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15 Feb 24
New York plans freight shift to achieve net zero
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15 Dec 21
The auditor general of New South Wales in Australia has said she will not sign off on the state’s 2020-21 financial report while “significant accounting issues” relating to a state-owned company...
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25 Nov 20
The European Investment bank has approved an €890m loan towards the development of a high-speed rail line from Madrid to the Portuguese border.
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18 Aug 20
A $1bn loan will help India build a modern high-speed rail system around its capital city, the Asian Development Bank has said after it approved the financing deal.
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17 Jan 20
Vietnam must develop quality infrastructure if it wants to expand its economy, the World Bank has said.
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25 Oct 19
Improving people’s access to transport in rural areas would connect billions more to education, healthcare and jobs, the World Bank has claimed.
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25 Jun 19
Russia has agreed with a clutch of leading investors, port operators and mining corporations to jointly develop the ambitious $11bn Northern Sea Route.
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28 May 19
The Asian Development Bank is embarking on its largest ever project to finance infrastructure by funding a key railway line in the Philippines.
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30 Apr 19
Auditors are to investigate whether European Union countries are taking effective action to tackle transportation headaches in major cities.
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14 Dec 18
The Portuguese government has approved a €500m plan to expand the metro systems in the cities of Lisbon and Porto, which is set to start next year.
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12 Sep 18
Asia and the Pacific will need $8.4 trillion to fill the transport financing gap by 2030, the head of the region’s development bank has warned.
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3 Sep 18
Singapore has agreed to the Malaysian government’s request to postpone the development of a high-speed rail service by two years to allow the latter’s finances to improve.
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28 Jun 18
Estonians will soon benefit from free public transport after the government agreed to give regional transport centres additional funding, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has...
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11 Apr 18
The African Development Bank is to prepare an aviation strategy to set out how the new Single African Air Transport Market can help to drive growth.
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28 Feb 18
The European Commission has approved a €70m public support scheme for electric buses and infrastructure in Germany.
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24 Aug 17
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $400m loan to support renovation and electrification work of an urban railway in Argentina.
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10 Feb 17
African cities must become more global if they are to fulfil their growth potential, the World Bank has said.
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8 Sep 16
A plan to introduce surcharges on three of India’s most popular train routes from Friday has sparked uproar on social media.
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6 Sep 16
The impact of European Union support proffered to Montenegro to help it work towards joining the bloc has been muted due to a lack of commitment to reform by the country’s government, the European...
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25 Jul 16
The European Commission has ordered Spain to recover illegal state aid it granted to a state-owned railway operator for the construction of a high speed train testing centre.
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21 Jul 16
The European Commission’s lax supervision over the biofuels used by member states risks undermining the European Union’s 2020 targets on renewable transport energy, the European Court of Auditors has...
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24 Jun 16
Directors of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have today approved financing for the organisation’s first four projects, worth half a billion US dollars in total.
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10 Jun 16
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has secured its first co-financing deal with the Asian Development Bank.
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2 Jun 16
Government representatives described their experiences of managing rapidly growing cities in Asia and Africa at an event organised by the London School of Economics’ International Growth Centre...
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1 Jun 16
India’s economy grew by 7.6% over the past year, retaining the country’s place as the fastest-growing major economy in the world, according to government data.