(Finance) – Increase the share of goods transported through railroad. It is one of the most ambitious objectives of European policies in terms of sustainable growth. A purpose also shared by Group FSthat with the birth of the Logistics hub in the next ten years it intends to double the percentage of goods transported by trains, which is currently stuck at 11%.
As reported by FS News, he recalled this Gianpiero SqueezeCEO of Mercitalia Logisticsthe lead company of the FS Group Logistics Pole, within the context of conference “The infrastructural development of the country. The choices of the economic world”organized in Rome by Unioncamere And Uniontransport and dedicated to the theme of infrastructures, investments, the logistical needs of companies. “Our ten-year Business Plan is strongly focused on logistics”, highlighted Strisciuglio who then added that “the challenge of doubling the share of goods transported by train is very important, but to achieve it we must regain competitiveness, focusing everything on transport intermodality ”.
Intervened in the context of Table roundabout “Railways and Intermodality of transport”, Strisciuglio recalled the “resilience demonstrated by rail transport in the most acute phases of contraction in demand, such as that of pandemic from Covid-19″ and underlined that “to promote the transition of goods from road to rail, from road to rail, we need to focus on greater integration between the different modes of transport right from the stage of their planning”.
Railway, therefore, but not only. And just to underline the importance of intermodality among the various transport systems, he also spoke on the first day of the conference organized by Unioncamere and Uniontrasporti Aldo Isi, managing director of ANAS, a company of the FS Group. “We closed 2022 with 4.6 billion races“, Isi said in his speech. “In the coming years – he added – we foresee a very ambitious investment plan, which we have shared with the FS group, which has 50 billion euros in 10 years”.
To reach the finish line of the switches modal in fact, it is essential to also focus on infrastructural modernization. He knows it well Italian railway networkthe leader of the FS Group’s Infrastructure Polo, engaged from north to south of Italy in the construction of the works included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The President of RFI presented them at the conference organized by Unioncamere and Uniontrasporti Anna Masutti. “Within the framework of the PNRR and not only, we are taking action to reduce bottlenecks on the main routes, also focusing on strengthening connections with Ports and Terminals and on infrastructural developments as regards the last and penultimate mile”, he specified to the President of the lead company of the Infrastructure Pole of the FS Group.
The objective, again according to what was specified by President Masutti, is that of “reaching a complete adaptation of the railway network by 2030-31, focusing heavily on digitizationas demonstrated by the ERTMS installation plan”, the digital signaling system which favors interoperability between operators railways and the passage of a greater number of trains, which RFI aims to install throughout the network by 2036
The two-day conference in Rome was closed by the speech of the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Edward Rixi who underlined the importance of infrastructure for the country’s change of pace.