In the first half of this year, the group's operating revenues Italian State Railways have passed the threshold of eight billion euros having amounted to the record value of 8.02 billion, with an increase of +13.2% over the first half of 2023. Operating costs, with 7.01 billion, recorded a increase of +14.8%. Gross operating margin and profit up operating at €1.01 billion (+3.4%) and €109 billion respectively million euros (+10.1%). FS Italiane has archived the first half of 2024 with a net loss of -199 million compared to a profit of four million in the first six months of last year.

In the first half of 2024, the group's Logistics Hub alone Italian railway company, with Mercitalia Logistics as the parent company of Polo, totalled record operating revenues of €669 million of euro (+13.0%) and operating costs of €651 million (+15.6%). EBITDA was €18 million (-37.9%). EBIT and result were both negative and equal respectively to -42 million and -65 million euros compared to both items of sign negative for -28 million and -43 million in the first half of the year 2023.

As for the operational performance of the Logistics Hub, in the first six months of this year, the total freight traffic handled was amounted to 9.79 billion tonne-km (-11.5%), of which a traffic of 4.58 billion tonne-km (-15.9%) handled abroad, this compared to a production of 20.8 million train-km (-8.3%), of which 9.5 million (-9.0%) were abroad.