(Finance) – “In the next 5 years the FS group plans to invest over 60 billion euros on the development ofinfrastructure and its maintenance. Thirteen of these billions will come from the PNRR which sees us as the main implementing subject and whose objectives we will be able to achieve by June 2026 “. TheCEO of the FS Group Stefano Antonio Donnarumma He intervened in the transport commission of the Chamber of Deputies to take stock 100 billion euros, as required by the 2025-29 strategic plan presented in December.
“To date we have spent 12 billion of the 25 expected by the PNRR with most of the construction sites and many in the advanced phase. But our plan – underlined Donnarumma – goes far beyond the expiry of the PNRR and provides for the investment of over 100 billion euros in 5 years “.
As reported by FS News, to carry out the projects foreseen by the PNRR and the FS plan, today the Italian railway network is affected by a large number of construction sites which, as detected by the FS AM, “are leading to traffic congestion Also by virtue of the increase in trains in circulation, due to the growth of the number of passengers “. To remedy this situation, as Donnarumma explained, FS has already put in place a series of measures which allowed the month of January “to record a greater punctuality than the same period last year, with an average punctuality as the regional ones which is around 90% in the 5 minutes and an average punctuality of the AV of 80% in the 10 minutes”.
Precisely in relation to the relationship with travelers, Stefano Antonio Donnarumma recalled the launch of an information campaign that aims to transparency the changes to the circulation expected on some sections, due precisely to the construction sites and to underline “the great benefits that the mobility of the Country will know when the works are completed “. At the center of the railway objectives, the protection of the safety of FS and travelers also remains at the center of the railway objectives, also thanks to the FS Security company which with 1200 employees is collaborating “the reduction of the crimes and violence that we have been registering in recent months”.
Also with regard to the future, moreover, the CEO of FS, as reiterated already in the strategic plan 2025-29, has Illustrated the project to find new forms of funding for the company. “We want to identify a perimeter of strategic infrastructures (such as that of the AV) which can be financed not only by the public contribution, but also with Italian infrastructure funds (private or public) with the aim of increasing the company’s assets”.