POMERANIAN Metropolitan Railway (PKM) has awarded Pesa Bydgoszcz a €27.5m contract to supply three two-car and seven three-car DMUs for the 17km line linking Gdansk and Gdynia with Lech Walesa Airport, which is due to open next year.

THE European Investment Bank has granted a €268m loan to Poland's infrastructure manager, PKP PLK, to rehabilitate a 58km section of the 78km main line linking Katowice with Kraków.

MPK Lodz has issued an international invitation to tender for a contract to supply 22 low-floor LRVs for use on the Polish city's 120km metre-gauge tram network.

The Baltic States are seeking to end their isolation from the European railway network with a new standard-gauge line from Tallinn to Warsaw, but governments have struggled to reach a consensus on the region's biggest-ever infrastructure project. Keith Barrow reports from Brussels and Vilnius on the quest to find common ground on Rail Baltica.

POLISH State Railways (PKP) long-distance subsidiary PKP Intercity has awarded Pesa, Poland, a Zlotys 131.2m ($US 43.4m) contract to supply 10 four-axle 140km/h diesel-electric locomotives.

POLISH long-distance operator PKP Intercity has selected Pesa, Poland to supply and maintain 20 160km/h emus in a deal worth Zlotys 1.32bn ($US 430m).

WARSAW Tramways signed a Zlotys 167.9m ($US 54.8m) contract with Pesa, Poland on January 15 for 30 type 134N Jazz low-floor LRVs, which will be used on lower-density routes in the city.

EUROPEAN transport commissioner Mr Siim Kallas has called on the Baltic states to work together to make the standard-gauge Rail Baltic link between Estonia and Poland a reality, amid concerns that extra conditions being imposed by the Lithuanian government could delay the project.

THE European Investment Bank has agreed to lend Poland's largest railfreight operator PKP Cargo €47m to help finance the modernisation of its locomotive and wagon fleets.