rail network for Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Africa’s second most populous city after…

French infrastructure company NGE has signed a contract to help build a 330km high-speed railway in Egypt.

French engineer Eiffage has landed a €190m contract to connect the Mont Cenis base tunnel, the longest on the forthcoming Lyon–Turin rail line, with the existing rail network.

Cambodia is seeking investors for a $4bn medium-speed railway that will run between Phnom Penh and the Thai border, Global Times reports. A feasibility study into a 382km line is…

Webuild and consortium partners have won a €934m contract from Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) for a rail bypass at Lot 3A of a project in Trento, Italy. Webuild, which has…

The first phase of a light rail project in Lagos, Nigeria was commissioned this week, China Daily reports. Speaking at a banquet held before the inauguration ceremony, Nigerian president Muhammadu…

Some $60m is required to repair 23 of 40 trains operating on Addis Ababa’s Chinese-built light rail system, a city transport official told Ethiopian news site The Reporter. Mitku Asmare,…

Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan have agreed to establish a rail link through their countries giving Iran a direct rail connection to northern Europe, the Mehr news agency reports. Iran’s deputy…

Uganda has cancelled a deal with a Chinese contractor to build a $2.3bn railway after Beijing decided not to fund the scheme, Bloomberg reports. Perez Wamburu, Uganda’s project coordinator, told…