After three annual profit years, the net result in 2024 of the Italian State Railways group is back in negative territory and amounted to -208 million euro compared to a net profit of €100 million for the year previous. Operating revenues increased by +11.7% to €16.53 billion and a more pronounced increase in +13.6% was recorded by operating costs at 14.29 billion. Ebitda amounted to 2.24 billion (+0.6%) and operating profit at 343 million (+1.5%).

In the passenger transport segment alone, revenues totalled €8.19 billion (+10.1%), EBITDA €1.86 billion (+20.1%), EBIT 249 million (+135.9%) and operating profit 249 million euro (+179.8%).

In the freight transport sector, revenues marked a sharp increase of +19.3% to 1.33 billion euros led by the contribution from the TX Logistik Group (+€182 million) mainly due to the change in the scope of consolidation consolidation due to the acquisition of the Exploris group ( of 5 December 2023). The growth in operating costs, equal to 1.30 billion, was +18.9%. EBITDA was equal to 61 million (+1.7%). EBIT and operating profit were both of a negative sign and equal respectively to -73 million and -124 million against a negative result of -57 million and -90 million in 2023.

In 2024, the traffic of goods transported by companies of the FS group amounted to 22.9 billion tonne-km, up 8.6% compared to 2023, against a higher offer, expressed in train-km, equal to +11.7%. On the result - he specified the Italian group - had a positive impact on the entry in the scope of consolidation of the Exploris group, active in Germany, which has allowed the Mercitalia group to expand its network in Europe, even in a macroeconomic context that is still penalized by geopolitical tensions. Net of the acquisition of Exploris - the company specified - the freight business would have recorded a decrease of -9.2% in terms of tonne-km and -5.7% in terms of train-km.