“Car-building company"(Rustavi, Georgia) and “Kryukov Car Building Works" (Kremenchug, Ukraine) plan to create joint venture for repair and construction of railway carriages.

On 18th of April Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin met the Slovenian Minister of Transport Patrick Vlačič held a meeting.

On 15th of April Representatives of Ukrainian Railways have meet with Skoda Vagonka's officials in order to discuss the possibilities of collaboration in production of rolling stock.

Bombardier Transportation and DB Regio AG have signed a nine-year frame contract – valued at approximately EUR 600 million for 200 BOMBARDIER TRAXX diesel locomotives with game-changing multi-engine propulsion.

According to the press release “Azovmash" was successfully launched in 2011 increasing production volumes.

On 15th April a protocol on release of Russian loan worth 800 million USD was signed by Milutin Mrkonjic, the Serbian Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, and Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin, the President of Russian Railways. “We have made a very important step”, said Mrkonjic. “Our builders will be very busy in the future”, he added.

CEO of the South Caucasian Railways Mr. Shaydulin stated during the press conference that: "the project of construction of railways between Armenia and Iran is on the stage of the search for investors, as those are primarily considered Russia and Iran”.

Moscow City Government adopted a decree “On JSC Moscow Ring Railway" in order to implement the comprehensive investment project of reconstruction and development of small ring of the Moscow Railway.

Lithuania Minister of Transport EligijusMasiulis said that the companies should pay dividends from profit, and that there can be no exceptions, neither for Lithuanian Railways, nor for Klaipedos Nafta, said Masiulis.

The Central Commission for the reform of railway transport of Ukraine was established according to the National Action Plan for 2011 for implementation of economic reforms in period of 2010-2014.

Experimental electric locomotive 2ES10 "Granite" with a train weighing 6300 tons completed trials on the pilot ring of “All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Transport” (Shcherbinka, Moscow Region).

General manager of Zeljeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine (ZFBiH) Nedzad Osmanagic met with a delegation from the Croatian Railways (HZ) and the director of the Port of Ploce Ivana Pavlovic. The meeting involved the cooperation between the companies.

During the first quarter of 2011 Ukrainian Railways transported 106.8 million tons of cargo, what is 11,8% more in relation with the corresponding period of last year.

In accordance with official press release Russian Railways shipped 294.6 million tons in January-March 2011, what is 5.5% more than in the same period of last year.

«Belexpolog» - is a project of a center for consolidation of traffic of goods which are transported from the Asia-Pacific region through the international transit corridor Western China - Kazakhstan - Russia - Belarus - Western Europe.

Russia and Ukraine plan to organize a high-speed passenger traffic on the route Moscow-Kiev with speed up to 160-170 km/h.

During the meeting of representatives of partner countries of the Eastern Partnership on transport policy in Brussels Belarus presented a project “organization of high-speed passenger rail service between Vilnius and Minsk”.

PKP SA confirmed information about plans to issue bonds that appeared in polish media. This way the company hopes to repay the most immediate debts.

Croatian Railways informed that in the middle of April they will finish the reconstruction of the rail bridge in Sava Jakusevac, which has been damaged by flood in March 2009.

The meeting of representatives of partner countries of the Eastern Partnership on transport policy was held in Brussels in the end of March.