Line 4 of the Santiago Chile LRT was successfully inaugurated on 30th November 2005, in the presence of the Chilean President, Ricardo Lagos, the Minister of Public works, Rodrigo Estévez, and other officials.

H.E Dr. Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al Assaf, the Minister of Finance and National Economy, Head of PIF Board of Directors signed a supervision agreement for the execution of the North–South Railway project with Louis Berger Group Inc. of America, Systra, Canarail and Saudi Consolidated Engineering Co., (Khatib & Alami) of Saudi Arabia.

The Chinese Ministry of Railways has awarded the the review of the design and the supervision of work on the future Beijing-Tianjin rail link to a consortium comprising CARS (Chinese Academy of Railways) and SYSTRA. The Project was officially launched on July 1, 2005.

On 20th October 2005, after calls for tender in two lots, STIF awarded SYSTRA the contract for construction of lot 1.

A subsidiary, SYSTRA MOROCCO, has just been created to carry out various works management contracts with the ONCF (National Rail Office), and to provide assistance to the owner of the Rabat tramway.

The first international transport fair, organised in Bogota on 8th and 9th November by Transmilenio S.A., will provide the opportunity for SYSTRA to present its new Bus RT software.

After completion of the preliminary studies (30% design), the preparation and the follow-up of the calls for tender for the construction of the Dubai Metro, SYSTRA, in a joint venture with Parsons (SYSTRA : 55% - Parsons : 45 %), has now been awarded the contract for inspection of the civil engineering and systems studies, for project management, supervision of the works tests and follow up of the guarantee.

Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the owner and manager of the French rail network, plans to replace the existing analog radiocommunications network with a new digital network which offers compatibility with other European networks and uses the GSM-R standard.

Following an initial contract won in 2004 to carry out a feasibility study for a pilot tramway line in the Vietnamese capital, in April 2005 SYSTRA was selected by the People’s Committee of Hanoi and the French authorities to conduct further investigations into certain aspects of the 2004 study. The aim of this work is to enable the launch of a project which can be implemented by 2010, the date of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Hanoi city.

At the start of 2005, SYSTRA launched a project to upgrade the signalling on the east-west corridor of the Latvian railway network. The contract was signed with Latvian Railways (LDZ) in November 2003, but the process of selecting the contractors to carry out the work took longer than planned.

For 2004, the SYSTRA group registered a net result of Euros 3.5 millions, up 438 per cent in 2003, with a turnover of Euros 177.4 millions.

As part of the tender organised by the Lyon-Turin Rail Authority (Lyon-Turin Ferroviaire) relating to the technical studies for the Lyon-Turin project, lot B3 has been awarded to a consortium headed by SNCF and composed of SYSTRA, Italfer and Tractebel.

The Ministry of Communications and Transport for Mexico (SCT) has appointed SYSTRA to assist it in drawing up the terms of tender for the turnkey project to build a high-speed line between Mexico City and Guadalajara. The tender is due to be launched in mid 2005.

SYSTRA, at the head of a consortium which also includes Scott Wilson, has signed a contract on March 15, 2005, funded by the EBRD and aimed at strengthening the institutional capacity of Ukraine Railways (UZ).

Following a call for tenders, and subject to the approval of the administrative documents, the consortium which is led by SYSTRA and also includes Technital, Lombardi Italy, Ineco and le cabinet d’architecture Dominique Perrault, was awarded the preliminary study for the first phase of Palermo automatic metro.

The Dubailand project caps several tourist and leisure projects (ski runs, theme parks, sports centres, hotels) to be built in a currently undeveloped 200 sq. km desert area in Dubai.

SYSTRA has won a contract for the project management of the first 2 sections (10 km in total) of the latest Lyons tramway line.

On 30 November 2004, following a call for tender, SYSTRA won a contract with the Ministry of Chinese Railways to provide services for the proposed cable stay Tianxingzhou bridge project.