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East Coast Rail Link

The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is a 665-kilometer electrified passenger and freight railway under construction in Peninsular Malaysia, from Kota Bharu to Port Klang.

East Flood Canal

The East Flood Canal (Banjir Kanal Timur) is a 23.5-kilometer flood-control canal in eastern and northern Jakarta, Indonesia, built to divert floodwater from rivers east of the city to the Java Sea.

East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station

East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station is a captive coal-fired power station in Jimsar County, Xinjiang, China, supplying power and steam to East Hope's aluminum smelter since 2013.

East Indian Railway Company

The East Indian Railway Company was a British joint-stock railway company formed in London in 1845 that built the first railway in eastern India, from Calcutta toward Delhi.

East Japan Railway Company

East Japan Railway Company, known as JR East, is a Japanese passenger railway operator centered on Tokyo, created in 1987 through the privatization of Japanese National Railways.

East Java Gas Pipeline

The East Java Gas Pipeline (EJGP) is a natural gas pipeline in Indonesia, running from the Kangean Islands through the Madura Strait to Surabaya, operated by Pertamina Gas.

East Kentucky Power Cooperative

East Kentucky Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric utility in Winchester, Kentucky, that generates wholesale power for 16 member cooperatives serving over 1.2 million Kentuckians.

East Kutai Coal Mine

The East Kutai Coal Project is a proposed thermal coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, whose licenses were revoked in 2010 and no coal was ever mined.

East Midlands Airport

East Midlands Airport, also known as Nottingham East Midlands Airport, is an international airport at Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England, and the UK's busiest airport for dedicated freighter cargo.

East Midlands Railway

East Midlands Railway, the trading name of Transport UK East Midlands Limited, is a British train operator running London St Pancras to East Midlands services since 2019.

East Palestine train derailment

The East Palestine train derailment was a February 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, followed by a controlled burn of vinyl chloride.

East River Generating Station

East River Generating Station is a Con Edison cogeneration plant on the East River at 14th Street in Manhattan, producing electricity and steam and repowered with gas turbines in 2005.

East Side Access

East Side Access, the MTA's subway extension for the Long Island Rail Road, connects Queens to the new Grand Central Madison terminal beneath Grand Central, opened in 2023.

East Side Big Pipe

The East Side Big Pipe is a combined sewer overflow storage tunnel on Portland, Oregon's east riverbank, finished in 2011 as the city's largest sewer project.

East Tennessee Natural Gas

East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) is an interstate natural gas pipeline system owned and operated by Enbridge, running 1,526 miles across Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.

East Texas Oil Field

The East Texas Oil Field, discovered by the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well in 1930, is the largest oil reservoir in the contiguous United States, producing nearly 5.2 billion barrels from northeast Texas.

East West Gas Pipeline (India)

The East West Gas Pipeline is a 1,375 km natural gas pipeline from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Bharuch in Gujarat, and the first pipeline in India to use 48-inch pipe.

East West Rail

East West Rail is a United Kingdom railway project rebuilding a direct passenger link between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes and Bedford, reviving the old Varsity Line.

East-West Airlines (India)

East-West Airlines was a private Indian airline based in Mumbai, operating from 1992 to 1996 as India's first scheduled private carrier under the 1991 Open Sky policy.

East-West Gas Pipeline (Turkmenistan)

The East-West gas pipeline (Turkmen: Gündogar-Günbatar) is a 773-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Turkmenistan, running from the Shatlyk compressor station to Belek on the Caspian side, opened in December 2015.

East-West Tie Limited Partnership

East-West Tie Limited Partnership is an Ontario limited partnership that owns the East-West Tie Line, a 450-kilometer, 230-kilovolt transmission line between Wawa and Thunder Bay, completed in 2022.

East-west traffic

East-west traffic is server-to-server network traffic inside a data center, as opposed to north-south traffic that crosses between the data center and the outside world.

East–West Crude Oil Pipeline

The East–West Crude Oil Pipeline, commercially known as Petroline, is a 1,200-kilometer Saudi Arabian pipeline from Abqaiq to Yanbu, allowing crude exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

Eastern Air Lines

Eastern Air Lines, also known as Eastern Air Transport, was a major American airline based in Miami, founded in 1927 as Pitcairn Aviation, that ceased flights in 1991 after a strike and bankruptcy.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 212

Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed near Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 11, 1974, killing 72 of the 82 people aboard.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 401

Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a New York to Miami flight that crashed into the Everglades on December 29, 1972, killing 101 of 176 aboard.

Eastern Airways

Eastern Airways, legally Air Kilroe Limited, was a British regional airline based at Humberside Airport, founded in 1997, which suspended operations in October 2025 and entered liquidation.

Eastern Coalfields

Eastern Coalfields Limited is an Indian coal-mining company, a wholly owned Coal India subsidiary set up in 1975, headquartered at Sanctoria, West Bengal, operating mines in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Eastern Extension telegraph cables in East Asia and the Philippines

The Eastern Extension telegraph cables were British-controlled submarine telegraph lines operated from the 1870s, linking Hong Kong with Shanghai, the Philippines, Indochina, and Borneo until the company's absorption in 1974.

Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage System (EGTS)

Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage System (EGTS) is an interstate natural gas transmission and storage company, operating nearly 4,000 miles of pipeline and one of the largest underground storage systems in the United States.