TX Logistik, a German company controlled by Mercitalia Logistics of the Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) group, has finalized the acquisition of Exploris Deutschland Holding GmbH Hamburg, a company European rail freight transport, thus becoming the Germany's second largest rail freight operator. After the preliminary contract signed last July, the operation was completed finalized following the clearance of the authorities competent antitrust authorities.

With the closing of the agreement, the FS Logistics Hub is now present in 11 countries, including through its Exploris, including Via Cargo, HSL Logistik and Delta Rail. The Exploris' international rail connections, strongly oriented towards east-west transport, complete the TX network Logistik, already very present along the north-south European axis.

The operation thus allows the Logistics Hub to have a greater development of international business, integrating the two realities which together have a turnover of around 500 million euros and a total of over 1,000 people, bringing the total number of the Hub's total resources in Europe.

The network of services offered by Exploris is spread over eight Countries (Germany, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and Switzerland) with 12 direct connections. In addition the company offers railway shunting services in Germany and Poland and has its own training centre for the operational staff.

«Our playing field - Carlo Palasciano, chief international officer of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane group - not it stops at national borders but extends throughout Europe. The Closing the transaction makes us take great steps forward in terms of affirm the role that the Logistics Hub is carving out for itself as a European logistics operator. We have embarked on a path of growth to increase the volume of goods transported by train thanks to increasingly effective connections to both the national and to the European rail corridors, consolidating the integration of the sea-rail-road transport systems and providing an alternative road transport across Europe'.