We present the current status of Abu-MaTran (http://www.abumatran.eu), a 4-year project (January 2013-December 2016) on rapid development of machine translation for underresourced languages. It is funded under Marie Curie's Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways 2012 programme. This is a consortium-based project with 5 partners (4 academic and 1 industrial).