Macedonia’s Prime Minister, Nikola Gurevski announced that the tender for the construction and reconstruction works of  Beljakovce – Kriva Palanka (33.9 km) railway section will be launched by the end of this year.  Works will include the construction of twelve new bridges and four new tunnels, construction of 33 km main track and 7.5 km station track.This is the second phase of Railway Corridor VIII - Eastern Section Project (88.1 km).
World metro systems are growing rapidly, according to a new Statistics Brief from UITP, with 45 new systems having being built since 2000.
148 cities currently have a metro system, carrying 150 million passengers per day on 540 lines. Two-thirds of the world’s metros are located in Asia and Europe, with Tokyo metro carrying the most passengers annually (3.2 billion) whilst Shanghai has the longest network (more
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Eurostat, the administrative unit of the European Commission responsible for statistics, published the interesting statement in early October this year, which speaks about the share of individual modes of transport in the total cargo transport on the mainland of the European Union. Short and interesting analysis for the period from 2007 to 2012. It is particularly interesting to see where it puts the railways, and how does in
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On 11 November 2014 the European Parliament in Brussels held the last workshop as part of the EU project ACROSSEE. The aim of the workshop was to assemble representatives of the EU Parliament and the European Commission and inform them of the achievements of the project. With its active participation workshop was supported by Croatian MEPs Jozo Rados (HNS) and Ivan Jakovcic (IDS), and representatives of the Association
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