Rail Baltica to set out opportunities for contractors on €5.8bn project

Digital render of a Rail Baltica train (Image: Rail Baltica)

The webinar hosted by the Rail Baltica project delivery teams will take place on 9 May.

Contractors and suppliers will hear from Mārtiņš Blaus, head of procurement, RB Rail and Kristjan Piirsalu, director of contracting strategy about Rail Baltica procurements this year and how to get ready for large-scale construction.

The event will take place in English, with synchronized translations available in the national Baltic languages – Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.

Rail Baltica has already started awarding major packages of work for the project, which involves integrating the Baltic states into the European rail network along an 830km line running from Helsinki in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia in the north, to Warsaw in Poland further south.

Late last year, a consortium of three contractors called ERB Rail – Eiffage, Budimex and Rizzani de Eccher – have won a €3.7bn contract for the civil engineering and track-laying works on a 230km section of the line.

It will be the first large-scale mainline standard gauge railway in the region, with most of the legacy rail networks in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania running on Russian gauge lines.

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