BERLIN (GERMANY) (ITALPRESS) – “We are at the beginning of a new adventure, we are already working with the new team to build the industrial plan. We aim to recover a little time lost, we will define it by the end of the year so as not to waste time and relaunch our activity”. It is the announcement of the FS Group’s ad and general manager, Gianpiero Strisciuglio, at a press point in InnoTrans 2026, the leading international trade fair for transport technology in Berlin. In the new industrial plan “we will only take care of what is railway, which is our core business. Only projects that respect this logic will be developed, on the rest we will go in discontinuity regarding the past. The focus will be on the safety of passengers and workers, quality of the service, new connections and therefore investments on pre-arranged works and already started so that they are brought to an end”, he added. The new industrial plan of Fs, according to estimates, should be about 18-20 billion a year, of which 11-12 billion for railway infrastructure while the remaining on other items.
In 2025, in fact, Rfi closed with 11,6 billion investments on the total 18.3 of the entire FS Group. There have been several themes touched by the new Ad of the Group in its first international public release, from post-Pnrr investments to the international presence. “I can proudly say that we have achieved all the objectives” of the Pnrr, “for us it means that the Group is able to realize important investments and maintain temporal objectives. It is a great teaching that we bring home and gives us strength for the future, where the goal is to continue investing. We have the goal of maintaining the volume of investments, compatible with the available resources”, continued the ad who told of a series of meetings in Berlin “with the other players of the European railway system and not only. We are convinced that the Italian railway system is solid, it combines tradition, culture and innovation”. In addition, the next summer “we can start with the connections made with Frecciarossa from Milan to Monaco and then between Rome and Monaco. We start as cooperation, this is the first step, we are working very well.”.
“It is a cooperation that puts together engineering, quality of service, experience; it is a very important project – explained Strisciuglio -. We do not define the conditions of competition, we compete and the goal of Trenitalia is to confirm the presence on the Intercity segment. Trenitalia invested a lot on this business. We will assess the race conditions and compete to win all races.” Finally, the ad confirmed that “the ticket prices will not be increased”. On the first day of Fiera, also the visit of the deputypremier and minister of Infrastructures and Transports, Matteo Salvini, who has evidenced that the more than 200 Italian companies present are “a wealth in terms of turnover, innovation and image. Today we have 250 billion funded and open yards, Fs is making a huge effort throughout the country. My satisfaction is to hear colleagues from other countries saying that Italy from the transport and rail point of view is their point of reference. It is a great satisfaction. The Italian system as a whole is giving a great example to all the rest of Europe”.
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