All foreign routes of Italian Railways
With Ukraine and the Baltic countries, the scope of international operations of the Ferrovie Italiane group has just been extended to the east. Here is the updated map of the foreign activities of the Italian FS led by the CEO Gianfranco Battisti
World Mission for the Fs Italiane group.
With Ukraine and the Baltic countries, the scope of international operations of the FS Italiane group has just been extended to the east.
Here are the details on the foreign expansion of the group, the international map of activities and the prospects in the world of the high-speed model.
OBJECTIVES AND NUMBERS OF FS
Not just services, for FS, in the world. Design, construction management, certification, Operation & Maintenance, trains, stations and intermodal hubs: these are the business sectors from which FS Italiane earns 1.8 billion euros, equal to approximately 14% of total turnover.
EUROPE MISSION
Fs Italiane, led by Gianfranco Battisti, considers Europe as its reference domestic market, where the fourth railway package that liberalizes the railway market has been in force since the end of 2020. This means that any European railway company can apply for access to another Community market in order to compete with the national operator. Almost simultaneously, the European Parliament gave the green light to the celebrations for the European Year of Railways in 2021. The sustainability of Von der Leyen's Green New Deal and the climate-friendly recovery therefore pass along the rails.
THE FRECCIAROSSA IN SLOVENIA
Among the activities in Europe, Trenitalia's next high-speed stop could be Slovenia. Although still an embryonic project, a discussion table has been launched with Slovenian railways that would like to bring a European excellence of rail transport to their territory: the Frecciarossa.
NEWS FROM FS IN UKRAINE
In recent days, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Ukrainian Railways relating to the development of the high-speed line of about 900 kilometers that from Odessa will reach the border with the EU, via Kiev and Lviv. Ukrainian Railways are looking for world-class companies that can carry out studies and design of the line.
THE ROLE OF ITALFERR
Among the candidates to play the role of designer is Italferr, the engineering company of the FS Italiane Group which has just won the 30 million euro contract to support the electrification activities of 870 kilometers of the new high-speed Rail line. Baltic. “This is the most impressive electrification plan planned in Europe that connects Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the European continent”, underlines the FS Italiane group. Rail Baltica is managed by the intergovernmental agency Rb Rail As with a total investment of 5.8 billion euros, 85% of which is financed by the EU.
THE COMMENT OF BAPTISTS
"Despite the health emergency underway all over the world, FS Italiane's activity in the markets has never stopped", said Gianfranco Battisti, CEO of FS Italiane: "We are proud to be able to export our skills to the world and the know-how for the realization of projects and the activation of services that will contribute to the sustainable economic development of the countries in which we are present ".
WHAT TRENITALIA WILL DO IN SPAIN
Trenitalia (FS Italiane Group), in partnership with the Spanish operator Air Nostrum, has already taken its first significant steps in this sense by winning the Madrid – Barcelona, Madrid – Valencia / Alicante and Madrid – Malaga / Seville routes in Spain with a number of daily connections up to 84 trips in total. Twenty-three brand new Frecciarossa 1000s will whiz on the Spanish tracks: they are in fact under construction in the Italian plants of Hitachi Rail and Bombardier Transportation Italy, guaranteeing a strong economic and employment induced for the country's industrial sector.
THE HIGH SPEED MODEL
It is a question of exporting a model, that of the Italian high speed, which in its little more than 10 years of existence has not only already crossed paths with a competitor (the only country in the world where a private operator competes in the high-speed market segment speed) but above all the life of Italians has revolutionized the country. Over 350 million passengers transported in 10 years on Trenitalia's high-speed trains, 20 million tons of greenhouse gases less emitted into the atmosphere in 2019, thanks to an increasing number of people who prefer the train to other means of transport more pollutants. The high speed also saved us time: 18.5 million hours in 2019 alone (about 60 minutes per passenger) compared to the same round trip made in 2009.
THE ACTIVITY OF FS IN GREECE
FS Italiane has been present for some years in Greece, where high-speed trains will start operating in the spring when the Athens – Thessaloniki HS line will be inaugurated. An infrastructure comparable to Rome – Milan in importance in the country. The 100% owned transport company of Trenitalia is the main railway company in Greece and will begin to provide a mirror service to the Italian one.
THE ROLE OF FS IN FRANCE
The other major European market under observation is France. Tests are underway for homologation for circulation on the French tracks of the Frecciarossa 1000. The liberalization of the railway market in France is attractive for several railway companies, especially in the connections from Milan to Paris via Lyon.
HOW FS WORKS IN GERMANY
In Germany FS operates with Netinera (acquired 100% by Trenitalia in 2020) which operates on the liberalized market of regional trains and in the freight sector with TX Logistik. In the Netherlands, FS controls Qbuzz, the country's third largest public transport operator.
CHAPTER GREAT BRITAIN FOR FS
In the UK, in partnership with First Group, it manages rail services between London – Edinburgh / Glasgow and the company c2c for local transport between London and Essex.
THE PERSPECTIVES IN EUROPE
Finally, a new high-speed model will also have to involve goods with the development of the four European TEN-T corridors that will allow Italy to integrate with Europe, increasingly attributing to our country the role of a crossroads of exchange with the South-Western Europe and the Eastern Countries, with undisputed advantages for the economy of the Italian system.
FS IN THE WORLD
The market for the construction of railway infrastructures, according to the UIC, is worth over two trillion euros with 1,500 projects worldwide. Italferr and FS International are mainly the companies of the FS Italiane Group that have obtained contracts in various parts of the globe, always with the aim of exporting know-how in the design and management of railway systems. Here are some examples.
THE FS GROUP MAP
FS Italiane, through the company FS International, manages the Operation & Maintenance (O&M) services of the Riyadh metro (lines 3, 4, 5 and 6) in Saudi Arabia for a period of 12 years with a contract value for FS of over 800 million euros. FS International also manages the Operation & Maintenance (O&M) services of the High Speed Rail Linking 3 Airports in Thailand for which it has just signed the Preliminary Service Agreement and created the FS Thai company for operations in the country. The line, about 220 km, will connect the three main Thai airports (Don Muang Airport, Suvarbabhumi Airport and U-Tapao Airport), the contract is worth around one billion euros.
FROM COLOMBIA TO INDIA
Italferr, the railway engineering company of the FS Italiane Group, manages projects in Colombia such as the supervision of the works of Line 1 of the Bogotá metro, in consortium with other international companies, for a value of over 50 million euros. Italferr, in partnership with the Spanish company Typsa, was also awarded the design and supervision of works for the Kanpur and Agra metro lines, two of the largest industrial cities in Northern India. The contract, signed with Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC), has a duration of five years and a total value of over 43 million euros, Italferr's share over 19 million euros.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/fs/ on Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:22:06 +0000.