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14 January 2021, Rīga – Sandor Liive, a senior management executive and entrepreneur, has been appointed as the Chairperson of RB Rail AS Supervisory Board. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of RB Rail AS since November 2020. Sandor Liive has replaced Anrī Leimanis, who will continue to serve in the Supervisory […]

A cooperation agreement was signed today between Kohila municipality and RB Estonia for the design and construction works of the Rail Baltica Kohila stop. Further cooperation agreements will be concluded in 2021 with all the municipalities where Rail Baltica stops will be built. RB Estonia is tasked, according to the agreement, to organise the construction […]

LTG Infra, the company responsible for the implementation of the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania, has launched the second stage of a tender, during which it will select a contractor for the railway bridge over the river Neris near Jonava. This will be the longest railway bridge in the Baltic States, spanning more than 1.5 […]

The international tender for the construction of Rail Baltica station, viaduct and railway at Riga International Airport has ended and the winner has been selected. The construction will be carried out by company consortium B.S.L. Infra, which includes Austrian company Swietelsky AG and Latvian construction companies SIA Binders and AS LNK Industries. The financial offer […]

Spain’s IDOM responsible for the detailed technical design of Rail Baltica section Kaunas-Ramygala will present recommended design proposals in Jonava county on the 21st of December. The section Šėta-Ramygala is 16,5 km long includes 2 railway and 1 road viaducts, 5 animal passages that will ensure that they will be able to safely cross underneath […]

The largest Rail Baltica rolling stock depot in Estonia will be designed by OÜ Reaalprojekt and NORD PROJEKT AS. “By finding a designer of the rolling stock depot, we have now started the designing process of key objects of Rail Baltica in Estonia. The rolling stock depot, which will be built on the border of […]

Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) and  joint venture of the Baltic States RB Rail AS on behalf of the Ministry of Economics and Communication of Estonia, the Ministry of Transport of Latvia and the Ministry of Transport and Communication of Lithuania signed two additional cross-border Grant Agreements on the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) funding […]

A consortium consisting of SIA Forma 2 (Latvia) and Prointec S.A.U. (Spain) has won the open tender for the engineering and construction supervision of Rail Baltica station at the Riga International Airport and related infrastructure. The association has submitted the most economically advantageous tender. Supervision of engineering works will have to be ensured during the […]

At a time when one of the largest road viaducts crossing the Rail Baltica railway in Saustinõmme will soon be completed, Rail Baltic Estonia announced the construction procurements for the next objects. “There is a great interest in the construction of various Rail Baltica facilities,” said Tõnu Grünberg, Chairman of the Board of Rail Baltic […]

Considering the declared state of emergency in Europe and to prevent the spread of the virus COVID-19, RB Rail AS employees in all three Baltic States currently are mostly working remotely with limited access to the office premises.

The largest infrastructure project in the history of the Baltic States –  Rail Baltica – has caught the eye of Lithuanian professionals from all around the world. According to the recruitment consultant Vilija Vitkė, highly qualified professionals working abroad are now considering returning to Lithuania to apply their expertise in developing a project of historical […]

See how the construction of the Riga Central node will change the appearance of the Central station and improve the lives of citizens and visitors of the city.     “Construction company BERERIX has started building works on the southern side of Riga Central Railway Station. The building site is set up to enable continuous […]

Construction of Rail Baltica Central Hub in Riga has begun as expected – in November 2020, while strictly following all restrictive measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. On 23 November 2020, the newly developed building site of the Central Hub in Riga was formally opened by Agnis Driksna, Chairman of the Management Board of […]

20 November 2020, Riga – Marc-Philippe El Beze, an experienced international high-speed railway professional, starts his role as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and member of the Management Board of RB Rail AS. Marc-Philippe El Beze will manage all technical aspects of the global Rail Baltica project in cooperation with national beneficiaries, implementing bodies and key […]

The preliminary design for the Rail Baltica Ülemiste joint terminal “Light Stream“, the winning design by Zaha Hadid Architects and Esplan, has been completed, and the tender for construction work will be announced in 2021. “For the past year, we have been hard at work on the preliminary design of Rail Baltica’s Ülemiste joint terminal, […]