Both eastern African countries have plans to revamp the Standard Gauge Railway project that currently connects coastal Kenyan Mombasa with Nairobi and Naivasha.
China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has opened a railway wagon assembly plant in the most populated African country, Nigeria.
The government plans to provide €4 billion in funding by 2032 and increase annual aid to the sector to €200 million by 2030. This investment is aimed at modernizing and expanding rail infrastructure to support the growth of rail freight and combined transport in France.
The biggest rail freight carrier in France, Fret SNCF, faces significant changes due to the European Commission’s investigation, which considers the state of EUR 5.3 billion aid provided to the carrier between 2017-2019 illegal.
Pro-Rail Alliance calls for faster electrification of rail network due to wide disparities between federal states.
Despite challenges at the beginning of 2022, rolling highway operator RAlpin recorded a 4% increase compared to the previous year.
A new project, called MehrSpur Zürich–Winterthur, should bring 30% more capacity on this railway line.
The British railway infrastructure company, Network Rail, has unveiled its five-year plan (2024-2029) aimed at enhancing the railway infrastructure in England and Wales. The overall sum exceeds 50 million euros.
In the first quarter of 2023, Combined Transport in Europe experienced a significant decline of 13.96% compared to the same period in the previous year, reports Union Internationale Pour le Transport Combine Rail-Route (UIRR).
The Canadian government-owned passenger rail company VIA Rail Canada Inc. will have a new CEO from 12 June 2023. Mario Péloquin will lead the company.
The German government has approved the purchase of share in operations of a container terminal in the port of Hamburg, amid a political controversy over Chinese investment.
Despite the end of the government's fixed-price programme for firewood, the company will continue to fulfill orders placed during the programme.
Alliance is disappointed with the government's response to rising energy costs and believes that the lack of support has led to a reverse modal shift to the road, threatening the survival of rail companies.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed a new In-Use Locomotive Regulation that will ban locomotives made before 2007 from entering California after 2030. In addition, all locomotives operating in the state after 2035 must be zero-emission.
Two new railway lines are set to be built in the Bratislava region, as the increase in construction in the city and its surroundings has put pressure on residents' mobility.
The share of former European national rail freight carriers, also called incumbents, has, for the first time in history, dropped below 50% of the market.
South Africa is resolving a dispute between state-owned transport company Transnet and China's CRRC over the supply of accelerated locomotives and spare parts. At the same time, CRRC this week delivered a 200-tonne depressed center flat car to Tanzania.
The man who photographed this train now lives in exile
DB chooses Huawei technology to digitise rail network, critics fear could allow Beijing to disrupt railways.
German and Czech transport ministers Volker Wissing and Martin Kupka have agreed to improve the currently inadequate connections between Prague and Munich and Prague and Berlin.