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title: SYSTRA WINS AN ENGINEERING CONTRACT FOR THE EUROPEAN RAIL BALTICA PROJECT
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# SYSTRA WINS AN ENGINEERING CONTRACT FOR THE EUROPEAN RAIL BALTICA PROJECT

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On 18 January 2022, an agreement was signed between the Rail Baltica joint
venture, the global project coordinator RB Rail AS and an international
consortium for the Control-Command and Signalling engineering and works
supervision for Rail Baltica.

The partnership team consisting of SYSTRA, leader of the consortium, Italferr
(Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group) and Egis has been awarded Rail Baltica’s
contract to provide engineering and project management services for preparation,
procurement and supervision of Rail Baltica Control-Command and Signalling
subsystem deployment that include the European Rail Traffic Management System
(ERTMS) Level 2, interlocking, traffic management, information, and
communication technologies (ICT), ancillary, station, and non-traction power
supply subsystems. The contract covers the entire construction period till the
end of the defect notification period.

Rail Baltica is a joint project of three EU Member States – Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania – and concerns the development of a fast conventional double-track
1435mm electrified gauge and ERTMS equipped railway line with an overall length
of 870km on the route from Tallinn through Pärnu), Riga, Panevėžys, Kaunas to
the Lithuania/Poland state border (including a Kaunas – Vilnius spur) with a
design speed of 249km/h.

The railway line for both passenger and freight transport will be interoperable
with the TEN-T Network in the rest of Europe and competitive in terms of quality
with other modes of transport in the region. The Rail Baltica high-speed line
will include connections to 7 international railway passenger stations, 3
multimodal terminals, connections to airports and seaports, as well several
regional passenger stations, maintenance facilities and interfaces with the
existing 1520mm railway network, the rail gauge still in use in the Baltic
States.

### Multidisciplinary and international expertise to ensure successful deployment

Under the new contract, the engineering services team will undertake full
responsibility of the management of the project and will set up a project
management office, develop technical solutions and manage the implementation of
the works providing technical supervision of design, construction, system
integration, testing and commissioning, putting in operation and defect
notification period.

> Our goal is to provide a fully unified and interoperable solution of the
> Control-Command and Signalling system along the whole 870km Rail Baltica
> route, and to reach this target that we were looking for Systems Engineering
> Services with the technical expertise, experience and skills to manage the
> implementation of this sophisticated, interconnected and almost
> “state-of-the-art” Control-Command and Signalling solutions.
> Marc-Philippe El Beze, Chief Technical Officer and Member of the Management
> Board at RB Rail AS.

![jc_vollery_new](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/jc_vollery_new.jpg)

> SYSTRA is extremely delighted to support Rail Batica project, as this project
> will connect populations and improve connectivity across Europe, while
> providing great economic benefit and new standards of mobility in the three
> Baltic States.
> Jean-Charles Vollery, Chief Operating Officer at SYSTRA.

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