State owned Lithuanian Railways have carried 8% more cargo than in the same month last year.

Metrorex has selected the consortium consisting of Astaldi (Italy), FCC (Spain), Delta ACM and AB Construct (Romania) to build the underground Line 5.

By 2015 Croatian HZ Infrastruktura is planning to announce tenders for the amount of EUR 110m.

According to Interfax information Russian Railways and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) are planning to create a nuclear powered train.

The Council of Ministers of Turkey made a decision in June 2010 to transfer responsibility for constructing urban railways to the Ministry of Transport, but the project has been finalized recently.

Head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin has informed public opinion that the company is preparing extended loyalty program for its customers.

Between 23-25 of March a conference concerning container transport from Asia in Prague (Czech Republic) will take place. The event is organized by JERID company and will be one of the most important meetings concerning rail freight in 2011.

Siemens is very close to finalizing the agreement with Deutsche Bahn (DB) for construction of new generation long-distance trains.

On 16 February 2011, the proposed acquisition of Arriva Deutschland by Ferrovie dello Stato and Cube Transport was accepted by European Commission, a subsidiary of Cube Infrastructure Fund, an investment fund specialised in infrastructure and public services.

Romanian prime minister asked the transport minister to reassess the document, saying that an income cost budget cannot be elaborated with losses. He said that it should be at least estimated at zero profit.

According to the State Statistics Committee, rail cargo sector in Ukraine noted a rise of 22.9% in January 2011, comparing to the same period in 2010.

Romanian Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure signed on February 16, 2011 an order to form a group, which will be monitoring works on Bucharest – Constanta railway line.

Vladimir Yakunin revealed new details concerning project of building gauge rail line trough Slovakia.

Polish company ZNLE is preparing new multisystem locomotive for passenger and freight traffic. New unit will be called E4ACU Elephant.

Tender for leasing of 6 electric multiple units has been won by Newag company.

The workers of Serbian Railways ended striking on 16 February, after negotiations with representatives of the entity government in Doboj.

According to Vladimir Vladimirov, the chairman of BDZ Holding Board of Directors, Bulgarian rolling stock could be overhauled in 3-4 years.

Ukrainian railways will take new credits: from VTB Bank (Russia) and from the Sberbank (Russia).

According to Ukrzaliznytsya, the company started promoting railways as a good means of transport for tourists.

Prague councilor Tomas Hudecek has challenged CZK 20 billion (EUR 5.7m) worth order for trams which is supposed to be realized by Skoda.