South Caucasus Railway and FPC sign agreement of cooperation
South Caucasus Railway (Armenia) and Russian Federal Passengers Company (FPC) signed an agreement of cooperation in Yerevan on March 4, […]
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EVRAZ starts new type rail wheel deliveries to Turkey
EVRAZ NTMK has announced that following the completion of the production of a batch of wheels for freight railcars, it […]
Indian Railways in talks with Life Insurance Corporation of India on funding agreement
Indian Railways is in talks with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to devise a mechanism to deploy Rs.1 trillion […]
CER & EU Latvian Presidency debate: Transporting goods from Asia to the EU – What role for intermodality?
On 24 February, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and the Latvian Presidency of the EU jointly […]
Iran launches EUR 2.4b high-speed rail project
The construction of a high-speed railway, extending about 400 kilometers from Tehran to Isfahan, started on February 26. The railway […]
India to invest $137 billion in railways
The Indian government presented its annual railway budget for 2015 and said that it will invest $137 billion over the […]
India: Kerala’s important rail projects are stagnating
Important rail projects sanctioned to address Kerala’s underdeveloped railway sector have failed to take off years after they were announced […]
Container train route launched between China and Kazakhstan
On February 26 Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the Kazakh national railway company, launched a regular container train from Lianyungang (China) […]
UIC: IFIs will grant 40% of transport funds to railways
“Worldwide, there is a series of railway infrastructure projects underway, while others are due to be initiated over the next […]
Turkey: new tender for 80 high speed trains to open soon
Transportation, Maritime and Communication Minister Lütfi Elvan announced that the first national high speed train, which was designed by Turkish […]