Latvia to allocate 175 million euros for Rail Baltica in 2024
Latvia’s Ministry of Transport will allocate around 175 million euros to Rail Baltica in 2024. Of this amount, 115 million euros are secured through EU funding. The focus…
Moldova granted EU support for reconstructing critical railway lines
Moldovan Railways are ready to kickstart a line reconstruction project worth 71 million euros. It concerns the reconstruction of the Balti-Valcinet-Ungheni and Chisinau-Cainari railway sections, both important for…
‘Geopolitical necessity’ Rail Baltica receives more EU funding
Rail Baltica has been awarded 928 million euros from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), a European funding instrument. Combined with national co-financing from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the…
Analysis
77 percent of CEF financing in first call for TEN-T goes to rail
In the first round of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), 77,7 percent will go to railway projects, an analysis by RailTech.com shows.…
These ETCS projects are selected to receive European subsidy
The European Commission has selected 135 transport infrastructure projects to receive subsidies from CEF transport, an EU funding instrument with a budget of 5,4 billion euros for this…
Romania to study first high-speed railway and revamp rail infrastructure
Making use of the European funds to recover after the pandemic, Romania aims to improve rail infrastructure in order to eliminate speed bottlenecks. It will also launch a…
Railway infrastructure benefits from EU Military Mobility fund
To improve infrastructure for military and civilian purposes, the EU has selected 22 projects and grants 339 million euros from the Military Mobility fund in the first round,…
EU to provide €80 million to improve rail infrastructure in Hungary
The European Commission has approved an investment of more than €80 million from the Cohesion Fund to improve rail links for freight and passenger transport in the northern…
1.4 billion of CEF fund to Rail Baltica
A total of 1.56 billion euros of the transport budget of the new Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) 2.0 for the period 2021-2027 will finance rail projects between cohesion…
Third line of Sofia Metro opened
The third metro line was put into operation in Sofia. It crosses the Bulgarian capital from northeast to southwest providing fast and reliable communication between the city centre…
Latvia cancels electrification of railways
Latvian national railway company Latvijas Dzelzceļš (LDz) has cancelled its planned and ongoing projects to electrify the country’s railway network valued at 441 million euros. At the same…
EU invests more than 600 million euros in Polish rail network
The European Commission adopted three major Cohesion Policy projects which will make it possible to invest 604 million euros in modernising the Polish rail network. Over 487 million…
EU to allocate 318 million Euros for railway electrification in Latvia
The European Commission has approved the allocation of 318.5 million Euros from the Cohesion Fund to improve the Latvian rail infrastructure. The country’s rail operator Latvijas Dzelzceļš (LDz)…
German railway companies funded for energy saving investments
Germany will receive EU funding for a scheme to support railway companies that invest in energy efficiency technologies. Companies providing electrically powered rail transport services may be compensated…