On 26 August, Rail Baltic Estonia signed a construction contract for the construction of the mainline of the railway in Harju County.

Rail Baltica, the largest rail infrastructure project in the history of the Baltic States, has been recognized as a strategic geopolitical necessity.

Rail Baltica, the transformative rail infrastructure project linking the Baltic states to the European rail network, continues to work on the implementation of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model to accelerate the project's development and lessen the burden on state budgets.

The State Railway Technical Inspectorate has granted final approval for the design of the Rail Baltica Iecava Infrastructure Maintenance Facility, fulfilling all design conditions required for the three construction permits.

Rail Baltica Estonia has signed a contract with the joint bidders AS TREF Nord and ATEMO OÜ for the construction of the northern outdoor areas of the Rail Baltica Ülemiste international passenger terminal Linda.
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Greenpeace published a study titled “Connection Failed,” which analyzed existing and potential direct rail and air transport connections between major European cities.

On 17 July 2024, the Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS, representing the Ministries of Climate of Estonia, Transport of Latvia, and Transport and Communications of Lithuania, announced that the project has been awarded an additional €1.2 billion in the latest call from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

The public can now familiarise with concrete solutions for the infrastructure of the European railway Rail Baltica in the Panevėžys Region.

On May 21, the Rail Baltica team, European Commission representatives, and international partners from France, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia gathered in Riga to send messages to future generations through a time capsule embedded at the construction site.

The Rail Baltica joint venture RB Rail AS has announced the next progress milestones of the Control-Command and Signalling (CCS) subsystem Design and Build procurement, which is one of the strategic procurements for the project implementation, as the second stage of the procedure has been opened.