Consolidated revenues up 14%, closing 2022 with a profit, and an overall increase of over 40% in passengers on trains compared to 2021, with peaks of 110% for high-speed ones. The indications of the are excellent FS Group pending the year-end balance, announced by the managing director of the Ferrovie dello Stato Luigi Ferraris on the occasion of the exchange of greetings with the press in Rome Tiburtina station.
The good ones 2022 results they were achieved “thanks to a contained pricing policy, despite the increase in the cost of energy. We have thus managed to absorb the price increases thanks to the increase in passengers and we will close in profit in terms of consolidated even without the Covid contributions received last year", said the CEO.
FS Group: good results in 2022, we hope to repeat them in 2023
According to Ferraris, the country “is gradually returning to normal. It has been a very important and positive year for us - he added - which comes after a dramatic period that we have all experienced, with the pandemic, with effects added to those of the ongoing war, with increases in materials of up to 40- 50%. On the front of infrastructure we are marching according to schedule meeting deadlines, we are launching a significant amount of tenders, we are making investments. We are proceeding with great commitment and great enthusiasm”.
E for 2023? The hope is to replicate the good results achieved in 2022 "with all the critical issues that may still be linked to the persistence of the war and the high level of inflation, however it sees a consolidation of the use of the train, and gives us hope".
Ferraris on the privatization of Ita: "We are not competent to manage aircraft"
“We are interested in air transport from a commercial point of view, as an integration, for example, of tickets between air and rail. The means of transport must speak. But we do not have the skills to manage aircraft". This is what the managing director of FS, Luigi Ferraris, said in response to a question on the interest in the ITA privatization dossier.
