On 29 December 2018, the first new fast-speed passenger train was commissioned the Azerbaijani Railways CJSC from the Baku Railway Station along the route Baku - Ganja - Baku.

The first passengers of the new train were deputies of the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan and representatives of media. The guests were accompanied by Javid Gurbanov, Chairman of Azerbaijani Railways CJSC.

In accordance with the decision of Session V of the International Conference on the adoption of the text of the Convention on Direct International Railway Traffic (19-23 November 2018, Warsaw, Republic of Poland), its VI-th Session was held in Warsaw from 25 till 29 March 2019.

The Railway of Moldova has named GE Transportation as the winner of a contract to supply 12 General Electric locomotives to operate passenger and freight services. The 2982-kW diesel locomotives are scheduled to be delivered from early 2020.

One of the largest private transport and logistics companies in Russia - the FESCO Transport Group - and the South Korean company Hyundai Glovis have launched a regular container service from the port of Busan to St. Petersburg via Vladivostok. Previously, goods from the Republic of Korea were delivered along the route through the Suez Canal, which took about 40 days. Due to the joint regular container service, goods from the port of Pusan to St. Petersburg with reloading onto the railway transport in Vladivostok will be delivered almost three times faster.

On 16 November 2918, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, as part of his visit to the city of Sumgayit, participated in the solemn ceremony devoted to the opening of a new railway station complex. Head of State, Ilham Aliyev cut the ribbon, thereby having symbolized the official opening of the complex.

On 14 January 2019, the OSJD Committee hosted a meeting between the delegations of the Republic of Korea headed by the Ms. Kim Hyun-mee, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Ms. Sun Mira, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, which included representatives of the Ministry, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Poland, KORAIL and other South Korean transport companies, on the one hand, and the OSJD Committee headed by its Chairman Tadeusz Szozda, Deputy Chairman Mikhail Vsevolozhskiy, Secretary Attila Kiss, who included chairmen/chairperson and specialists of the OSJD Commissions and Permanent Working Groups.

On 18 July 2018, a train loaded with flour was sent from the station of Kostanai along the route through the territories of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Afghanistan.

Higher efficiency of work while maintaining the highest safety standards, shortening the ing on the tracks and stops over some of them. delivery time and simplifying sampling - this will be provided for PKP LHS by a new investment in the form of a mobile phyto-sanitary control system, which has just been commissioned at the Hrubieszów LHS station. This venture is a part of the investment process resulting from the creation of the New Silk Road.

On 24 May 2018 the populated area of Beskid in the Carpathians (Ukraine) witnessed an opening ceremony and putting into operation of a double-track Beskid railway tunnel.

On 22-23 October 2018, in Moscow, on the basis of the Russian University of Transport (RUT/ MIIT) , the OSJD International Conference "Training in the field of railway transportation: new challenges and opportunities for the growth of professional competencies" took place.