The German railway group Deutsche Bahn has signed a agreement to sell to private equity firm I Squared Capital, the European passenger transport company Arriva, which operates both rail and tram services as well as buses and seas. Arriva has joined the group DB in 2010. The sale will include all assets Arriva's operations in ten European markets, including Italian.

Deutsche Bahn explained that with the sale of Arriva, which Up to now, it has been managing the transport of DB activities outside the Germany, the German group will focus on the growth of the national rail transport by concentrating its resources on the its core business. "Deutsche Bahn's strategic objective - specified Levin Holle, member of the Board of Directors for Finance & Logistics & Group Chief Financial Officer - is to achieve a record level of investment in railways environmentally-friendly companies in our core business segment combined with the government's massive increases in investment in our German railway infrastructure'

In 2022, DB had already divested its It arrives in Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Sweden. Second the forecasts, the sale of the remaining assets to I Squared will be completed over the next year. In Italy, where it employs about 3,500 people, Arriva opera mainly urban and suburban bus services. In northern regions and shuttle services with Turin airports and Milan.