(Finance) – The investment plan of the FS Group led by Luigi Ferraris. In today alone, RFI, leader of the FS Group’s Infrastructure Hubhas awarded four tenders by publishing a fifth, for a total value of approx 600 million euros. Investments aimed at strengthening the Italian railway network, partly coming from the funds of the PNRR which continues its march, considering that around 80% of the funds assigned to RFI are destined for works already in the construction phase. The FS Group is also the main beneficiary of the funds of the PNRR which, combined with those of the Complementary Fund, total approximately 26 billion euros, more than 24 for RFI.
The today’s races – reads on FS News, the Group’s information portal – concern various Italian regions, from the north to the south of the peninsula, from Piedmont, to Lombardy, from Lazio, to Sardinia, up to Sicily. Many times Ferraris he recalled how the railway infrastructures have an average age of about 60-70 years and the network therefore needs, in addition to constant maintenance, important investments (in the FS Plan they amount to about 180 billion between tracks and roads) to relaunch efficient and integrated collective and rail mobility, both on the passenger and freight side. Today’s awards alone raise a 10.4 billion euros the value of the tenders awarded in these first months of 2023. And, if we take into consideration the works awarded and the construction sites in progress, we rise to 34.5 billion.
In detail, the tender for the executive design and construction of the works for the burial of the line between Catania Acquicella and Bicoccain the Catania node, to the grouping of companies made up of Eteria Consorzio Stabile Scarl (lead partner), Euro Ferroviaria and Salcef. An integral part of the Palermo – Catania – Messina itinerary, its value is 370 million euros.
Also in the Lazio the tender for the executive design and construction of the works for the doubling of the Campoleone-Aprilia line was awarded to the group of companies made up of Zappa Benedetto (Parent Company) and Codimar for a value of over 45 million euros, also financed with PNRR funds and the Cohesion and Development Fund.
In Piedmont, on the other hand, the tender for the executive design and construction of the Torino San Paolo railway stop, on the S.Paolo-Orbassano line, was awarded to the group of companies made up of Rete Imaf 21 (parent company), SE.GE.CO and Cronos Railway Systems. The Turin contract has a value of over 8 million euros, also financed with PNRR funds. Activation is expected by 2026.
Finally, in Sardinia the tender for the executive design and execution of the works to speed up the San Gavino – Sassari – Olbia line with the Bauladu variant was awarded to Manelli Impresa. The tender has a value of over 82 million euros, also financed with the Development and Cohesion Fund (FSC).
In addition to the four awards, the publication of a new call for tenders for the construction of the new Computerized Central Apparatus (ACC) for the regulation of railway traffic in the Milano Centrale station. The contract has a value of over 74 million euros, also financed with PNRR funds. The new system, one of the highest technological level systems in the railway traffic management sector, is a real “control room” which makes the use of the infrastructure even more efficient by increasing the standards of regularity of train circulation.