The Romanian state-owned rail freight operator CFR Marfa has signed a contract with Complexul Energetic Turceni (CET).

- The debts of the state-owned railway company MAV must start being settled during the current government's term, but the process will probably not be completed during the term – said Tamas Fellegi, the National Development Minister of Hungary.

Two bids were submitted in a tender for financial leasing of 6 EMUs, together with the 3-year maintenance period, for Urban Rapid Railway (SKM) in Warsaw.

On 14 January in St. Petersburg, representatives of Lithuanian Railways met with representatives of Hupac Intermodal SA.

The production of cars of the Polish-Chinese company CNR Cargo Wagon should start by the end of March this year, Money.pl reported referring to Rafal Bieniek, the vice minister of economy.

Just a little bit more than a month after launching the Allegro service between Helsinki and St. Petersburg there are first two victims of the high-speed train.

The Romanian passenger operator CFR Calatori plans significant redundancies this year, the local media report.

A record number of 11 million 463 thousand passengers used Aeroexpress services in 2010. This is an increase of 38% over the 2009 result.

Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania published preliminary transport results for the year 2010.

- I always paid attention to the need of cohesion between infrastructural and rolling-stock projects – Andrzej Massel, the vice minister of infrastructure, told Railway Market – CEE Review.

Under the institutional auspices of the Serbian Ministry of Infrastructure, the First Regional Ministerial Conference „Challenges And Perspectives of the United Railways“ will be held in Belgrade on February 25, 2011.

The freight subsidiary of the state-owned Latvian Railways published its cargo volumes for the year 2010.

The Romanian passenger rail operator CFR Calatori has published on e-licitatie.ro the participation notice for signing a contract on supplying the financial services for allocation of bank credits, Railway Insider informed.

According to the Czech media, by the middle of the next year new trains will be purchased for operations on the line between Cesky Tesin and Frydek Mistek.

The state-owned Czech Railways (CD) will launch three tenders for the modernization of three types of passenger cars, produced at the turn of the 80s and the 90s.

Vladimir Yakunin, the president of Russian Railways (RZD), in his blog offered a complete ban on smoking in all Russian trains.

The Polish government was supposed to purchase 20 modern trains for PKP Intercity before Euro 2012. However nothing came out of these plans.

The regional passenger rail operator Koleje Mazowieckie will obtain 16 Electric Multiple Units Elf from the Polish manufacturer PESA.

Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) published the length of lines, which were electrified by the state-owned company last year.

The state-owned Russian Railways paid more than RUB 1.5m (EUR 37,300) in compensations for delays of two Sapsan high-speed trains.