News & Events

On 1 September 2021 Veiko Haavapuu joined the Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS as the Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board. Veiko Haavapuu is an experienced finance expert with a strong track record and over 20 years of professional background working in audit, telecommunications, retail, and transport companies. His most […]

Rail Baltic Estonia signed next construction contracts for the railway crossings, which will be built by GRK Infra AS and AS TREV-2 Grupp. At the beginning of August, the building contracts were signed for Loone ecoduct, Künka road overpass and Tagadi road overpass in Kohila. In the last weeks two new construction contracts have been […]

With the Rail Baltica Global Project building its maturity and to ensure smooth transition to a full-scale construction phase, the Rail Baltica joint venture “RB Rail AS” and the Latvian national implementing body SIA “Eiropas Dzelzceļa Līnijas” (EDZL) is launching a global market survey, aiming to collect feedback from the current and potential contract partners […]

A construction permit has been issued for the planned railway bridge over the Neris River near Jonava. It will be the most complex Rail Baltica engineering facility and the longest railway bridge in the Baltic States.   “We are pleased that the procedures for issuing construction permits have been completed smoothly, and this is another positive step […]

Rail Baltic Estonia signed first two construction agreements of this year for the construction of the three railway crossings. The first crossing of the Rail Baltica line – Saustinõmme overpass, located in Saku – was completed at the beginning of this year. Today, the contracts were signed for the next important objects – the Loone […]

Priit Sauk has been appointed as the new Director of RB Rail AS Estonian Branch. Sauk succeeds Aivar Jaeski and continues in his new role as of 16 July 2021. He joined the company in April 2021 as the Technical Director. Priit Sauk has been working in the leading positions in the construction field for […]

Continuing with the design work for the Rail Baltica main line, RB Rail AS who is the global project’s coordinator, in cooperation with the Latvian National Armed Forces organized an initial investigation of explosive ordnance in the upper layer of the Daugava riverbed in the territory of “Saulkalne – Daugmale”, where Rail Baltica mainline, and […]

Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS has recently announced a two-stage competitive tender for the consolidated multi-year sourcing of more than €200 million worth of railway turnouts (high-speed & conventional) and expansion joints as well as a separate procurement exercise for the delivery of the sleepers with fastening systems and under sleeper pads, amounted […]

The latest financing application submitted by RB Rail AS and the Ministries responsible for transport policies in the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – has been successful. Rail Baltica project has been recommended to receive up to EUR 17,28 million in further financing from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) under the last call for […]

Today, on July 19, the first train from the Netherlands loaded with containers and semi-trailers, arrived at the Kaunas Intermodal Terminal (KIT) by the European standard-gauge railway, completed in 2015. KIT has thus become the so far most north-eastern point of the European railway system, which, after the completion of all works and formalities on […]

To ensure that the general public gets acquainted with the Rail Baltica design proposals for the Pasvalys district, the Spanish engineering company IDOM, that is also responsible for the detailed technical design of the Rail Baltica railway section “Ramygala – Lithuanian/Latvian state border”, presented the design solutions for two sections which are located in Pasvalys […]

RB Rail AS, the central coordinator of the Rail Baltica project, has announced the procurement exercise for the delivery of the sleepers with fastening system and under sleeper pads, and turnouts and rail expansion joints as a separate procurement for the construction of the entire Rail Baltica railway line. We welcome all interested suppliers to […]

Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS has signed a contract, amounted to 194 250 euro, with an international consortium led by a Ramboll and consisting of Gottlieb Paludan Architects, Soini&Horto Architects, Realidea Ltd., Ardenis Consult, featuring a team of renowned Northern European infrastructure development experts and architects to deliver recommendations to Rail Baltica, one of […]

In June 2021, the Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS, for the second consecutive time organized “Rail Baltica Academy”, an online education platform consisting of several sessions and aimed to share railway industry expert’s knowledge about the different aspects of the Rail Baltica project.  The sessions included topics such as Innovation and Sustainability, Environmental […]