(Finance) – “We will respect the deadlines of the Pnrr, of the 24 billion entrusted to RFI, over 83% is in fact already in the implementation phase”, thus Gianpiero Strisciuglio, managing director and general manager of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, at the conference “Innovation and sustainability, where the South goes”, organized in Bari by Ance Giovani, the association of young building entrepreneurs. An opportunity for discussion, between public and private – writes FS News, the information portal of the FS Group – in which institutional representatives also took part.
“Our industrial plan – he continued Squeeze – foresees, in ten years, 180 billion investments in railway and road infrastructures to improve mobility and, in particular, to bridge the gap between Northern and Southern Italy. But the future is already underway. As Polo Infrastrutture we have over 4,000 construction sites throughout Italy for 50 billion euros between new strategic works and maintenance of existing lines”. In this regard, the manager recalled the strategic importance of some works such as the Adriatic line, the Palermo-Catania -Messina, and, above all in consideration of the place of debate, the high-speed line between Bari and Naples.” Already next year we count on releasing the first works of the yard, which will allow the initial reduction in travel times, which will be completed in 2027, when it will take only 2 hours to connect Bari to Naples and three to get to Rome”.
In comparison with entrepreneurs thead of FRY also wanted to dwell on the theme of innovation and sustainability. “Not only do we promote increasingly intermodal transport that is close to the environment, but it is now a mantra for us, every time we deal with the territory it is essential to have a sustainable approach”. In this regard, Strisciuglio affirmed that the use of advanced technologies is helpful, such as the entry of new professionals, citing, as an example, the BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology, which is used in the executive design and construction phases and allows you to create a 4D and 5D model to monitor all phases of construction sites, including compliance with times and costs.
Squeeze proudly underlined (“today I go back to the places of my adolescence”) the investments of 80 billion euros of the Infrastructure Pole in the South, of which about 16 in Puglia. RFI’s commitment also continues “thanks to our 31,000 people, who will grow with 3,000 new hirings in the coming months. A team that increasingly focuses on young players and which has allowed us to lower the average age from 48 to 40 years. We invest in the generations of the future, we feel the obligation to combine the value of tradition, which the railway world brings with it, with the commitment to build new strategic works for the development of the country, like those of our predecessors”.