(Finance) – “The PNRR has awarded the FS Group over 26 billion euros, making our company the largest contractor in the country”. Thus the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato Luigi Ferraris, intervening remotely at the International Business Exchange Conference, organized in New York by Newest Corporation.
“The funds included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, however, are not the only ones that our Group has dedicated to improving mobility – he specified Ferraris – we have defined an ambitious plan which envisages over 200 billion euros of investments over the next decade dedicated to reducing the infrastructure gap between the northern and southern areas of the country and strengthening interconnections between ports and airports, railway stations and freight terminals”.
In particular, we read about FS News.itthe Group’s information portal – 180 billion euros will be invested by the Infrastructure Hub, 18 billion euros from the passenger hub and almost 3 billion euros from the logistics hub, “to renew the terminals, logistics platforms and convoys”. Behind these numbers, according to Ferraris there are two precise objectives: “increase our rail transport capacity by 20% in ten years and double the share of goods traveling by train”.
Precise objectives with a sustainable impact. Furthermore, reliable and efficient shared transport can also prove effective for tourism, as highlighted by the CEO of FS “based on quality, capable of meeting growth expectations but taking into account respect for the delicate landscape and environmental balance, part of the surprising Italian heritage”.
FS’s commitment to modernize the country’s mobility, inoFurthermore, it is increasingly combined with a strong commitment towards international dimension with the aim of growing international revenues from 1.8 billion euros in 2019 to around 5 billion in 2031.