FS Italian has grouped all the societies of the group engaged in the transport goods and the logistics in Polo Mercitalia



Today Italian Railroads of the State (FS Italian) has introduced Polo Mercitalia in which the societies of the group are grouped all already engaged in the field of the transport goods and the logistics, that is the group leader subholding Mercitalia Logistics, specialized in the valorization of the real estate assets to logistic destination and in activity of integrated logistics, Mercitalia Rail, the greater Italian railway enterprise goods, Group TX Logistik, second the greater railway enterprise goods in Germany, assets in numerous European Countries, Cemat, the greatest operator of the transport arranged in Italy and the third party in Europe, Mercitalia Transport & Services, specialized in i services of transport on rubber and logistics to added value, Mercitalia Terminal, one of the greater managers of intermodal terminals in Italy, TerAlp (AlpTransit Terminal), specialized in the realization of terminalistiche infrastructures the vanguard, and TLF, society for the commercialization of services of logistics in France.

Polo Mercitalia, that it is operating from January 2017 and he develops a turnover of about a billion of euros per year, occupies 4,000 assigned and has a fleet of about 600 locomotori and 26 thousand cars, have the task to reorganize and to throw again the business goods of the Italian group FS developing to solutions integrated of transport goods and logistics that afford to value the railway modality heading to reach the profit in 2018 and the doubling of the revenues in ten years (from the billion turnover in 2016 to beyond two billions in 2026).

Polo Mercitalia previews in Industrial Plan 2017-2026 investments for 1,5 billion euros: beyond a billion for the rotabile material, 100 million for the intermodal terminals (previewed new systems to Milan, Brescia and Piacenza) in axis with the Gottardo and Core corridor the Rhine-Alps (Genoa-Rotterdam), 100 million for information the technology and safety and about 250 million in acquisitions of companies in order to expand the business. FS Italian has emphasized that draft of the more meaningful total investment that the group has never made in the field.

FS Italian has specified that a particular attention will be dedicated to throws again of the international activities that have the point of force in TX Logistik, the society of the Pole with base in Germany that aims at to become cost/quality leader in the services of railway traction, from and for Italy, on the great European Cores corridor of transalpine traffic goods.

Moreover the Italian railway group has announced that already it is started I renew of the rotabile material, with Mercitalia Rail that has undersigned two contracts of chartering full hand maintenance for 20 new locomotives electrical workers. Moreover, between some day it will be started jointly by Mercitalia Rail and from TX Logistik the iter in order to acquire in the next few years until 125 new locomotives electrical workers it is for the domestic market is for that European.

"The Country - the minister of Infrastructures has commented and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, taking part to the presentation - needs ecological carrying out and the logistics is a key factor". The minister has remembered the initiatives of the government in order to increase the volume of goods transported on track: "we have made - it has explained - a total strategic plan that it upgrades the connections within the ports of the railroad that upgrades the alpine passes with the investments on the great tunnels of Brenner and the Third Pass. We have put also the fiscal incentives: the iron bonus and the sea bonus. This means less pollution, ecological carrying out for definitive Italy".