All about Gts Holding, the company that owns the freight train derailed in Florence

21 April 20231 year ago babelfish

The convoy that derailed in the night in Florence belongs to Gts holding. Here's what it does

Last night a freight train derailed in Firenze Castello station. The convoy was carrying containers that went off the tracks in the section between Sesto Fiorentino and Firenze Castello. The inconvenience to traffic has spread throughout the Tyrrhenian ridge with delays and cancellations. The firefighters intervened at 3.15 this night and a crane lifted the convoy off the tracks. The trains started running again, gradually and accumulating great delays, only after 11.30 in the morning.

THE DERAILED CONVOY IS FROM GTS HOLDING

The convoy that came off the tracks belongs to Gst Holding and was carrying containers with fruit, mineral stones and soaps. The container, although damaged, has not released its contents. “We are very sorry for the inconveniences that have arisen” – said the CEO of Gts Spa Alessio Muciaccia in a statement – we are available to verify the reasons for the accident. Our services will resume regularly starting tomorrow. The train tilted and damaged electricity pylons, causing traffic to stop with delays of up to 180 minutes and slowdowns on the Milan-Rome, Venice-Rome high-speed line and on the Florence-Prato-Viareggio regional line. The train accident did not cause any casualties or injuries, only the infrastructure was damaged.

THE FOUR COMPANIES OF GTS HOLDING

The company's headquarters are in Bari, but there are also branches in the United Kingdom, in Hull, and in the Netherlands, in Rotterdam. The board of directors of the holding is made up of the CEO Alessio Muciaccia and the directors Nicola Muciaccia, Michael Dedieu and Alessandra Boscaino.

The holding, which employs a total of 177 people, has four companies within it:

GTS Logistic, which deals with the intermodal transport of goods by road, rail and sea;
GTS Rail, the railway company of the GTS Spa group in business since 2008;
RAIL Service, which deals with the maintenance and repairs of railway trains;
SGL sas, a company in the logistics, distribution and road transport of dangerous goods, especially fuels.

GTS HOLDING DATA

2021 was economically profitable for the GTS Group . The 2021 financial year has ended
with a Group profit of 15,058,902 euros. In 2021, the overall value of production generated by the Group amounted to 147,163,211 euros, an improvement of 18.23% compared to 2020, when it had reached 124,463,986 euros. “The data on the growth of production volumes is the result of the many investments made by the Group in the last four years – reads the company report -. The validity of these choices is confirmed by the analysis of the deviations relating to the period 2018-2021, which reveal how the Group has increased its ability to generate wealth by around 42%”.

As stated in the financial statements, total revenues for 2021 amount to 129,373,505 divided as follows:

in Italy 77,811,493 euros;
in Europe 31,371,938 euros;
and in non-EU countries 20,190,074 euros.

The company therefore has a mainly national perimeter, and in 2021 increased revenues attributable to commercial operations with national partners by 32.05%. However, again in 2021, the Group increased the volume of trade with EU and non-EU operators by a value of +4.17% and 4.61% respectively.

PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO GTS HOLDING

The company's report states that in 2021, the GTS Group benefited from the incentives promoted by the Italian government as part of the "Ferrobonus" project and from a contribution disbursed by the Ministry of Infrastructure and sustainable mobility with the aim of supporting companies exposed to critical issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

COMMUNICATE FROM THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT MATTEO SALVINI

The Department of Infrastructure and Transport also intervened on the matter. “The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Matteo Salvini is following the story with the utmost attention, also to prevent similar situations from recurring in the future – reads a note from MIT -. In the Florence junction there is a problem linked to the presence of normal tracks close to the high-speed ones, a situation that will be solved by an underpass whose work will start in May”.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/tutto-su-gst-trasporti-azienda-proprietaria-del-treno-merci-deragliato-a-firenze/ on Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:24:50 +0000.