Closed the contract for the sale of Italo to the American Gip fund. Luca Cordero di Montenzemolo remains president while Flavio Cattaneo is confirmed in the role of managing director.
The announcement comes directly from Ntv which, through a note, also highlights that Montezemolo, Cattaneo, Giovanni Punzo, Isabella Seragnoli, Alberto Bombassei and the Peninsula fund "have reinvested in the purchasing vehicle company of Italo, Gip Neptune, subscribing to an increase capital for a total of 150 million, equal to 7,74% of the share capital".
Therefore completed the obligations leading to the sale of 100% of Italo to Global Infrastructures Partners (Gip), a fund that manages 40 billion dollars of assets managed in transport, energy, water and waste management, owner of the London airport of Gatwick, Equis Energy of Singapore and liquefied gas fields in India.
Immediately afterwards, during the Italo meeting, the new board of directors was also appointed "composed of Montezemolo (chairman), Cattaneo, Gianbattista La Rocca, Michael John McGhee, Philip Marc Iley, Andrew Harvey Gillespie-Smith and Mark Lawrence Levitt" . After the meeting, the new board of directors met and confirmed Montezemolo as president and appointed Cattaneo as CEO.
The numbers for 2017 are also known, archived with a fleet of 25 Alstom Agv 575 and 17 Alstom Evo trains (of which 12 will enter service by the summer of 2018 and the other five will be delivered in 2019), closed 2017 with 12,8 million travelers transported, up from 11,1 million in 2016, and a net result up to 33,8 million (32,7 million in 2016).
