FS chief says 200bn investments in Italy priority – English

(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 21 – Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) chief Luigi
Ferraris told the Financial Times Monday that its planned 200
billion euros of investments in Italy were its top priority over
the next 10 years.

   
Among the main objectives of FS’s industrial plan to 2033 “there
is the deployment of 200 billion of investments, 180 of which to
strengthen and modernize the railway and road infrastructures of
the country”, Ferraris told the British business daily.

   
Italy’s massive EU-funded post-COVID National Recovery and
Resilience Plan (NRRP), he recalled, entrusts the companies of
Ferrovie dello Stato with about 25 billion euros and identifies
rail network operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) as its
main contracting station.

   
Beyond the NRRP, Ferraris said, among the group’s other top
objectives is the increase in the “transport capacity of the
railway network by at least 20%”. (ANSA).