Polish state owned infrastructure manager PKP Polish Railway Lines plans to make investments worth more than PLN 50 bn (EUR 12.4 bn) until 2023. Later this year, PKP PLK will launch tenders with a total value of PLN 11 bn (EUR 2.7 bn). The infrastructure manager has already started making
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The Czech Republic (ČR) has joined the Rail Freight Corridor North Sea – Baltic. The Czech Republic lies on the intersection of the important European routes: RFC 5 corridor (Baltic– Adriatic), RFC 7 (Orient/East-Mediterranean), and RFC 9 (Czech-Slovak, CS corridor). ČR and the countries of RFC 8 (BE, NL, DE, PL, LT) have thus made efforts
Kazakhstan intends to invest USD 40 billion in transport projects in by 2020 as part of the project to transform the country into a logistics and transit hub in the Eurasian continent. “By 2020 we plan to implement projects with a total amount of investments around USD 40 billion, aimed at removing all
Romanian state-owned infrastructure manager CFR SA has awarded Alstom Transport – PAS Impex consortium a contract for design and installation works of hot axle box and blocked brake detectors. The contract value is RON 55 million (EUR 12.5 million). The project is financed under the Sectoral Operational Programme “Transport” (SOP-T) 2007 – 2013. The period of works
The Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration (Správa Železniční Dopravní Cesty, SŽDC) has selected Mott MacDonald – Sudop Praha A.S. joint venture (JV) to carry out two studies for a new cross-border railway line that will connect Dresden in Germany with Ústí nad Labem and Litoměřice in the Czech Republic. The new railway will
On the 19th of April, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accompanied by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Transportation Minister Feridun Bilgin and Mayor Kadir Topbaş attended the inaugurating ceremony of Istanbul metro’s Line 6 (Levent-Rumeli Hisarustu). The 3.3 km line has four metro stations and a capacity of 8100 passengers/h per direction. “Now, Istanbul has
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will support with over €15 million the development and installation of the common European Train Control System (ETCS) in Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and The UK. The new system is expected to improve the interoperability, safety, reliability and capacity on European railways. Seven separate projects aim to
As of today, people can travel by train to airport Letiste Leose Janacka Ostrava in Mosnov. The 2.9 km long railway line connecting the airport with the town of Sedlnice is linked to the main railway corridor between Ostrava and Prague and Ostrava and Brno. This is the first new railway line built in the Czech
Works for equipping Hegyeshalom – Rajka- border railway section with ETCS (European Train Control System) have been launched. The 13 km long railway section, part of Hungary’s railway line No. I (Budapest-Hegyeshalom- Rajka), is managed by the Austrian-Hungarian infrastructure manager Gysev. Thales Rail Signalling Solutions Kft., a Thales Austria GmbH., and Dunántúli Távközlési és Biztosítóberendezési