"The investments of the FS group in the next 10 years will affect the National GDP for 2% and, with 200 billion euros, they will serve to make collective and freight transport by train increasingly attractive and efficient, increasing the transport capacity of the railway network by at least 20% and the number of passengers by 30%. The managing director of the FS Group said so Luigi Ferraris from the stage of the Rimini Meeting. The number one of the Italian railways also underlined the Group's role in the new Italian season of infrastructures, for whose development, as specified by Ferraris, about 300 thousand people a year are involved as part of the National recovery and resilience planBut not only.
Speaking at the round table Infrastructures and Pnrr: which development for Italy, Ferraris reaffirmed the commitment of FS to invest over the next 10 years 200 billion euros for modernize and upgrade infrastructure which have an average life of over 60 years. Investments that will have a direct impact on the growth of the national GDP. “And they carry with them 200-300 thousand workers between direct and indirect. So the effect on the economy is definitely relevant. The works are located throughout the territory from North to South and therefore it is clear that the impact is also and above all on local economies”. "This - concluded Ferraris - is certainly an aspect that allows the country to be able to leverage this new wave of infrastructure to support GDP growth".
Ferraris (ad Fs): "Strengthening dialogue between universities and businesses"
For this reason, according to Ferraris, it is increasingly important to strengthen the dialogue between the world of university and that of companies. "To this end, we signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Education and Merit for the construction of an integrated professional training chain".
Therefore, new professionalism and skills are needed to contribute, according to Ferraris, to the strengthening of the country's infrastructures which must focus on intermodality and the integration of means of transport on both the passenger and freight sides.
Innovation at the center
All by focusing on innovation, with the development of digitized platforms to favor the integration between different means of transport and also the monitoring and maintenance of infrastructures which, underlined the CEO Ferraris, “must be built and kept reliable and efficient. For their extraordinary maintenance we have decided with the Ministry not to block the lines to reduce inconvenience and thus give continuity to the service".
