IRAN's minister of transport Mr Abbas Akhoundi and Italy's minister of infrastructure and transport Mr Graziano Delrio have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Italian State Railways (FS) to become a development partner for Iranian Islamic Republic Railways (RAI).
FINLAND's Ministry of Transport and Communications announced on February 1 that planned cuts to public service obligation (PSO) train services, which were scheduled for next month, will be deferred until at least December because of government plans to liberalise the regional and commuter sectors.
DUTCH secretary of state for infrastructure and the environment Mrs Sharon Dijksma joined Netherlands Railways (NS) CEO Mr Roger van Boxtel, ProRail CEO Mr Pier Eringa, and the mayor of The Hague Mr Jozias van Aartsen at The Hague Central on February 1 to mark the completion of the station's reconstruction.
GERMAN open-access operator Locomore moved a step closer to launching its planned Stuttgart - Berlin service on January 27 when it reached its €460,000 crowdfunding target for the project, two days before the deadline for the initiative.
THE board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed to provide Morocco with a $US 112.3m loan, which will be used by Moroccan National Railways to construct a second track on part of the Casablanca - Marrakech line.
THE government of the Austrian province of Styria has given its backing to a €20m project to restore the 2.8km cross-border link between Bad Radkersburg and Gorna Radgona after more than 70 years.
ITALIAN civil engineering company, Condotte, has appointed Pöyry, Finland, to carry out rock and tunnel engineering for construction of a section of the Follo Line in Norway.
FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) has agreed the second phase of a cooperation protocol with Indian Railways (IR) signed in April 2015 for a pilot project to upgrade two stations.
SIEMENS has completed fabrication of the first stainless steel passenger coach shell for All Aboard Florida's Brightline inter-city service at its plant in Sacramento, California.
GERMAN Rail (DB) is one of the world's biggest transport organisations with nearly 297,000 employees (64% of them in Germany) and group turnover of around €40bn in 2015. Yet despite its size and breadth of activities, DB faces an uncertain future - largely driven by changes in its "home" market.