FYR Macedonia lauches tender for rehabilitation of a section of Corridor VIII
Public Enterprise for Railway Infrastructure (‘PERI’) intends using the proceeds of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and […]
Regions
East Africa: Rift Valley Railways obtained funds for acquisition 20 locomotives
East Africa’s Rift Valley Railways, operator of the only rail line linking Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast with Uganda, said it […]
Balfour Beatty awarded £70 million contract for Crossrail’s new Woolwich station
Balfour Beatty announces the award of a £70 million (EUR 87 million) contract to complete and fit-out the new Crossrail […]
Transport for London awarded the contract for new Bank station entrance
Transport for London (TfL) has awarded the contract to fit out the brand new Waterloo & City line station entrance […]
Contactless payment on London Underground
Contactless will be available on London Underground, tram, DLR, London Overground, and National Rail services that accept Oyster from 16 […]
Chicago will invest more than USD 166 million in fleet overhaul
Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) approved September 9 the biggest component of a plan to completely overhaul the agency’s second-oldest rail […]
SBB brought out parking app
Swiss railway operator SBB brought out a car parking application in mid-September, according to inside-it.ch. SBB has been testing an […]
Brazil sees rising iron ore exports to China
Exports of Brazilian iron ore to China in the first eight months of the year were up 10.8% to 111Mt. […]
India: PPP model for building solar panels in 200 stations
India’s railway ministry has decided to set up solar power plants of 8.8 mega watt (MW) capacity at railway stations, […]
Uzbekistan to create its own raw material base for metallurgy until 2020
The project on development of the Tebinbulak titanomagnetite ores field in Karakalpakstan (north-west Uzbekistan) in order to create its own […]