In June 2010, the Polish rail freight operator PKP Cargo carried 9.95 million tons of freight.

Russian Railways (RZD) invested RUB 4.9 billion (EUR 124m) in the development of Tuapse – Adler railway line in the first half of this year.

Two French companies, Egis and Alstom will be responsible for delivery of a design and master plan for metro in the capital city of Serbia.

As “Railway Market – CEE Review” learned, there were no bids submitted for purchase of sleepers treatment plant in Pludry (Nasycalnia Podkladow Sp. z o.o.).

Bombardier Transportation informed, that its Chinese joint venture – Bombardier Sifang Transportation Ltd. received an order for additional 40 high-speed trains CRH1.

On the 16th of July, Milovan Markovic, the general director of the Serbian Railways, and Milos Simonovic, the mayor of Nis, signed an agreement on cooperation in the area of railway transport and infrastructure.

In the first half of 2010, Russian Railways (RZD) invested over RUB 1.9 billion (EUR 48m) in construction of a railway line from Adler to Sochi international airport.

On the 8th of July, Latvian Railways (LDz) completed the modernization of train control system on the route between Slampe and Livberze.

Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) announced its results for the first half of this year.

On the 12th of July, VTG, the wagon hire and rail logistics company, signed contracts for the purchase of 1,100 grain silo wagons from Ermewa Ferroviaire SAS and for the purchase of 75% stake in TMF SA.

Rolling-stock repair plant ZNTK Minsk Mazowiecki will deliver three modernized Electric Multiple Units EN57 to the Lodzkie province.

The Polish state-owned railway infrastructure manager PKP PLK chose the offer of the Czech company OHL ZS a.s. from Brno in a tender for reconstruction of a railway line between Gliwice Labedy and Pyskowice.

DB Regio, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, received another 13-year contract to operate Warnow-Netz regional services.

On the 15th of July, at Russian-German intergovernmental consultations in Yekaterinburg, in the presence of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and German chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin signed a range of documents with Siemens CEO Peter Loscher.

Pavel Bozhanov, the head of the strategic development, coordination and investing in transport systems of the Belarus Ministry for Transport and Communications, announced during a press conference, that tariffs on transportation of container cargo will not be increased in the near future.

Apart from the Chinese, who recently signed a cooperation agreement with Polish state-owned rail freight carrier PKP Cargo, also Indians want to start production of wagons on the European market.

The Russian rail freight operator Freight One informed, that in the first half of the year it managed to increase the aluminum shipments from Krasnoyarsk and Sayanogorsk smelters .

Koleje Dolnoslaskie, the rail passenger operator of Lower Silesian province, announced its annual report for the year 2009.

On the 14th of July, the Russian steel group Mechel announced financial results for the first quarter of the year.

The former president of CD Cargo, Josef Bazala, accused Petr Zaluda, the head of the Czech Railways, of a deliberate media campaign against him.