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As preparations for the active construction phase of the Rail Baltica mainline are underway, Eiropas Dzelzceļa līnijas, together with the general contractor ERB Rail, will organize informational days about the mainline construction from December 11 to 13 at the Iecava Cultural Center. During these events, local residents and interested parties will have the opportunity to […]

The “Look at the Future of Mobility 2024” conference, held on 21 November in Riga, brought together leaders from the transport and logistics sectors, policymakers, academics, and students to discuss transformative projects like Rail Baltica and their potential impact on mobility, innovation, and civil-military logistics. With an agenda that highlighted both current achievements and future […]

The recently held Intelligent Rail Summit 2024, organized by ProMedia Group, positioned Rail Baltica at the forefront of discussions on the future of rail transport. Held for the first time in a Baltic country, the conference highlighted the strategic significance of Rail Baltica as a transformative infrastructure project, integrating the Baltic region into the broader […]

One of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects, Rail Baltica, has reached a significant milestone: five consortia – four international and one domestic – have advanced from the first stage of the alliance procurement for Estonia’s section of the main railway line, connecting Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the rest of Europe. This procurement, valued at nearly […]

The Rail Baltica project reached two significant milestones today, on 26 November 2024. The “Friends of Rail Baltica” cooperation group, established in 2016 and chaired by EP Vice-President Roberts Zīle, held its first meeting in the new European Parliament term, emphasizing the project’s strategic importance for European connectivity and security. Concurrently, the Latvian government conceptually […]

LTG Infra, the company implementing LTG Group’s strategic Rail Baltica project, has launched a public tender for construction on the Šėta-Ramygala section (12.1 km), which includes the construction of the railway embankment, engineering structures, and local roads. In October, the company signed a contract for works on the 17.1 km Šėta-Ramygala section. The total length […]

Even though Rail Baltica began as a project with an aim to ​​improve passenger and cargo mobility, due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine it is now transformed into essential strengthening of military mobility becoming a strategic imperative, reported BBC.  While visiting all three of the Baltic countries with public transportation, BBC’s presenter Lisa Louis […]

The recently held Vilnius GreenTech Forum, one of the largest events in the Baltics in the energy, transport, and green economy sectors, brought together policymakers, business leaders, and industry professionals. Among the participants was Marius Narmontas, Chief Operating Officer and Vice-Chairperson of the Management Board at RB Rail AS. Representing Rail Baltica, Narmontas highlighted the […]

Today, the Lithuanian Government approved the infrastructure development plan for the Rail Bartica’s Panevėžys railway node. The Government also agreed to launch procedures for land acquisition for public needs, which is expected to last until the end of 2027. According to the approved engineering infrastructure development plan for the Panevėžys railway node, a Rail Baltica […]

Last week, BIM Forums 2024 brought together professionals to exchange insights and advancements in Building Information Modeling (BIM). Alongside our usual discussions on all things BIM, we delved into the results of the BIM benchmarking survey (BIM skaitīšana 2024), which tracks trends across various industries. These insights spurred me to reflect on Rail Baltica’s own transformation […]

On 7 November 2024, Mme Catherine Trautmann, the European Coordinator for the North Sea-Baltic TEN-T Corridor, undertook a working visit to Riga to discuss the Rail Baltica project implementation scenario in Latvia and the development of the cross-border connection in the first phase of the project. During the meeting with Latvian government ministers Mme Trautmann […]

  A workshop titled “Resilience and Business Continuity,” took place in the Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS to discuss strategies for enhancing resilience against various challenges, including kinetic and cyber threats. The seminar was led by Vitālijs Rakstiņš, a researcher from Riga Stradiņš University. He has played a key role in developing Latvia’s […]